**A Day in the Life of a Racing Driver**

As I stood at the starting line, I couldn't help but feel a mix of excitement and nerves. The sun was shining bright, and the air was electric with anticipation. My host, Voxel, greeted me warmly and gave me a nod of encouragement before we began our day-long racing session.

**The First Session**

I started by getting familiar with the track and my new ride. As I pulled out of the pit lane, I made a gear shift here, hoping to get a feel for the car's performance. The quarter panel was already flat, indicating that it had taken some damage in previous sessions. I made a few adjustments, trying to compensate for its unevenness. With every lap, I managed to shave off precious seconds, my confidence growing with each passing minute.

As I approached the first turn, I noticed the cone and began to guide myself early. It was crucial to get this part right, as it set the tone for the rest of the session. I took a moment to assess the track and identify areas where I could improve. With a flick of the wheel, I adjusted my line and made contact with the inside rail, feeling the car's response to my input.

**The First Lap**

With the car now settled into a smooth pace, I focused on finding a rhythm. The braking points were crucial, so I took it easy on the first lap, testing the limits of the car. As we exited the pit lane, I hit the throttle with confidence, feeling the rush of adrenaline as the speedometer climbed higher.

The next few laps flew by in a blur of color and sound, each one building upon the last. My concentration was unwavering, my focus solely on the track ahead. The corners became sharper, the turns more precise, as I pushed the limits of what this car could do. It was exhilarating to be in the zone like this.

**Lap Time and Adjustments**

As we neared the end of our first session, I made one last push for a fast lap. With my heart racing, I steered aggressively, keeping the nose pointed outwards to maintain traction. The tires screamed in protest as I took the turn, but I was in control, feeling like I was driving a dragster.

My time came in at 1 minute 52.6, an impressive performance considering it was my first lap of the day. But I knew there was room for improvement, and so I made adjustments to fine-tune my strategy. With the right balance of speed and control, I would be able to shave off even more seconds.

**The Second Session**

For our second session, we focused on perfecting my braking technique. I needed to master this skill if I was going to achieve true racing form. Voxel reminded me that it's all about gentle pressure and smooth transitions between gears.

I began by reducing the pressure on the brakes, allowing the tires to build up traction before releasing. It was a delicate balance, but one that paid dividends as we hurtled towards the first turn. The car responded eagerly to my input, its speed and agility making it feel like an extension of myself.

**The Cool-Down Lap**

As we approached the end of our session, I took a final lap to assess how I'd done. With my heart still racing from the previous few laps, I focused on maintaining the momentum rather than pushing for more speed. The result was a respectable time of 1 minute 50.8.

**The Final Push**

In our final push, we aimed to shave off another precious second. With 10% throttle, I took it slow and steady, feeling for any remaining opportunities to improve. A slight adjustment here, and suddenly I was pushing the limits of what this car could do. It was an incredible rush, like being on the edge of something truly special.

**The Verdict**

As we concluded our racing session, I felt incredibly proud of how far I'd come in just a few hours. My time had improved significantly, with only a fraction of a second separating me from my personal best. Voxel and I exchanged a warm smile, knowing that this was more than just another day at the track – it was a victory of sorts.

