Sim racing as a training tool

Rebuilding Your Self-Belief

Rebuild Your Self-Belief

Rebuilding your self-belief, especially when things go wrong, is critical to your success as a race driver. This week on the Racecraft & Race Cars Roundup I cover this and more. In addition to advice on rebuilding your self-belief you will find more helpful racecraft tips, advice on how to measure for a race helmet … Read more

Austrian Royal Rebel Aiming to Revolutionize Driver Development

Ferdinand Habsburg

An Austrian Royal rebel who is aiming to revolutionize driver development highlights this issue of the Driver Development Roundup. You will also find possible opportunities in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB Junior program and the MX-5 Cup in the USA, Ferrari Development Academy news, an electric racing school event for rookie drivers and how sim … Read more

Developing the Next Generation of French Race Drivers

Developing the Next Generation of French Race Drivers

This week I look at the efforts being used in developing the next generation of French race drivers, an approach that has produced great results so far. I also bring you the first four drivers selected for the 2023 Ferrari Driver Academy, why F1 drivers think that sim racing is a less expensive alternative to … Read more

Boosting Your Cognitive Performance and More Driver Development Advice

AMR Driver Academy

Tips on boosting your cognitive performance are just one part of this week’s jam-packed Driver Development News & Racecraft Tips & Techniques roundup. I also look at how a sim racer is applying his sim racing skills to real world racing in the GB4 Championship, how you can grab the attention of motorsport talent scouts, … Read more

What You Need to Be a Professional Race Driver

Porsche 963

What do you need to be a professional race driver? This week in Driver Development News & Racecraft Tips & Techniques you will find out what it is. Along with this there are plenty of racecraft tips that range from how to heel and toe to autocross tips. In driver development news there are details … Read more

What Skills are Transferable from Sim Racing to Motorsport?

Ash Vandelay

What skills are transferable from sim racing to motorsport? This is often answered in the From Sim Racing to the Real Thing section of my Sim Racing and Esports News Roundup and has prompted a discussion and debate that I discuss this week. While Scott McLaughlin and Dale Earnhardt Jr agree on the benefits of … Read more

Racecraft & Driver Development News, Tips & Techniques for June 6, 2022

Todd Lamb on Track

This week in Racecraft & Driver Development News, Tips & Techniques I have a bumper crop of information for you. In Racecraft, I have 10 tips to improve your racecraft from Todd Lamb, why Daniel Ricciardo has embraced sim racing as a training tool, fitness tips for when you are traveling and more. In Driver … Read more