Speed Secrets: Adapting to a New Car

How to be fast, fast when adapting to new or changing car.

Last weekend, I raced at a Lucky Dog event — a 7-hour race on Saturday, and another on Sunday — along with a couple of good friends (who just happen to be great drivers, too). As these kinds of events go, there wasn’t much time to learn the car. It was pretty much just jump in and figure it out as quickly as possible.

Then, a few days later, Jeff Braun a…