This Nerd Out episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Super Comp. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to “Nerd Out” this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I’m running it back over the next series of Daily Driver episodes.
This Nerd Out episode is dedicated to the NHRA Lucas Oil title chase in Top Dragster. If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to “Nerd Out” this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I’m running it back over the next series of Daily Driver episodes.
If you were an avid listener of the Sportsman Drag Racing Podcast, you know that Jed and I (OK, more me than Jed!) loved to “Nerd Out” this time of year and break down the NHRA Lucas Oil title chases. I still love the exercise (and a surprising number of you seem to concur), so I’m running it back! In maintaining the short form of the Daily Driver, I’m breaking down one points chase per episode. Today, we’ll kick things off with a deep dive into Stock Eliminator!
Up to this point I’ve talked about the 3 winning finish line strategies and ensuring you have situational awareness in your own lane when gameplanning. Now, I want to finish with talking about gameplanning in reference to the opponent in the other lane.
In part 2 of this 3 part mini series on Gameplanning, I want to talk about situational awareness. When racers think of gameplanning, we have a tendency to think about it in reference to an opponent. I’d argue that 95% of a successful gameplan is focused on what is happening in your own lane.
In ThisIsBracketRacing ELITE and ThisIsBracketRacing Jr., we focus on three distinct and simple finish line ideas. We call them the fundamental WINNING finish line strategies. In part 1 of this 3 part Gameplanning mini series, let’s dive into those three winning finish line strategies.
The single biggest attribute in my racing today is my ability to hit the tree. A lot of the questions I get are centered around how can you advance that in your racing? How can you make hitting the tree your biggest attribute?
This week’s episode is something I wanted to share from a podcast that I listen to that is centered around the Summer Olympics. And on that episode Summer Sanders, Olympic Gold Medalist, talks about 3 key questions that helped her perform at her best. Why are you competing? Who are you doing it for? Who loves you? I am sharing this because those 3 simple questions are gold.
This episode is going to look a little more like the Question of the Week feature than the Daily Driver. A few months back on the Competitive Sociopath episode, I talked about the correlation between of being hyper focused and success. This week is expanding on that correlation into the competitive sociopath line of thinking in regard to families and couples.
“Plans are useless, but planning is everything.” – Dwight Eisenhower. As most of you know or have probably figured out by now, I am big on planning. Especially when it comes to racing. But what happens when we can’t plan for everything. How can we be prepared?