I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to drive such an incredible machine, to have pushed myself to new heights and learned valuable lessons about handling and technique. This experience will stay with me for a long time, a reminder of what's possible when I step into the cockpit.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys I am not valter botas I'm not Kimmy reenan and I'm not Nico rosberg but I am about to add my name to that list in just about the only way I could ever hope to today I'm going to be getting driver tuition from the most sought after driving coach in the world he has coached not only those names I just mentioned but just about every Motorsport Legend you can think of current and former F1 Champions Valentino Rossy Juan Pablo Montoya you name it they've probably been taught by this guy Rob Wilson so we're going to get in the car and head to the destination now unlike say tennis or golf coaching in Motorsports is a little bit of a touchy subject not too many drivers are willing to admit to having a coach even though most of them do and most of those use Rob Wilson but there is of course a reason for that in an age of telemetry and data Rob Wilson is an old school car control Guru he is focused on the movement of the car the weight transfer the balance how you apply the throttle the brake the steering input how much force you use with each of those so he is not a Back to Basics instructor at all but focus on those very little details that help you go those last few tents the ones that really make the difference between the best and just the good I personally cannot wait for today I'm so excited Rob takes a very scientific approach to analyzing people's driving and I actually can't wait for him to pick apart my driving find some holes in it and then give me some advice to help me go quicker now you might be thinking that given that I'm going to be taught by one of the best Formula 1 driver coaches in the world I'd be heading probably back to silverston again br's hatch somewhere like this well not exactly because well we're here runting thought now I'm just taking shelter Under This Plane because it's incredibly windy here so hopefully I've managed to buff it out some of the wind noise now you might be forgiven for thinking we were going to do today in a Ferrari 430 a radical an aerial atom something like this but not quite we are going to be using a voxel Astra there she is boys and girls so it is one of the new models diesel front-wheel drive not exactly lighting the performance charts up but it is perfect for for the job at hand and I think we should climb into the car and then I will let Mr Rob Wilson explain just why that's the right tool for the job let's get in so I'm in the car with Rob and why didn't you explain to us why we're using Vox alastra for today well the firstly a road car is a good thing for the training of of racing drivers because you can feel what's going on if you're if you're in a an exotic something with with all the gizmos and things on it uh and it's a small mistake it almost fixes it for you and the Dynamics over and done with before you're even aware of you're just going play it so if we go into a corner and we feel a bit of understeer or a bit of oversteer or or' got too much load in the car we can be discussing it as it's occurring say I feel that you know I feel that now that's it's an amplified version of of uh what goes on in a racing car and and of course uh and and the environment is good because it's it's comfortable and and it's quiet and we can be saying no I didn't mean this I meant that and rather than having to stop at the pits and talk through headphones and miss things so that why the road car is a good idea the Astra voxes have been superb they've been so tough uh that um they surprise people how quick they are they get here and they they they you know keep up with a lotus a lease you know a normal one anyway uh and uh they're much faster than people think and and and and and the voxel are just being so strong they're just so strong we do the equivalent these cars of of uh you know two L 24 hours um and and they just as they come off the production line you will change brake pads and and they still keep going so you really put these things through their Paces around here they're doing flat out almost every single lap every sing lap as fast as they can go you always call it at formul 1 Pace because there often formul one drivers doing it so uh as pretty much as fast as cars can go and um and it it's it they just stand up to it uh they we don't do anything other than maybe change brake pads obviously tires pretty much every day because we wear it out so that's an enjoy and they handle well you know they they they're predictable and uh yeah so a useful useful car and right tool for the job right tool for the job you put it that very well better than I could Rob then took me through his core driving philosophy known as flat car a car's performance is greatest when load is distributed evenly across it so the earlier and more often you can achieve a flat car the better you're resulting acceleration breaking and turning a normal situation you'd be looking at that cone as an apex there uh and so but that's just there to fool us and and although the racing school would people say oh get to the Apex get to the Apex here we just rather than go to there we just build in a straight ahead car for a couple of car LS and then make the same turn just there and then yes and you pick yourself up say a few hundreds of a second with that flat car the same here we'll just get the car slightly flat then hold the inside a little bit longer than we think and then rather than just being they're lining up right hand to again get the weight out of the car and go straight ahead like this here and then don't just go right left get the car flat like steing like that for a moment because um it takes a minute you can get the car flat but Corner weights are still moving around on there and like a pinball machine going ping ping ping uh from the left to the right and so to get the corner weights even say the right front and the left front uh flat it does take a couple of car lengths for a car to settle down even though you can put a spirit level across the car and it would be flat it's it's that stuff going on so all we're saying really is if you can get the car flat a couple of car