Reflexions on Sim racing and mindset.
Tires, check, brakes, check, setup, check, mindset? What? What does a mindset have to do with racing? I never thought I would be this unprepared for a race after so much practice. Lining up to my grid spot with all these different cars around me, I had many things, but was missing the proper mindset. These lines that I adapted for me are a credit to Shivam Kumar who started his racing mindset discussion and how having a Growth Mindset helped (see his great article at https://medium.com/mindsets/a-different-racing-line-how-mindsets-changed-my-laptimes-c4d91900e02f ). When I first got into sim racing, the only thing I really thought about was going fast and finishing P1 (or as close as I could to P1), but I did not think about the driver (or the strategy for that matter). I very quickly discovered that racing is hard and frustrating, that is, depending on the simulation level and the assists you use (in my case I was trying for no assists and bots or leagues at high levels). I am pretty ...