On this week’s episode, Danny and I discuss his background as a driver and his motorsport business, Hankook Motorsports. We talk everything tires and tackle how to find the right tire pressure for your car, how to use tire temperature, whether tires are directional or not, heat cycles, and how driving styles affect tires!
Danny van Dongen is a Dutch racing driver and entrepreneur, currently competing in the MW-V6 Pickup Series.
Danny’s speed secret: Feel what the tires are doing and adapt your driving to them.
Check these out to follow Danny:
https://hankookmotorsports.com
@hankookmotorsports
@dannyvandongen
On this week’s episode, Chris Andrews joins me to discuss how driving styles impact the handling of a car, different car setups for oval and road racing, the best passing zones at Watkins Glen, and the best books to read to learn about the best car setup and engineering. Also, a special treat, Chris shares hilarious stories about Dale Earnhardt (including what he says at a urinal).
Chris's speed secret: Never stop learning.
Check these out to follow Chris:
Web: www.tcaellc.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tcaengineeringllc/
On this week’s episode, David Williams joins me to talk about how sim racing can make you a better track day driver or racer. We dive deep to discuss Virtual Racing School, how being a pro sim racer works (where does the money come from?!), dealing with a lack of sensory input from the sim, sensing the limit in a sim, the accuracy of car setups in the sim, brain neuroplasticity and adapting to sims and real cars. Oh, and David offers sim coaching services.
David’s speed secret: Be deliberately willing to push beyond your ability in measured amounts.
David is an Avid motorsport enthusiast with 13 years of experience and success across multiple sims with VRS Coanda Simsport. He’s a hardware design engineer & racing coach for Virtual Racing School and a multiple race driver competition finalist including the 2012 GT Academy.
Check these out to follow David:
Twitter: @CoandaDave
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidWilliamsRacing
Virtual Racing School: https://virtualracingschool.com
Niels Heusinkveld: https://www.youtube.com/user/niels007007
On this week’s episode, Adam Jabaay joins me to discuss the best stories from the Slip Angle podcast, everything Gridlife, and eSports and sim racing. He also shares how he manages time between racing, family, and business – and where to sneak sleep in!
Adam is a club racer in SCCA, NASA and Lemons, a HPDE instructor, and one of the organizers of the Gridlife events. He’s also a co-host, along with Austin Cabot, on the Slip Angle podcast; in addition, they have the TrackTuned.com blog.
Adam’s speed secret: Work harder on your driving than you want to work.
Check these out to follow Adam
Slip Angle Podcast: www.tracktuned.com
www.grid.life
www.facebook.com/GRIDLIFEOfficial/
IG: @gridlifeofficial
Twitter: @gridlifefest
Rob Wilson joins us on this week’s episode to share stories about coaching F1 drivers, the importance of weight transfer, why confidence matters, and the perfect technique to turning a steering wheel. He also shares his aha! moment as a driver and a coach.
Rob’s speed secret: Always tell the car what’s coming next.
Rob Wilson is well-known as a driver coach to many current and past Formula One drivers (Kimi Raikkonen, Nico Rosberg, Valtteri Bottas), as well as working as an instructor with the Skip Barber school years ago. He’s won the British Formula Ford Championship, raced in Indy Lights, IMSA prototype and GT cars, Formula 3, and even NASCAR.