lengths before you break um then rather than half a car length before you break it will stop better to better achieve flat car Rob teaches a graduality to braking and steering inputs blending an initial small adjustment of the wheel into a full Turnin then at the apex of the corner apply extra lock this speeds up the corner at its slowest Point allowing a straighter flatter exit um and we must always communicate to the car in um in a in a Supple way just by just a little introduction and then doing that and the rate you move your body is so important tiny turn on the wheel tiny bit of break and rather just going around a little more stering there to get the weight out of the car and and and by and then it accelerates between there and down to our chicane down here and you'll pick yourself up you know over a tenth of a second but just having that weight out of the car and then a little more steering there to get a slightly flatter car there which also helps getting a flat with of braking and then about a bon length of braking there and then you keep turning the wheel turn the wheel so slow that you can keep putting extra steering on so then when you put the extra bit on to get the the weight out of the car the car's already going that way you can put a bit more load in the middle of a corner or have a the middle of the corner is the least economical place to be looking for extra speed cuz cars don't accelerate that quick there with the theory all covered Rob embarked on a flying lap to set a benchmark time for the morning and then it was my job to take the wheel we so there's our time Beacon up there and then go clip Y and here I won't use all the road let go to here go past that Turning Point flank car keep turning keep turning keep turning keep turning keep turning B there more steering the flank car there near this cone and Jet firm now down to second later decreasing the brake pressure and then a flat car just getting around here full them maybe 3/4s to stop a wheel spinning then full again and then a prop rotation out that soon hold the inside from a bit B than we think and then Diagon all things off and sit on the side avoiding these bums look at where we want to get to I'll start guiding the wheel very early I'm guiding it now and later with the right very short Corner keep Turing I make a gear shift here make hope those got flat car back car on the inside here look at that cone there and were guide early early early and then we out the car so the quarters are even that long rather than man it's just a yeah yeah it's just a a flick flick and then um and then we we're on the way against it little bit short Here I Go Gentle FM on the break down there decreasing the pressure just 10% throttle a little bit more and Full Throttle now when the car's taking off like a dragster rather than you wouldn't see a dragster taking off going so here we look at where we want to get to watch is over here just a de somewhere the keep turning keep turning in a little bit M there a flat car down decreasing the pressure again continue to turn a little more steering just there get the moment where the car said I'm going that way little rotation slightly flat car and then up to our thing here see how you did oh we see first session pole is so 151 dead okay the only exactly what you predicted earlier actually so um now there's probably a slightly better lap time there just for for absolutely just con tring on doing the lap but that's fairly representative I would have thought you know so now we'll go up here do a cool down laap and change drivers and then the pressure is on well absolutely okay here we go yep ready that's you going to be right that's not doing well done you st you steered that well the Temptation is more on but you didn't oh yeah little early nice to keep the nose out yeah that was good steering cuz it got faster you could have easily put too much steering on there but stay what the tire could do again it's one of those things the brain wants to do something and you have to consciously fight it slightly oh love you turn that wheel over there now that out G gu then you go for lifted a little early but we're okay very nice little early little go slow 2% now and go go go to run over the G okay medium yeah we used the full braking power then almost the first time niely sharper enough more okay there are some decent things going there okay 1 minute 52.6 there we go okay turn the whe I know F now you go good good well done okay you go let wait turn good well done that's good nicely like light now 10% now now now and then go that'll be a better accident uh you get that 10% Trel really early yeah and it just almost as soon as you've done the first time yeah you absolutely previous up ligh going to be a bit racy there but we s of going to call it okay uh on again yeah little bit of grass there little bit of Tru limits yeah much better okay we go wait full there go a little bit further wait probably good yeah better turn you go 10% now 10% sorry that felt like Big T to me take 516 you go there you go full full full full keep going and front way and go again just do the same like we just did yeah don't try to prove SL slow slow slightly lat and sharp good A little fur between CH keep to oh yeah much too early way right keep going follow the grass the same here but you know keep going early go go go go hold on 10% now only and go just go anyway but we're still Hing at Marshall didn't see that one no he was checking his newspaper no codes exactly keep the dark lighter sharper sharper full full nicely steady lighter Li turn the whe more sharper then sharper oh yeah yeah yeah all right well two laps ago 1 minute 50.8 okay and the last there 1 minute 50.5 yes the last two there one above the black and then they black yeah we are getting there well done thank you very much I think that's a brilliant if I'm within half a second of your first time of the day I'm I'm very much you're half a second quicker than the first time you did a 51 you wow let's let's draw a line under it then what an absolutely awesome day I have loved it I've been right in my elements uh huge huge thank you to and for voxel for inviting me down for the day I've learned a lot and I cannot wait to put this into practice at some of my favorite racetracks a lot of little tips that piece together help make a much much quicker lap time uh but I'm going to hop in the car and get moving