All right, guys, there’s one concept I really want you to understand and that is:

Your entries are the most important thing.

If you want to have a good corner, you need to have a good entry. If you want to have a good lap, you need to have all corners with good entry. So basically, the reason goes that 90% of the mistakes in the corner start from the entry. So if your entry is not ideal, you will likely make a mistake I’ll explain to you. So let’s imagine we make a like we create a corner, all right, so let’s imagine we make a corner, or let’s change the color. Let’s make it black. So let’s imagine we create a corner, and I try to, you know, kind of try to make it like the best corner I can. So, so let’s say this is, you know, the way you approach. So, okay, so this is a corner. You’re like, Oh, what the hell, Alessio, what do you mean? This is the corner. Let’s say this is the corner here, right? This is the corner, if you approach and you’re basically coming from here, and let’s say there’s like a curb here, and it’s like that, how we have all the little curves, you know, let’s make them red, like, you know, it’s like, this is the curb there.

Anyways, we got our nice little corner.

The first thing is the line

So the point being is that if you, as I said, think about the fact that 90% I believe, of the mistakes start from the entries. We need to prioritize the entry so much, right? So it means we have to have the most, the highest focus on the entry in terms of three things.

This are the three things you have to think about in terms of entry, our entry things to focus on, of course, the first thing is the line. You know, we either place ourselves, either our little go kart. We either place here, you know, using the curve with our Go Kart, we either place ourselves here, or we can place ourselves I’ll use the red as the wrong color, or we can place ourselves here. Which one is it going to be better? Well, you guessed it, this one, all right. So the line is very, very important on the entry. And of course, what’s going to happen is that if you’re the black, you’re going to have the proper line, you’re going to have the great apex, and you’re going to use everything, and it’s going to be proper. The red is going to be like, oh shit, I’m trying to I’m going to try to make the corner. I’m going to be like that. So that’s why the middle and the exit are going to be the mistakes. The concept, like, what you notice is, all the driver is going too wide on the exit. Oh, the driver, you know, when you’re going to be like, the mechanics are going to stand and watch you, or your parents, your coach, oh, you’re going too wide. You’re like, Oh, mate, you’re going too wide here. What the hell are you doing? And the reason, the actual thing they should tell you is like, mate, you work too tight on the entry. That is the mistake. So that’s why I cringe so many times when I hear bad advice. So the first goal is to get the optimal racing line.

The second goal is the speed

The second time the sorry, the second goal

is, you know,

the speed All right, so you can either go too fast,

so you can arrive either too fast, and you know, if you arrive too fast, basically, okay, so let’s say this is the optimal speed, right? Ah, if you arrive with the racing line, correct, and you have the optimal speed, you know this is the optimal line, but if you arrive too fast, for example. And now we will discuss other like, reasons why I feel you may arrive too fast, but like, if you arrive a little bit too fast, okay, because your speed is too high, you just gonna go like that. Again. People standing from the outside, you’re like, oh, may you’re going too wide, and they may see in this moment you’re too slow, for example, because sometimes you know, either you keep going wide, or if you go and go, if you miss the entry, and you go too wide, you miss the apex, most of the drivers are gonna slow it down. This is what most drivers do. I mean, this is the less bad mistake, because if you keep going wide, then you make more meters. You’re on the dirt. So normally, the the least bad mistake is to slow it down in the mid. Corner needs to be the apex. Okay, right next lab, try to fix it. You can’t do you can’t do anything about this lab. You have to try to fix it next time. So again, from the outside, it will say, they’ll point out and with, Oh, you are too slow in the mid corner. You slow it down too much. But they don’t realize the actual problem starts from the entry being too quick.

The third reason why people lose time is your inputs

And you if we think about it, the number, the so the third reason why people lose sight, I mean, like, I mean why the entry can be wrong. Let’s say what the three main things we have to think about in the entry are your inputs your driving inputs. And you will be like, What the hell are inputs? Alessio, what? What do you mean with those? So driving inputs basically is your left foot, your and I will make this little thing your right foot and your steering wheel.

