Speed Secrets: How’s Your Pattern-Matching Skills?

Use many cues to avoid trouble on track.

Experts in practically every activity, including performance and race driving, are better at pattern matching than non-experts.

The best racers do not get involved in as many crashes as others because they recognize a pattern that says, “I’ve seen this before, and it usually turns out bad, so I’m going to position myself in a way that allows me to adapt.”