How do you "sell" seat time over bolt-ons?

Z1NONLY

When someone new to performance driving asks you what mods they should do to go faster, how do you convince them that seat time will be a better means of going faster than buying shiny new parts for their car?

I used to just tell people "Seat-time you will crush bolt-on you." but I may have come up with a better analogy that just about everyone can relate to.

Typing

Most everyone operates a keyboard just as most people drive cars. However, I think everyone recognizes the difference between hunting and pecking (even quickly hunting and pecking as I am doing now) and someone, who actually knows how to type, machine-gunning off 100+ words per minute.

More to the point, I can't imagine any two-finger typist watching a real typist and thinking "If I had a keyboard like that, I could type 100 words per minute."

No. I think just about everyone knows that no keyboard on the planet will make someone, who can't type, as fast as someone who can. I think people also understand that one typing lesson won't get you up to speed either.


We hosted a Porsche club event today and this approach seemed to be well received among the new-to-the-track drivers.

This little epiphany, got me wondering how others deal with this recurring theme.

What are some of the approaches you guys use to "sell" seat time as a valuable means of going faster?

I asked this question on the other forum, but figured many here might have some good ideas as well.