Okay, so your left foot, your right foot and your steering wheel. What do I mean by this? Listen, if you arrive in the corner, you know, it seems easy to bizarre. You know, the only issue is the speed or the line or, you know, it’s very easy to say that, but you know, your inputs are very important. And of course, the steering wheel correct, like the steering wheel is what defines normally the so if I look at this, the steering wheel is what affects the line, basically, and the pedals is what affect the speed, right? You’ll be like, Oh, Alessio, yeah. So we shouldn’t mention them, but no, because I think it goes more in depth. The reality is that your inputs, yes, your pedal, you can basically either, for example, there’s two things you can be doing wrong, in the on in the entry. All right, let’s say, in a hairpin, you can either break not enough, and we already mentioned this. When you break not enough, you don’t you don’t create the same pitch as if you break anymore. So if you break more, the kart, basically, not only if you break hard, you’re gonna be able to break later, and you’re gonna be able to stop more and you generate more temperature on the tires, and you’re going to create more pitch on the kart, and you’re going to more likely get the apex because the kart has more rotation, and many, many, many other reasons. But, well, I actually forgot what was the saying. Yeah. So basically, when you break hard, okay, you will create more rotation and everything. And of course, you’re going to affect the mid corner as well. Okay, so the entry is going to be highly affected by your speed of distance. So your speed your line, but also, so again, line refers to distance, but you know, it’s much better to think of it. Think about it in line. But yeah, if you break in a certain way, if you break properly, you will rotate the kart like you want. If you don’t break enough, okay, you’re gonna go straight, or you have to break so early. So your inputs, basically, are those, and again, why you like? If you said that, why? Why? Basically, those inputs affect the rest of the corner, because remember, so the whole point of this, this video, this lesson, is that entry affects everything else.

Okay, affects everything else. So if your entry, because you arrive with the brakes and you’re not breaking properly, you’re not generating the rotation you will have mid corner under steer, as described in the red okay, you see this. You left me corner under steer. And most of the times, you know also what happens is, is this? What happens is this? If you brake too early, what happens most of the times, the drivers are going to turn too early and they’re going to go too wide on the exit. And again, they see the drivers to go into white. Oh, you’re going to white. The reason is they brake too early. They feel like they’re too slow, and they start to go or this is what they do. They break too early, and still on the entry, they go on the gas. So instead of going on the gas at the optimal point, which is at the maximum peak rotation, just like here, just a bit before the apex. The apex is like here, so a bit before the apex in meaning you should always go a bit, tiny bit before the apex. But now they are going, this case, so early on the gas, so like here, because they are too slow on the entry, because they break too early and too soft. And so they go on the gas early, and they’re gonna get pushed out wide, tour, you know, but that’s basically you. When you brake early, you always turn early. That’s the problem, unfortunately. But let’s go back to this, you know. And it’s not just about getting on the gas early. Sometimes driver are picking are keeping the throttle on the brakes. So. You know, we just talked about the brakes either, and but another mistake is not not only breaking enough, maybe they break hard, like I show you the I’m gonna make here an example. Like you break they may be breaking hard, this is the peak, but then they’re coming off. And so you’re like, Oh, why? I mean, why did you come off? You should have braked later, right? You should have braked much later, and hold the brakes, trail, break in the corners, and then come off later. And you know what I mean? So, so there’s not just whether you break early or late or soft, no, it’s also the way you you keep the the whole braking, you know, through the corner. So the technique, your inputs, okay, I hope this is not too complicated. And then the throttle. Again, your throttle affects massively, again, the speed. Oh, I want the black one. Nope, I don’t want this. So, yeah, your throttle act massively infects your speed as well. And, of course, the line. And the problem is that so many drivers, so many and I cringe when I see this, but unfortunately, 90% of drivers have these problems. So when they brake, they’re not coming off the gas fully, so they are keeping always a little bit of brakes. So they’re like, it’s like this. So this is the maximum, this is 100% braking. This is 0% braking. And so basically, what they do is that they arrive from from full throttle, and they are a full throttle, and they they come off, and they keep 20% and then they go back on the gas. But this is so bad because the kart is not stopping enough. What they should have done, and they saw they have to break early, so what they should have done is to come to take off the gas later. Oh, actually, let me make it steeper so it’s more clear. Oops. So arrive, take off the gas later, and take it off fully, and then they can put the gas, you know, like that. Unfortunately, so many drivers are doing these mistakes, and they carry it on until they drive into Formula cars if they don’t fix this bad habit early, because they don’t think it’s subconscious. And so because of that, the thing about it, if you do everything equal, but you keep some throttle on the brakes, you’re gonna go a little bit straight, of course, you know, whereas in the green, you’re not in the green, you’re gonna have the optimal line because the kart is stopping. Imagine that you’re trying to ask the kart to stop because using brakes and to accelerate because you’re picking the throttle. But again, it’s subconscious. But the problem is, is you will not be able to break, you know, if you have this technique and you want to make the apex, you will have to break here, because you have to break early. You know, because you have some throat on the brakes, if you want to, if you use the proper technique, you can break later. You can break here, one two meters later. Well, I don’t know about you, but if I could make one break one two meters later in every corner, I would take it, wouldn’t you? So yeah. I mean, this is the thing, and,

and, yeah. I mean, I wish, I wish you can, I wish you can be more mindful about it, and, and just remember that every time it’s the entry, it’s really the entry that affects everything. And if I go to the data, oops, and I remove this, because otherwise I can’t see anything. No, I don’t want to remove that. I want to remove that. Yeah, like this. If you go to the data and we look an average driver in an average track against a kind of like a pro driver in a way.

