Rev up your engines, today I'm going to tell you 5 things you should
never do if you're going to be driving your car fast, yes believe it or not when I was
young I drove really fast and I did it in these American muscle car boats like this
68 cougar, and I survived without a scratch so if I can do it in these old things, I'm
going to teach you how to do it in modern cars that drive a lot better, the first and
most important thing not to do is, don't coast, don't have the vehicle in neutral and be gliding,
I mean I know guys try that all the time, oh I'm going to get better gas mileage or
whatever, but if your coasting, especially if you're going downhill or cornering, realize
that the engine is part of the whole picture here, and if it's just in neutral, your not
getting engine braking, your not getting the force that the engine has a little drag on
the drivetrain when your cornering and taking your foot off the gas or stepping on the gas,
the engines is spinning it's like a centrifuge and it effects the geometry of the car, how
it goes down the road, so if your driving fast don't ever glide, put it in neutral,
the race car driver their always in some kind of gear when their driving cuz they get ultimate
control of the machine, you take it out of gear your losing some of that control, the
next thing not to do when your driving fast is don't hold the steering wheel incorrectly,
the used to tell you to hold the steering wheel like this, but in modern cars they say
hold it here, at 3 oclock and 9 oclock, now in this old 68 it doesn't make all that much
difference cuz it doesn't have an airbag, your not going to have the airbag if it goes
off blast and have your wrists go smacking into your head, but if you have a modern car
they all have airbags, and if you ever, ever hold it too close to the airbags and when
they blow, boom, so you want to have your hands apart in case something does happen
and the airbags blow, and when it comes to steering wheels here's how you drive, if your
making a right hand turn you push with the left hand and pull with the right hand, and
conversely if your making a left hand turn, you pull with the left hand and push the right
hand to make it corner right, the most important thing not to do is, don't care about your
surroundings just drive as fast as you want wherever you want, because you really need
to know the path your taking if your driving fast, take a race car driver, what do they
do, they practice over and over the track to see when they have to brake, when can they
go full speed, you have to understand when your driving first, as an extreme example
I've rode motorcycles my whole life, and when you go fast in a motorcycle, hey your a little
thing on two wheels, anything out there can finish you off, so when I drove fast, what
I would do was, I would do a little recon, I'd do it out in the country where there wasn't
much traffic and then you check out the roads and if you found that hey from one farmers
house to the next, there's a mile or two miles stretch where there are no driveways even
coming to the road, you know nobody is going to be sneaking up on you when your driving
really fast, you got to understand if your taking a curve and then your going to straight
away you don't just step on the gas and go through the curve as fast as you possibly
can, you have to do a little braking first as you go into the curve and once you get
going you give it some gas to go through, you don't just keep your peddle to the metal,
you got to use sense if your driving fast, you want to understand that sometimes to go
faster you have to brake first, don't talk to everybody and playing music and not paying
attention to what your doing while your driving, if your really seriously want to drive fast,
turn off the radio and do it solo, don't have anybody else in the car, you might think,
oh what's a little music, well yeah you got the radio turned up your not paying attention,
you don't get emotionally involved when your driving fast, you have to be stone cold sober
when you do that stuff, it's been proven that if you got the radio turned up loud your not
paying full attention to what your doing, and realize the faster you go, the quicker
your reaction time has to be because your getting to other cars faster, your going to
be having to make faster decisions if something happens, and having loud music on actually
does the opposite, it slows your reaction time down, having a bunch of people in your
car talking, that is very distracting too, I mean it's been proven through statistics
that especially younger drivers if there's a guy and his friend all blah blah in the
car, that's when the wrecks occur, their all listening to each other and when you add cell
phones into the mix people either talking or watching videos, that's a recipe for disaster,
your best to drive fast solo, cuz if your driving fast, your not going to have the time
to think, oh ghee what should I do in this situation, you have to have all that stuff
in your head already, and when something does happen you know how to react and you just
do it calmly, you want to plan way when your driving fast, cuz the faster you go, the more
you got to plan ahead, those things are going to be coming at you quicker than they normally
do, so you have to plan ahead, and if you see a situation where, oh there's really trouble
ahead, don't step on the gas, slow down then, use your brain on that too, there's some times
when it's time not to drive fast anymore it's time to slow down, so now you know 5 things
not to do if your going to drive fast, and really if you are going to drive fast, take
my advice, do it solo, because all joking aside, driving fast is a serious business
and you want to be serious and have 100 percent concentration on the road when your doing
it, so if you never want to miss another one of
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