How to get faster lap times at Willow Springs Raceway

Описание: After injuring myself in a horrible ski accident in December of 2022, I had two months to recover from a punctured lung and 18 broken ribs in multiple places. I decided to start Full Throttle Driving Academy to help performance drivers achieve new personal bests. One of my favorite tracks is Willow Springs, so I learned how to do some rudimentary video editing and made a tutorial on how to optimally drive the track. Given the positive feedback we received that we helped drivers reduce lap times by 2 or more seconds, we knew we were onto something. We keep improving our quality and will be offering many more track tutorials in coming months (I have to drive them and record the data on our VBOX system!). We just finished up Utah Motorsports Campus Full Track AND Outer Loop.

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Learn all the nuances of how to optimally drive Willow Springs Raceway. Discover all the tips and tricks I've been taught over the years. Absorb a turn-by-turn deep-dive into every corner at Big Willow to unlock your potential.

0:00 Intro to Van Noy Racing
0:13 Willow Springs aerial view
0:55 Track Map
1:33 Unique challenges of Willow Springs
2:38 Beneficial camber to use!
3:33 Our cars used to teach
5:40 How to use this tutorial
7:27 Full-speed tutorial in Porsche GT3
9:27 Braking technique
11:02 How to drive the line
24:08 Racing lines and techniques
26:27 Pics and sign-off


I think it’s important for you to see, and hear, what it looks and sounds like to complete a lap at full speed. I have footage of me driving right behind a 997.2 Cup Car, which has a melodious, loud sound, allowing you to hear when we get off the throttle to brake and when we start feeding in the throttle.

In the video, I’ll annotate advice, tips and tricks progressively, starting with the basics and gradually moving onto more advanced nuances.
So, if you’re a beginner or intermediate, I suggest you watch the video all the way through, and likely watch it several times to absorb as much of the nuance as you can.

For intermediates and advanced drivers, you can perhaps skip ahead to the wheel-to-wheel racing footage in my Spec Boxster, as it shows me driving right behind a friend who’s going almost exactly the same pace as me, allowing you to see how he’s driving the track from my vantage point.
In the comments, feel free to start a dialogue with other racers and critique my driving. Like all racers, I’m a work in progress and on every lap I’ve ever driven, I’ve made mistakes. There is no such thing as the mythical perfect lap – it doesn’t exist. One of the existential truths of driving, and what makes this sport so complex, challenging and rewarding, is that you could always have done something just a little better to eek out a couple hundredths of a second.

I hope you enjoy this video, the first in a series my wife and I will be recording. We hope to help as many people as we can, so please subscribe, like and share the video with your driving buddies.