8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

When you really care about the art of driving, there are a few skills, techniques and experiences that reaffirm your love for getting behind the wheel
8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

Nailing an apex

8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

Track days are a great way to learn the limits of your car. Learning a track and finding the fastest route through a corner is incredibly satisfying, and the first time you nail your line gives epic satisfaction.

Listening to a good song late at night

8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

Cruising along at night listening to a great song can be a very cathartic experience. There’s something special about a deserted road and chilled out music.

Perfecting heel and toe

8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

Thanks to rev-matching software, this is a skill that’s going the way of the dodo, but for those of us who enjoy the technical side of driving, smoothly downshifting with a quick blip of the throttle can’t be beat.

Getting into a good rhythm

8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

One of the most important aspects of car control is mastering the way the car’s weight shifts about. Getting momentum under control, and using it to your advantage, is an advanced technique that sets you above the average driver.

Pulling an epic burnout

8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

Burnouts might look like childish, yobbish behaviour from the outside, and, to be honest, they feel that way from the inside, too! That’s why pulling them off is so much fun. Still, getting a burnout right takes a decent amount of skill, so laying down long ‘elevens’ will never stop being satisfying.

Catching a slide

8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

We’re not talking drifting (yet), we’re talking getting a bit too enthusiastic into a corner and catching an oversteer moment. Turning into a slide becomes an instinctive action that saves fast drivers the world over from big, expensive crashes.

Holding a drift

8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

Sometimes when the back gets out it’s intentional, and holding onto a long, arching drift takes supreme car control. Bringing the footwork and steering inputs together to ensure you don’t spin out isn’t something you can learn overnight. It takes plenty of practice and patience. The results are awesome.

Shifting like a boss

8 Simple Pleasures People Who Love Driving Have Experienced

Knowing when to shift is a basic skill that everyone who drives a manual car must master, but really nailing the shift in sympathy with your engine takes true knowledge of your car. Shifting without upsetting the balance of the car will make a huge difference to your lap times.

Sponsored Posts

Comments

David 27

expected a street drag race win by the cover, disappointed :(

05/06/2016 - 17:57 |
2 | 2

Ekmi 8 mk4wo.d8y k o mo87mo

05/07/2016 - 00:54 |
4 | 12
TheLittleJettaThatCould

#9 Finding a friend at 3AM on a canyon road and going full Initial D

05/06/2016 - 18:00 |
200 | 0

Actually having canyon roads would be a start… hates living in flat land

05/08/2016 - 07:06 |
8 | 0
Anonymous

You forgot the pleasure of crash into a crowd.

05/06/2016 - 18:07 |
414 | 24
SupercarClub

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

05/06/2016 - 18:16 |
676 | 16
therenaultguy

Isn’t this a repost? I remember reading something similar a while ago…

05/06/2016 - 18:10 |
0 | 0
SupercarClub

How about listening to the sensation of your exhaust in a tunnel

05/06/2016 - 18:17 |
66 | 0

Or a deserted road lined with trees on both sides. Or a street packed with buildings. Or any place with the right acoustics for that matter

05/06/2016 - 23:41 |
12 | 0
Ian Herrington

That foxbody on the cover tho.

05/06/2016 - 18:37 |
52 | 2
Fernando Jambeiro

Can’t stop watching the heel and toe gif…

05/06/2016 - 18:49 |
36 | 0
Antiprius
  1. When you run a 100 shot of NOS on your Mitsubishi Eclipse and don’t blow the welds on your intake.
05/06/2016 - 19:11 |
160 | 2

DANGER TO MANIFOLD “Shut up!”

05/07/2016 - 17:29 |
28 | 0
On the Apex

Just took a driving lesson today. Didn’t let the car stall and nailed the parking. Best day ever :)

05/06/2016 - 19:26 |
18 | 2

First lesson?

05/08/2016 - 02:45 |
2 | 0
Anonymous

I’d like to say: “I can relate to all these things”, but I don’t have a car, nor have driven one… Dem feels :(

05/06/2016 - 19:51 |
4 | 2