Steering and photography

If you are a skilled driver, on the street you make few steering corrections. If the road is straight, the wheel hardly moves at all. You never make double corrections, where the second one is to fix the overly aggressive first one. In a corner, you smoothly dial in the right amount of steering for the intended radius. If it’s a hair tighter or looser than you intended, you correct in a way that gets you to the apex you wanted. You don’t make two corrections. You hit the apex within a few inches of what you intended. As you squeeze on the power after the apex, you hit the imaginary cone that marks the exit point. On the track, when you’re dealing with high slip angles and variable coefficients of friction, you can’t be that precise, but you try anyway. The skills learned there transfer directly to driving your car at speeds sensible on public roads. Do this enough, and it becomes second nature. You have complete control of your path down the road, and the mental effort required for…

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