As I’m watching the snow fall this evening, I know that most people are looking towards the holidays and are probably not thinking about next season yet.
Not me.
I’m looking at this past season and realizing that I really fell down on my car setup for this past year. I let myself “live with” five years of car wear rather than objectively compare the data and fix the problems. While the car was still relatively competitive this year, it wasn’t as good as it could be.
I’m also looking at AXAnalyst and how I could have done more to make things easier. I had a lot of events where the path map were a lot closer to the course design, which means that I wasn’t taking advantage of the car’s ability to corner, so it means that I wasn’t carrying enough speed in corners. The data shows that, I just didn’t take advantage of that information at the time. I need to trust the data more!
Analysis is good only if it leads to change. The change can be good or bad, but you only know if you can improve only if you change. That’s the biggest thing. You might be successful where you are now, but you can only improve if you change.