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Originally Posted by ddeflyer
I've improved many orders of magnitude over where I started but when I get a ride with some of the better coaches I am still astonished by how much vastly smoother their driving is. I can't really fully describe it, but the more I get better the more I realize how much further I have to go.
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This is definitely true, and where it has hit home the most for me was at an ice racing track this last January with the local Audi club. If you got a ride with someone who was pretty good (but not amazing), you'd see them constantly making little corrections, sawing at the wheel a bit, and similar (though they were still driving impressively fast for how slick the ice was). However, if you got a ride with the best driver at the track, he was going substantially faster, while making fewer inputs (and smaller inputs) and almost never correcting mid corner with anything other than small throttle modulations. It was really an amazing thing to experience.
Now, I will admit that I have very little experience riding around on a dry track (and even less experience driving around on a dry track), but at least on the ice (where I have spent a fair amount of time attempting to drive fast), the smoothness and use of relatively small inputs really made a huge difference.