So hear me out. There’s something you need to know.

We all have habits in our lives. We have habits, you know, at school, we have habits. We know at home, we have habits at the gym, we have habits at the track. We have habits when we drive, when we have habits in the paddock. You know, with all the things we do, so we have many habits, and some of them, let me actually make a little and I will explain what this is. By the way, some of the habits we have are positive.

So, you know, let’s make so some of them are good.

So I’ll put a plus, like positive,

and some of them are negative, so it’s not minus. So it makes you go, let’s say worse. It’s like a so I’ll put a little n, so positive and negative, and we will have, as I said, a certain amount of time to try to fix the negative habits.

So the goal is that we will have as much as good habits as possible. So 1234, you know, all the good habits we need, at least, like dotted list, basically, if you understand. And the goal is that we have, you know, 123, I mean, of course, we don’t want them, but is the goal is that one by one, for example, one habit could be in terms of driving first, you know, one, okay, you know 111, in terms of driving, because all sorts of habits, but I’m talking about Driving, okay, you could have one, one habit that is, for example, you are, for example, turning too early, early. Okay.

Then we have another habit that we meet, keeping the throttle on the brakes, subconsciously, throt so T ON TO BE throttle on breaks. Then you may have another one, which is, you’re looking in the back too much. So lb looking in the back, just like so upset, like so afraid, and just like all the time, very anxious looking in the back. Then we have one habit of, you know, not using the brakes and b No brakes, just breaking very soft, breaking very early. Okay, then you have another habit of, you know, missing the grip. So, missing the line, missing the line, missing the, basically, the racing line. You know, all the time, missing the optimal racing line. And that sometimes goes along with turning too late, so missing the line. So that’s we talked about tour turning too early, turn we turn too late, missing the line, turning too late. You know, there be, there’s gonna be all sorts of habits, negative habits, that drivers or making health moves, okay, H, M, health moves when you try to pass, but you’re never committed enough. And so you’re like, going in and you’re like coming back off the gas, and you’re not, you’re not basically committed to the move, and you lose so much time. So there will be all sorts of a bit guys. You have no idea there’s so many positive and negatives. Like the positive ones will be, for example, you know, being very consistent. Okay, that’s not really a habit, but, like, one of the habits when you are, I think, when you’re driving, just hitting your apexes, okay, apex is hitting all your apexes. Then we’ll be using the brakes properly, B, P, brakes properly. Breaking very, you know, being the latest breaker you can, you know, of course, you’ll be like, Oh, that’s not happy putting the head down. HD, putting the head down every lap, on every straight, all right, optimal racing line, L, R, L, hopefully, because it takes me too long if I try to write them down, so the video will become boring. So you need to obviously have optimal racing line and using the track. You know, track usage, to you, it goes along with optimal racing like, but maximum track user means, you know, using the old curbs. I mean, of course, unless you go beyond, but like, you know, track usage, and that’s it. And then other habits, which is like doing telemetry analysis, which is not purely in the driving side, but it’s like ta, ta, telemetry analysis and V analysis every session. Okay, that is part of your habits as well. Ta, all right. So there will be all sorts of I will actually put a plus. We need to put a plus, because we put a minus there on. We need to put a plus. So plus, plus, plus.

What are the positive and negative habits drivers build?

So we got a lot of different habits, positive and negatives. The. Goal is that one by one. Okay, so this is a mountain, all right. This is your road to your, you know, racing career, ideally at here, when you arrive here, you’re a professional driver, okay, when you’re a little here, a little you. So this is you starting now, at the beginning of your career. And this is you in what, 10 years of time, I guess. And this professional driver, p, d, professional racing driver, let’s say p, r, d, professional racing driver. It means Formula One, if you I mean, if that’s your goal, by the way. But I guess that is right here. I mean, I don’t think your goal is to just be doing it for hobby. Of course, everyone has different goals. I’m not gonna judge. But anyways, it’s either Formula One. It’s either in the car, it’s NASCAR, you know, Formula E, etc. So, and all the stop steps along the way for this is like, the first step is mini Okay, the second step is juniors, the second step is seniors, the third step is seniors, then the fourth step is, let’s say if you do shifters, okay, so. Kz, if you

do then it’s a four for many drivers, I’m just simplifying. Then it’s f3 and finally, it’s f2 if you want to do, like, the f1 thing, yeah, of course, if you don’t want to do that, and if you want to go into g t, it’s easy. I mean, it’s an easier mountain to go through. You can do K, z, and then you go straight into g t, so I mean, there’s all sorts of different way. I’m not counseling here. But then you go to GT, basically, so GT, but at the beginning will be like a paid driver, and then you will be pro so the mountain is easier to go through. You know? It’s like, this is the your second mountain. So it’s like, pro GT. So pro GT.