We can see, for example, I have my data from me drivers. There’s everything you see that you see when we have the low minimum speed in the mid corner. You see here very low speed, very low speed, very low speed. And you’re like, Oh, why the kid is having low minimum speed in 100% not even 90 100% of the times when they have too low speed is because the entry was wrong. Look at that. So look at the track map I’m showing you here. So we have major speed difference here. Look what it does. Completely different line. Look at the dots. I’m playing the dots. The green is too tight, and of course, it misses the racing line, and it’s just too slow and having too slow. And then he keeps it out again, disaster that we do again in this corner. So low minimum speed we look at the map again. I mean, here I don’t, I don’t know exactly what he’s doing. To be honest, the entry is not too much. You know, he missed the he missed the grip. Here you see. Why did he miss the grip? I have a guess. I think it did not stop the kart enough. Can you guess it? Yes, you can see from here, look, it didn’t break in the right place. But the worst part is, they didn’t stop the kart enough. It just goes too quick in the entries. Again. It’s the same problem as we mentioned.

Remember what we said before we talked about let me. Try to it’s not easy, okay? And when we said about the line speed, the inputs, in this case, the speed was too fast, but because the inputs are wrong, okay? Because it’s it’s not stopping the kart enough, and so he’s going straight with too much speed, all right? And we saw, we talked about the first corner. The first corner was the line, right? We saw that here it was the line. We were looking at the corner before right here was the line. It was too tight on the entry to that on the entry and like almost the same speed. Though, it’s a recipe for disaster. You’re gonna go straight automatically. We keep going on through the map. I remember we were looking into the we’re looking into the other other corner in the last corner, didn’t we? Yeah, because we saw the last corner was quite messy as well. Look, okay, here we need to realign it basically with distance. But we could see, like, look, the last corner was quite messy. You see again, it breaks very late. Something is not right. Let me do this. Let’s do it again. Yeah, we’re going to the last corner is look at that. Look at the issue. Again, we have such a low minimum speed. Look at the issue. Look at the issue. Not only is it keeping so there’s two issues here, actually. Not only the line is horrible. You can see it from here. It’s too tight. I don’t think it’s overtaking. It’s just like one kart length too tight, because there’s like a white line here. So it’s not only the line is tight, so again, we go back to the line, but also is braking is so bad. Is coming off the brakes. It’s not using look at RPMs here. It’s not holding the brakes like the blue is coming off. So tight line not coming like, you know, very tight line coming off the brakes early. It’s a recipe for speeding too much in the mid corner, and you will have very low speed. Then, you know, you can’t see him going very wide. But of course, if you’re too tight, you go too fast in here. And you know, stopping the karts, of course, with the brakes you’re gonna go to, you’re gonna low, get the too low speed in the mid corner.

Remember what we just said

So yeah, keep that in the back of your mind. Remember what we just said, which is, the entry is everything basically affects 90, like 90 100% of the times it affects all the problems that you will have on the mid exit. So if your entry isn’t quite right, I mean, and you have, of course, something happening on in your if you’re looking at your data, and you see there’s a problem in a specific corner, and you’re like, um, too slow here. Always go back to the entry. You will see that 90% of the times the problem will be on the entry in the line. So you’re not placing the kart in the right place with the speed. You’re either going too quick or too slow just because you chose to break too far, too late or too early and or the inputs. So, you know, maybe this, the line is correct, the approaching speed is correct. But because you are simply and also the steering, you know, if you’re like, some kids are like, even being a bit like a abrupt to the steering, like the it’s not smooth, and because of that, and they like, sometimes they’re doing like, some shake, like they’re shaking the steering. It’s very strange. Sometimes some kids do this, and like to just feel the kart on the brakes, like and the brake, and they do, like that. It’s, I don’t know what they would do this. And then they’re just so by doing so they are like, yeah, just offsetting the kart, and then they’re going straight again, all right, or just not holding the brakes properly. And again, it affects the speed, or they’re keeping some throat on the brakes, and again, it affects the speed and they just go straight. So remember, entry affects everything in the corner, and the rest of the corner is going to be, you know, affected by the entry. So if you have, if you have something going on in a corner, always go back to your entry and look at what happened, both in the data and the video. Okay.