What is your pre-race schedule
 

How do you guys prepare for a AutoCross(or trackday w/e)? How far before the big day do you start preparing for that specific race? What kind of things do you do to the car, and yourself?

For autocross, I go to sleep a little earlier than normal.

For track days, I inspect the car on the lift, bleed brakes, change pads, etc. then load the car with everything I need, drive to the track the night before and get some more rest.

For races (w2w), we do whatever we need to do to prep the car, load up a crap load of parts, get the trailer, load the car, drive whereever in the country we are going, drink. 8 hours bottle to throttle ;)

Depends if you're already track-ready, or if you're frantically installing parts/making changes lol. Day before is a good day to check pressures, fluids, tightness, etc etc.

For drift: Typically I pack the afternoon before, load up the race car and support vehicle with wheels/tires, spare parts, FSM, majority of my toolbox, etc etc. Cars loaded by night, get a good night sleep...something I keep forgetting :P Have to get up stupid early to meet the Sikky group crazy early to be at the track a little early. Always leave extra time.

most of my prep was mental. The day before was spent going over the turns, and calming any nerves i had about any part of the track. At the track, I would look check the car just like any other, even though I knew they had it good to go, just to clear my head of anything that could potentially take my thoughts off the next turn. 90% mental.

Aaah. Forgot to put that :P

Nowadays there's enough youtube vids of most tracks that you can do virtual runs of them

For autocross, load crap in car (umbrella,snacks, water, helmet, jacket, numbers, etc.) the night before. I don't mentally prepare. I just arrive. Keep it simple.