So it depends, of course, if you want to go to f1 you need to go to a fourth, fifth to f1 if you don’t want, if you don’t want to do that, because maybe there’s not enough budget, or, anyways, don’t have sponsors and everything. Of course, the better you are in, the more backing you have, the more you know of a social media presence you have, and everything. The more likely you have sponsors, and the more likely you get to you know, the more you can aim for it. Anyways, that’s a long story. I don’t want to go into this in this video, but the point is that you can see, the reason why I’m talking about habits in this video and how you break them, is that the more you go up through the mountain, let’s say the racing ladder, the steeper the steps become, in a way that it the stakes become higher and the costs become higher. You probably are just a kid. For sure you are and of course, you may not be aware of all the costs related to that, but believe me, in racing, your parents are doing a big, big sacrifice with everything, with making you doing, like making a race. And of course, it’s because they love you. And it’s, of course, you always have to be grateful for that, and they never, never forget that. But just to let you know, every step along the way becomes steeper, as you can see at the beginning, is not that CPC is like, like that, but then it gets steeper and it gets steeper and steeper, so it becomes more and more, let’s say, expensive. But when it comes to habit, it also becomes more difficult to break down the habits. That’s the whole point I wanted to do from this video.

Why do bad habits become harder to fix later?

So this is you with your little visor. You know, whichever helmet you are, you know, I try to make I’m not the best designer, but so every step along the way you need to try to, you know, it’s going to be more and more difficult to break the habits. So the goal is that we are going to take off all the bad habits, all the bad driving habits. Let’s say the goal is that we take off all the bad driving habits one by one, just literally taking an eraser one by one as early as possible. So hopefully Mini, we take off these habits. And the goal is that we take off all the habits in mini right as early as we can, so we are going to be having better and better results, you know, is going to, you know, be much better for you if you can do but then, of course, in karts, they may comes different habits, you know. So we have to try to take them out. And the goal is that we literally take an eraser and try to get them as soon as possible. Then maybe there’s a couple of ones we cannot take off in mini and that’s maybe not they maybe, maybe that will be the reason why we can’t win every race. Maybe we can win one or two, if we could take off all the bad habits, and if we were in a good team, we would have won pretty much all the races. I mean, of course, there’s many things involved, but I’m just making I’m just making a point. But then, of course, in junior, the goal is to remove all the other ones that you know, the remaining ones so you came up, you come with your color, like your, let’s say, in your balance. Yeah, you’re basically, it’s going to be just of good habits, the positive habits, and no negative habits from juniors onwards. Because if you arrive, this is the problem. If you arrive in KZ, okay, let’s say we go back and we try to leave the some of the habits there if you go in KZ, or if you go, let’s say in Formula four, and you have all these sorts of habits. Okay, if we get to a four in here, and we still have so many bad habits, racing lines, keeping the throttle on the brakes. This one is the worst to be, keeping throat on the brakes. You know, you’re break. You know, not breaking enough. You know, turning in too early. I did not remember what M stands for. Anyways, if you, you know, if you arrive here and you still have these habits, mate, it’s no chance, no chance, no chance, if you’re still like not aware of these bad habits. So being aware that every one of us start with some bad habits. And of course, if you drive in a specific truck, in a specific team, in a specific kart with a specific coach, you may pick up good habits, bad habits. It depends, you know, but we all, we all pick up some bad habits along the way.

What is the goal with your habits through your racing career?

Unfortunately, the goal is to try to remove them as much, as much as possible. This is how I view it. This is how I think it is in my world. And the goal is really to to break, to remove all the bad habits, not in a four, not enough three, but we should do it as early as possible in mini juniors, so you will have a better result. You’re gonna basically reap the rewards of of that work you did early on your career, and you’re gonna have way easier and smooth career if you still arrive in f2 and you still have all those negative habits you could have fixed in a mini like, coming up, like, you know, coming off the throat, on the brakes. It’s gonna be very hard.

Why should you fix your bad habits as early as possible?

So I hope that was interesting video and an interesting educational lesson for you. Yeah, I mean, that’s my goal all the time. Remember, we all have habits. We all have some positive habits and some negative habits. The goal is to keep increasing the the good habits list. All right, we need to keep making them more and more and more and more and more. Okay, and remember, it’s not just on the track, but it’s also off the track. You know? You need to try to make them more and remove, a set that the negative habits. And of course, there’s not too many, and there’s going to be just like 5678, habits. There’s not going to be like 100 as I said, I already mentioned, some of the most important ones. The goal is to and it doesn’t take one hour or one session or one day. It takes discipline and it takes commitment at first to break the habits like, if you are one of those drivers that turns too early guys, it’s not going to take a session to fix that. If you’re one of those drivers that keeps the throat on the brakes, it’s not going to take a session. It’s going to take plenty of sessions with conscious thinking, conscious if you never make that conscious thinking, conscious work, you’re never going to fix it. I promise you, it’s gonna stay with you, unless they put your pedals so far forward that you can’t even reach them then, but you’re still gonna be slow.

You know, the goal is that you keep the optimal, you know, pedals position with with your legs a little bit bent, in that case, tiny bit, just to make sure when you’re flat and when you’re off the brake, on the brakes, you’re not too stretched, and then it’s just about being aware, awareness, you know, and just thinking about it. And you think at first it’s going to be conscious, but then it’s going to be subconscious. All right, just keep reminding that. Keep that in the back of your mind. I hope it was helpful. I’ll see you next one.