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A corner has three points, there's your turn in, there's your apex, which is the inside of the corner, and then we have our exit. The real key to going through that corner fast is you got to connect these dots and what we want to do is feed your head full of information ahead of time, so that you can make decisions at speed by the time you get there.

To do that, I'm completely reliant upon my vision. I need to be able to see, and see far ahead, and see me looking way through these turns. My head's on a swivel, my eyes are constantly moving to the next reference. I'm trying to gauge my hand and my feet inputs to balance this car and to keep it online. And the faster the car is, the more important that is. So in a McLaren 720, my vision is way down the track.

As you're arriving at this corner, you kind of want to mentally draw that line, that picture in your mind. And as you get there you want to just feed your way through that line.

So there's a few specific things I want to look for. One is I'm looking for break markers. The next thing is I'm looking for my turn-in reference. Where do I want to begin steering? Once I see that, I'm looking at my apex, and then up to my exit so I can tell how much room I have to track out.

We know that elevated vision is so important in fast lap times and in being safe, but what is important to always remember is that your hands are directly connected to your eyes. So wherever you're looking your hands, they're going to lead with it. That's target fixation. Where target fixation gets you in trouble, is when things are going wrong. If you're looking at the guardrail over there, if you're looking at the tire wall over there, or the car over the here, you're probably going to go there, because your hands are going to lead straight over there. And that's something we want to avoid.

So that's important for you as drivers to know when things go wrong in a car. Never give up. If you're sliding sideways, if a car is out of control, look at what's safe. Look up the track. Look at the acre of grass to the ride. If you look there, you're going to safely go there. But the real key here is to keep your eyes up, two to three steps ahead of yourself all the time. This, when you add it all together, leads to fast lap times and it leads to being safe on track.

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