Say you're braking real hard for a tight right after a long strait (like many track's turn 1), you've got your vision up either looking for your turn in or out to the turn, and RIGHT BEFORE TURN IN you perceive movement off-track to the left at 9~10 o'clock in your periphery vision. You didn't/don't see any flags and can only assume it's an animal that a flagger hasn't spotted. Should you:
a) Shift your vision to identify the moving object.
b) Keep concentrating on your turn.
Thanks

 

both.

 

Just slow down!! If you know something is going on where something shouldn't be going on, slow down, so what if you blow the corner (speed wise), there are 9 more to practice in that lap

 

I am not sure I am following this; if coming into a hard braking right and you catch something at 9 to 10 o'clock (dead opposite of where you are going), I say get the bleep out of Dodge. If you catch it anywhere behind you (from 7 to 4), yeah find it before you turn in. Just my thoughts.

 

Keep concentrating on your turn and go. If it's at 10 o'clock, there's probably little you can do anyways if you're going into the corner full bore. If it's going to hit you, you don't wanna watch it Just go where you were planning, as fast as you can.

Warren

 

Venison tonight!!

If I had noticed it in my peripheral vision, I'd be aware that it might show up again in a bad spot, and would dial it down a bit, but I wouldn't look at it. It's been proven to me time and time again that you(or I, anyway) drive where you look. Turn 1 at Summit or VIR are not places to go left.

This also applies to spinning cars, off-line cars, and anything else. I have to conciously avoid looking at the cars in front of me, and just look at the track. Otherwise I end up going where they went, even onto bad lines, or the dirt. If you're looking as far down the track as you can, you'll see anything that happens between you and there.

 

I would WAY rather look for a way out of trouble than to look AT the source of trouble...

Kirk

 

Deers suck. The poor things.