I've had so much fun today it's been unbelievable I hope you guys have enjoyed the video subscribe if you haven't and I will catch up with you very very soon cheers guyshi guys I am not valter botas I'm not Kimmy reenan and I'm not Nico rosberg but I am about to add my name to that list in just about the only way I could ever hope to today I'm going to be getting driver tuition from the most sought after driving coach in the world he has coached not only those names I just mentioned but just about every Motorsport Legend you can think of current and former F1 Champions Valentino Rossy Juan Pablo Montoya you name it they've probably been taught by this guy Rob Wilson so we're going to get in the car and head to the destination now unlike say tennis or golf coaching in Motorsports is a little bit of a touchy subject not too many drivers are willing to admit to having a coach even though most of them do and most of those use Rob Wilson but there is of course a reason for that in an age of telemetry and data Rob Wilson is an old school car control Guru he is focused on the movement of the car the weight transfer the balance how you apply the throttle the brake the steering input how much force you use with each of those so he is not a Back to Basics instructor at all but focus on those very little details that help you go those last few tents the ones that really make the difference between the best and just the good I personally cannot wait for today I'm so excited Rob takes a very scientific approach to analyzing people's driving and I actually can't wait for him to pick apart my driving find some holes in it and then give me some advice to help me go quicker now you might be thinking that given that I'm going to be taught by one of the best Formula 1 driver coaches in the world I'd be heading probably back to silverston again br's hatch somewhere like this well not exactly because well we're here runting thought now I'm just taking shelter Under This Plane because it's incredibly windy here so hopefully I've managed to buff it out some of the wind noise now you might be forgiven for thinking we were going to do today in a Ferrari 430 a radical an aerial atom something like this but not quite we are going to be using a voxel Astra there she is boys and girls so it is one of the new models diesel front-wheel drive not exactly lighting the performance charts up but it is perfect for for the job at hand and I think we should climb into the car and then I will let Mr Rob Wilson explain just why that's the right tool for the job let's get in so I'm in the car with Rob and why didn't you explain to us why we're using Vox alastra for today well the firstly a road car is a good thing for the training of of racing drivers because you can feel what's going on if you're if you're in a an exotic something with with all the gizmos and things on it uh and it's a small mistake it almost fixes it for you and the Dynamics over and done with before you're even aware of you're just going play it so if we go into a corner and we feel a bit of understeer or a bit of oversteer or or' got too much load in the car we can be discussing it as it's occurring say I feel that you know I feel that now that's it's an amplified version of of uh what goes on in a racing car and and of course uh and and the environment is good because it's it's comfortable and and it's quiet and we can be saying no I didn't mean this I meant that and rather than having to stop at the pits and talk through headphones and miss things so that why the road car is a good idea the Astra voxes have been superb they've been so tough uh that um they surprise people how quick they are they get here and they they they you know keep up with a lotus a lease you know a normal one anyway uh and uh they're much faster than people think and and and and and the voxel are just being so strong they're just so strong we do the equivalent these cars of of uh you know two L 24 hours um and and they just as they come off the production line you will change brake pads and and they still keep going so you really put these things through their Paces around here they're doing flat out almost every single lap every sing lap as fast as they can go you always call it at formul 1 Pace because there often formul one drivers doing it so uh as pretty much as fast as cars can go and um and it it's it they just stand up to it uh they we don't do anything other than maybe change brake pads obviously tires pretty much every day because we wear it out so that's an enjoy and they handle well you know they they they're predictable and uh yeah so a useful useful car and right tool for the job right tool for the job you put it that very well better than I could Rob then took me through his core driving philosophy known as flat car a car's performance is greatest when load is distributed evenly across it so the earlier and more often you can achieve a flat car the better you're resulting acceleration breaking and turning a normal situation you'd be looking at that cone as an apex there uh and so but that's just there to fool us and and although the racing school would people say oh get to the Apex get to the Apex here we just rather than go to there we just build in a straight ahead car for a couple of car LS and then make the same turn just there and then yes and you pick yourself up say a few hundreds of a second with that flat car the same here we'll just get the car slightly flat then hold the inside a little bit longer than we think and then rather than just being they're lining up right hand to again get the weight out of the car and go straight ahead like this here and then don't just go right left get the car flat like steing like that for a moment because um it takes a minute you can get the car flat but Corner weights are still moving around on there and like a pinball machine going ping ping ping uh from the left to the right and so to get the corner weights even say the right front and the left front uh flat it does take a couple of car lengths for a car to settle down even though you can put a spirit level across the car and it would be flat it's it's that stuff going on so all we're saying really is if you can get the car flat a couple of car lengths before you break um then rather than half a car length before you break it will stop better to better achieve flat car Rob teaches a graduality to braking and steering