The Uncoachable Ones - Lone Wolf Racing Drivers

How to use your freedom loving and self-determining nature to be exceptionally quick.

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The Uncoachable lone wolf driver - can be wildly inconsistent or an unreachable genius!

If you don't like being told what to do, if it just gets your back up…

If you find yourself unable to do things you know you should do, because it's so important to do things your own way instead. If you’d rather lose a bit of time than follow instructions…

Then you might be a bit like me - an uncoachable.

I think we all are a bit like that, motor racing is very appealing to stubborn people who like to be totally in control and reject interference.

I think it's a cool way to be. 

It means you are a lone wolf, what's cooler than that?

Apart from being deliberately ignorant, the lone wolf uncoachables have a tendency to drive in a particular way too. They really like to freely experiment corner by corner, and improvise their way around a track.  Last minute random decisions to experiment are great ways to enjoy and affirm your racing freedom.

Here’s how that materialised with me when I raced. I would suddenly decide:

• I’m going to brake later than ever right now.

• I’m going to hit that kerb for the first time, I don’t know why.

• This corner isn't flat, so I will try it flat right now, why not?

• I’m bored, I will throw it sideways and get a better exit… maybe.

From the outside my driving looked random, and anyone watching would rightly say WTF is he doing, he hasn’t done one lap the same as another yet!

But for me as a young bloke, driving was the one time I had absolute autonomy and I couldn’t help but go a bit wild.  I don't mean wild in the sense of going full Tokyo drift, I mean by making as many new and self-generated decisions as I possibly could in the time I had on track. And that manifested as corner-by-corner random changes.

The time I had on the track, isolated in my helmet, deafened by the engine and wilfully ignorant of any signals being thrown my way, was all sacred. So I was going to bloody well use it entirely my own way.

But yeah, you already know the result…. Not quick enough!

Every lap had a corner that was a triumph, but another corner was a disaster, and over the course of a 12 lap run I couldn’t remember what worked and what didn’t.  I don’t think I cared all that much either!!

This is the fate of many of the uncoachables.  We get stuck in a loop of driving freely, forgetting what we did, getting frustrated, then overdriving trying to find more breakthroughs.

How to get out of this overdriving loop without surrendering your lone wolf status.

I’m going to show you a process that can unlock the following for a rebellious uncoachable lone wolf driver:

• Become fast as hell.

• Develop uncrackable consistency.

• Super sensitivity to set up changes and their benefits.

• Hunger for more and more detailed data.

• Deep understanding of every corner in high definition.

Most of all, once you’ve been through these processes nobody will be in a position to give you advice or coach you, you’ll be way beyond their level!