Training program

I am always looking for improving my training and also the preparation of my races. Objective : losing less time in order to every minute to be used wisely. I know guys who make hundreds and hundreds of laps to perfect each setup, but is it really effective? And before you even think configuration, don't you have to try to improve your way of driving ? I prefer for my part, to build and to live a real career and to not spend too much time on testing.

As always, I did research on the Internet to find training programs, but there are as many ideas as drivers, and nothing like a good recipe established.

And it was during my reading (yes, I think any driver, even virtual, should also tremendously read and study away from the wheel, but this is only my opinion), devoted to real racers works , I found out how they worked. This is especially the book signed by Alain Prost and Pierre-Francois Rousselot, released in 1989 by Editions Robert Laffont, which gave me what I think is the right information. It is said, on the warm-up for example, page 134 that : "Can be considered that this is the only time of testing in which the car is subject to actual conditions of the grand prix. If options of settings different from those of official trials were selected for the test, it will be that during the warm-up that we can adapt and check. It will be, for these final adjustments, the only session of tests ".

I understood well what to do in each race preparation session, to which I added a few steps.

Here is my ideal program of training and preparation:

- Driving school (30 minutes), to (re) discover the basic trajectory, which I will then evolve as we saw in a previous article, in order to override to really win. I recall that it has become almost an obligation for a real driver to work on the simulator before attacking the preparation of the race,

- Time Trial (30 minutes), to face my ghost and therefore pick the right path, the good points of braking and reacceleration that will help me to exceed my times,

- Free Practice (limited to the allotted time, either in the simulator or in the real), to prepare the qualifications. This is where I work the setup in order to get the best position on the grid,

- Qualifications,

- Warm-up, to prepare the car in Race mode. Tires changed, tank filled with the amount of fuel needed to cover my race (or the relay), I slightly change the setup to find a compromise between car loaded and good behavior once tires used and gasoline consumed,

- Race.

This will necessarily evolve over time, but I think I'm on the right track.

The Rookie.