inputs blending an initial small adjustment of the wheel into a full Turnin then at the apex of the corner apply extra lock this speeds up the corner at its slowest Point allowing a straighter flatter exit um and we must always communicate to the car in um in a in a Supple way just by just a little introduction and then doing that and the rate you move your body is so important tiny turn on the wheel tiny bit of break and rather just going around a little more stering there to get the weight out of the car and and and by and then it accelerates between there and down to our chicane down here and you'll pick yourself up you know over a tenth of a second but just having that weight out of the car and then a little more steering there to get a slightly flatter car there which also helps getting a flat with of braking and then about a bon length of braking there and then you keep turning the wheel turn the wheel so slow that you can keep putting extra steering on so then when you put the extra bit on to get the the weight out of the car the car's already going that way you can put a bit more load in the middle of a corner or have a the middle of the corner is the least economical place to be looking for extra speed cuz cars don't accelerate that quick there with the theory all covered Rob embarked on a flying lap to set a benchmark time for the morning and then it was my job to take the wheel we so there's our time Beacon up there and then go clip Y and here I won't use all the road let go to here go past that Turning Point flank car keep turning keep turning keep turning keep turning keep turning B there more steering the flank car there near this cone and Jet firm now down to second later decreasing the brake pressure and then a flat car just getting around here full them maybe 3/4s to stop a wheel spinning then full again and then a prop rotation out that soon hold the inside from a bit B than we think and then Diagon all things off and sit on the side avoiding these bums look at where we want to get to I'll start guiding the wheel very early I'm guiding it now and later with the right very short Corner keep Turing I make a gear shift here make hope those got flat car back car on the inside here look at that cone there and were guide early early early and then we out the car so the quarters are even that long rather than man it's just a yeah yeah it's just a a flick flick and then um and then we we're on the way against it little bit short Here I Go Gentle FM on the break down there decreasing the pressure just 10% throttle a little bit more and Full Throttle now when the car's taking off like a dragster rather than you wouldn't see a dragster taking off going so here we look at where we want to get to watch is over here just a de somewhere the keep turning keep turning in a little bit M there a flat car down decreasing the pressure again continue to turn a little more steering just there get the moment where the car said I'm going that way little rotation slightly flat car and then up to our thing here see how you did oh we see first session pole is so 151 dead okay the only exactly what you predicted earlier actually so um now there's probably a slightly better lap time there just for for absolutely just con tring on doing the lap but that's fairly representative I would have thought you know so now we'll go up here do a cool down laap and change drivers and then the pressure is on well absolutely okay here we go yep ready that's you going to be right that's not doing well done you st you steered that well the Temptation is more on but you didn't oh yeah little early nice to keep the nose out yeah that was good steering cuz it got faster you could have easily put too much steering on there but stay what the tire could do again it's one of those things the brain wants to do something and you have to consciously fight it slightly oh love you turn that wheel over there now that out G gu then you go for lifted a little early but we're okay very nice little early little go slow 2% now and go go go to run over the G okay medium yeah we used the full braking power then almost the first time niely sharper enough more okay there are some decent things going there okay 1 minute 52.6 there we go okay turn the whe I know F now you go good good well done okay you go let wait turn good well done that's good nicely like light now 10% now now now and then go that'll be a better accident uh you get that 10% Trel really early yeah and it just almost as soon as you've done the first time yeah you absolutely previous up ligh going to be a bit racy there but we s of going to call it okay uh on again yeah little bit of grass there little bit of Tru limits yeah much better okay we go wait full there go a little bit further wait probably good yeah better turn you go 10% now 10% sorry that felt like Big T to me take 516 you go there you go full full full full keep going and front way and go again just do the same like we just did yeah don't try to prove SL slow slow slightly lat and sharp good A little fur between CH keep to oh yeah much too early way right keep going follow the grass the same here but you know keep going early go go go go hold on 10% now only and go just go anyway but we're still Hing at Marshall didn't see that one no he was checking his newspaper no codes exactly keep the dark lighter sharper sharper full full nicely steady lighter Li turn the whe more sharper then sharper oh yeah yeah yeah all right well two laps ago 1 minute 50.8 okay and the last there 1 minute 50.5 yes the last two there one above the black and then they black yeah we are getting there well done thank you very much I think that's a brilliant if I'm within half a second of your first time of the day I'm I'm very much you're half a second quicker than the first time you did a 51 you wow let's let's draw a line under it then what an absolutely awesome day I have loved it I've been right in my elements uh huge huge thank you to and for voxel for inviting me down for the day I've learned a lot and I cannot wait to put this into practice at some of my favorite racetracks a lot of little tips that piece together help make a much much quicker lap time uh but I'm going to hop in the car and get moving I've had so much fun today it's been unbelievable I hope you guys have enjoyed the video subscribe if you haven't and I will catch up with you very very soon cheers guys\n"