Professor Pobst Is Back With Another Racing Lesson: The Science Behind The Racing Line


Professor Pobst Is Back With Another Racing Lesson: The Science Behind The Racing Line

Have you ever played a game like Gran Turismo or Forza with a kid whose entire comprehension of track etiquette is knowing how to bounce off of you so that you end up in the tire wall and he ends up taking first place…again? Sucks, doesn’t it? Now imagine a track day and you have some guy in a BMW M3 who is convinced that the fastest way around the course is found while sideways. That isn’t how it works in the real world, no matter what movies would have you believe. Randy Pobst, Motor Trend’s tamed racing driver, is back with his informative series, this time with an instruction on the dynamics involved with picking the proper racing line on a track. He will demonstrate the proper out-in-out method of nailing a corner, why that’s the ideal method, modifications to the method, and more. And if you’re lucky, he might drive a Cadillac ATS-V in enough circles that you’ll get to see him puke in the nearly $70,000 saloon.


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