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Great video, Gabe! Informative and really fun!

Another big misconception is you have to have a fast car with a lot of horsepower. But this goes along with your point about speed compared to lap times. A good example is a little over a year ago I was doing a track day, intermediate group, in my modified E36. I was watching the advanced run group. And was completely amazed watching a Cooper S completely destroying guys in zr1's and GT3 Porsche. I know part of it is he had that Cooper set up perfectly for that track, but mostly because he was that good. He was driving it at 99.9% on every inch of the track.

Dude is a potted plant on NGS live streams.

Great video! Dropped right on my lunch break. I think one I'd add is the planning that has to go into racing. Being mostly a "one man crew", it's as much about logistics (managing the car, it's setup, and it's health on and off the track) as it is a driver game. If you neglect either, you're going to be slow, or not on the track at all. You get really good at "figuring shit out", because something is always breaking.

Eye opening, keep em comin ked!

Right now i am in the 10th grade. I have 4 years of school before i can go to a race school. And im doing it, my mom is not the biggest fan but I honestly dont care at all. This is my dream and my life so

they have this track as a mod in assetto corsa not easy to find but was able to track it down on internet search or i put a link in a video showing it on my channel.can restrict the intake on the kart mod and add some kilos and the rotax is similar to the k1 electric at circuit

Traction circle is a good way to augment what you talk about here.

What was pole position time ?

3:14 I spent 400€ for my simgear, I've 15 years of experience in simracing. Actually I don't know what's happened lastly that a Logitech G-series is considered a toy, by people playing F1 by codies. Ah, clever, that ultraexpensive stuff got to be publicized. And surely are not 5000 per year, a simgear is something that lasts

One of the things that annoy me most are kart drivers with their magnesium rims and ultrasoft wheels saying that you need 7k for a kart. May a kart not be a spaceship? Back in time karts were more similar to carts, and this is what they should be

Well damn 😮

I love the channel, I just found you and am binging your videos. I too have that itch to embrace Motorsports but I clearly have so much to learn. 👌🏻 keep up the good work, you found yourself a new subscriber

Thank you for making this video, Gabe, I dreamt of racing cars my whole life but just thought it's never gonna happen because it takes money I don't have, you changed my mind

Great race and nice overtakes! When you’re going for fast laps, are you braking or just lifting

Worthy of the last lap 😂 what a season

Great timing to find this video - getting a race license in a couple months, still haven't picked exactly what series to race after that. Got rid of the excuses, the self doubt is a little harder to deal with. Thanks for sharing this :)

Just found your channel, really appreciate you sharing your journey!

Yeah real racing is strange in that it's both easier and harder than sim racing. Easier because the car is talking to you a lot more and you can better understand how to drive it, but harder in that it's massively uncomfortable due to the heat and physicality/endurance needed to drive a car that hard for so long.

Have to be able to feel/sense grip. Not an easy task.

Most sports car are just bad and unstable as you can see in this video. The car needs to be very stable and predictable at the limit.

I've only been doing sim racing but it's already obvious from it that racecar driving is not at all like driving to work or even to drive fast on the Autobahn. I once did about 180km/h on the Autobahn and as the road turned a little bit I felt somewhat of a tyre slip, like the I felt the tyre changed shaped a little bit under power. It was still nothing compared to what you feel even in a sim. Driving at race speed is like skating: you have grip until you suddenly don't and you're always almost like drifting between states of what powers are controlling your car. I imagine it's VERY physical in a real racing car and also scary when you cross that grip line for a split second.

amkes me wanna go racing but im poor so thats too bad haha

Very cool video. Big soccer guy but to me racing and fighting are the hardest sports not to mention that it’s life or death even when well prepared.

Spinning rr tire. Have you had your car on 4 wheel scales? Might be uneven corner balance.

There is such a thing called "trying too hard". If you're goal is to always get better and even when you win you're not satisfied, you're being too hard on yourself. You talk about working at it and need to do more sim practice. This isn't your job it's your hobby. Try to make it fun. For me driving is the fun part that makes all the work worth it.

Trust the process! There's so much to learn in this sport but if you keep at it, it'll begin to come together. Thanks for sharing your journey!

Nathan is top notch!

Is that Monza at Foxwoods casino? I live 15min from there 😂

Hey man, during watching your videos, i signed up racing school. keep up the good work, hope to see you on the track some day :)

I use RaceChrono app for trackdays, a mobile app. Works really well for me, and might help you too

Great walkthrough, and thanks for showing the mistakes. I have the same project coming up, along with replacing the lower oil pan cover. I think I'll be measuring what comes out 😅

Hang in there Gabe. You’ve got all winter to work on your technique on the SIM. Also, thanks for share your notes on Thompson, I’m racing there next week for the first time.

I believe you need to be in the right head space to hire a coach and use the coach.

Wow. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ where is this 😅😅

Enjoying the video smiling and nodding and then wait a second. I know that hill, I know that turn, I know that pit lane, I know that slightly curved downhill then uphill front "straight" into a blind left hander over a crest. That's Palmer! And then I was hooked. Great video! Keep it up.

Okay... I don't want to go racing anymore.. you talked me out of it.

On top of the driving-at-the-limit game, you have the Racecraft -- that is, how do you get past other cars that really don't want to let you past? I raced SCCA Spec Miata myself, and to me that's the really fun part! 🥰🤪

6:57 Where would you say is the most ideal city/area to move to in the US?

Great video. Thank you. Subscribed.

IMO the hardest part of this, by far, is the networking. As an introvert, you lost me at 'go somewhere and meet people'. I have no idea how that works 😂

Every man thinks he is good at three things; building a fire, cooking on a grill and driving fast, most are only average at the fire and cooking and are horrible at driving fast. Driving a car on that edge of control is incredibly difficult, the margin for error is very nearly zero. Add another 20 or so cars driving along side you and the stress goes up exponentially.

Kudos to you Miata guys but I used to have BIG problems with you. As a "secomd" class to race with my GT2 Porsche 928 on scca race weekends I also entered ITE, which spec miatas ran in. They seemed so involved with each other and often were doing bone-head moves, ignoring the fact that there were others in the race, too. I even had one use me to make what he called a "bank-pass" on another one...rammed me intentionally to bounce off and get ahead of another one. You do give a good idea of racing. It's not a track day at all. The fast line through a lap....not as important as staying in front. Sometimes you sit on a leader and go easy while your tires come back, then make the pass at the right time. Even getting to the start, well prepared, that's not simple.

This video does an excellent job of explaining how racing differs from regular driving and the challenges it presents.

gave a whole new perspective. thanks!

Every turn is about covering up your mistakes, gets worse with traffic. Flirting with the limit consistently is so hard

Hey Gabe, how do you rate your arai gp7?

And how do we win? By staying consistently on that line, one thing you should have stressed is consistency without it there are no W's. The ability to consistently manage all the different things that are going on is the difference between a champion and a back marker. Other than that, great video.

Thank you Gabe for making these videos about your journey. Keep making videos and keep racing

While not wheel-to-wheel racing, still great place to start is auto slalom events. Cheap to enter, can use daily car for stock classes, very little chance of crashing and blowing your budget on day one. Another benefit is that you can organise one yourself for dirt cheap if there's nothing near by. You can even get a couple friends and share a car in some events.