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Originally Posted by b1adesofcha0s
So I just finished my first full HPDE this weekend
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My instructor drove my car and had me ride along with him in one of the more advanced level sessions. He was going to take me in his car, but it didn't have any passenger seat. He wanted to show me the proper line around the track; how to be smooth with my steering/throttle/brake inputs; how/where to look ahead for the apex of each turn. This actually helped me a lot with everything. I tried to just follow what my instructor did for all of my remaining sessions on the track.
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I don't know how it goes with the group you're running with, but if I were you I'd take a ride in the passenger seat with instructors or other advanced level drivers any time you can squeeze it in. I've ridden shotgun with instructors several times (in their rungroup, running pretty flat-out) over the time I've been doing HPDE's, and it helps me out a ton every time. Each time I get something new out of the ride (well aside from riding with many different drivers), because I'm in a different place with my own skills, and so I notice things about their driving that I didn't/couldn't notice before, etc.