In order to get better, we need to work on what we lack, and at times, capitalize on the strengths we do have. List at least one of each (and no more than 3) of your personal driving strengths and weaknesses. I'm curious to see what everyone says, and it's okay not to reveal all your secrets as well.

My Strengths:

~Endurance: I have a lot of practice staying alert and focused for long periods of times, even in extreme conditions.
~Smoothness: Something I'm continually perfecting, I still feel far from it, but I feel I'm more consistent than most.
~Setup: I derived a lot of pleasure from setting up my car for maximum grip and performance.

My Weaknesses:

~Braking: In my opinion, I tend to brake too softly and too early, even with my FWD NA car, which should be the opposite.
~Temper: I can be a bit rash from time to time, but I've gotten a ton better...according to my wife
~Shifting: Most of the time, my rev-match and heel-toe are spot on, but I think I miss-shift WAY too often for my taste, it really frustrates me....esp. when everything has been perfectly smooth all day.

Smoothness is my weakness all around. Whether it be in breaking, acceleration, shifting, turning, or the transitions between all of them, it is definitely my weakness. I definitely go into turns too hot, especially in an autocross.

Having a well set up car is nice. I love my car.

I know at the Dragon last time, I missed a couple of heel and toe downshifts which was not good.

My strong point is smoothness and knowing my limit.

That being said is I sometimes find myself having a change of heart half way through a good run and slow down for know reason.

One of my strongest weaknesses is the downhill. The added momentum throws me off on roads like Richard Russel downhill coming out of the sweepers and straights strikes the feeling of under steering right through the next turn.

My strength is knowing my limits and being over all pretty smooth.

Like Dana, I to have problems with downhill due to brake management and not cooking them right away. I dont quite understand this whole gravity thing and how it applies to going fast now a hill.

My other weakness, and Vance and others will get a good chuckle about this is... Decreasing Radius Corners... I hate them, they hate me, and the only time I have ever crashed was on one of these...

^ haha.

My weakness is curbs, then signs.... (for Jared and Min)

I think gravel pits needs to be added to that list...

My strength is pushing down the accelerator; my weakness is having to let it go.

Weakness: Not keeping a car long enough

Blowing up engines

I feel my strengths are:

:Confidence, Not cockiness. This is also one of my most used pieces of advise to everyone who comes on runs with me. There is a fine line between the two but they have polar opposite outcomes.

:Ability to pick lines and swapping driving style to suit where I am/what I'm driving quickly.

:smoothness, The greatest gift my favorite car (92 mitsubishi magna/diamante in the us I think) gave me before the police gave it a defect notice and I took it off the road. I Had a tiny steering wheel in it and very light steering. Add to that I customized a set of s13 coilovers with very aggressive suspension setup and sticky 245 tires it took a very precise driving style but god damn it was fast in the corners.

My weaknesses are:

:AWD cars. I've never owned one but driven quite a few and I can't get my head around them. One day I'll buy one and figure them out. I've owned just about every other platform I can think of and learnt as much as possible about each one. But AWD is like my nemesis, We are destined to confront each other for a final battle one day.

:Drifting too much. I sometimes get lazy and continually walk the rear end around. I know it is costing me time but unless there is someone going quick enough to make me really focus I generally just skid it.


Sorry if this is a bit long and painful but I like analyzing things like this.

There is probably a few more things I do when I'm really focused that I don't even notice which is my I'm setting up a camera inside the car so I can watch it later and see what else I can improve on. I think having someone behind with a camera would also be a helpful thing.