Track day coaching
Most track days and HPDE events won't let a coach ride with you, and the instructor you do get is a volunteer with a different car. Send one lap of onboard video instead and get it reviewed by a professional driver coach with 25 years in motorsport.
01 · What you get
A recorded voice-over of your full onboard: where you brake, where you turn in, what your hands and feet are doing, and what to change, corner by corner.
Where you send data, your traces are overlaid against a reference lap and the differences explained. Speed, throttle, brake and steering, corner by corner.
Not twenty notes. The three things costing you the most time at your track in your car, ranked.
One specific exercise so the next track day is practice, not repetition.
Miata to GT3, HPDE 1 to advanced run group, Laguna Seca to your local club circuit. Phone footage is fine.
02 · Why it works
A track day coach in the right seat sees your lap once, at speed, while trying not to hit anything. A review of your onboard video sees it as many times as it takes, with the trace alongside, and the notes are written down so you can re-read them in the paddock.
HPDE and lapping-day drivers at every level, from a first novice group to drivers chasing a time in advanced. Most of the time saved in a track day review comes from vision and brake release, not from bravery, so the gains tend to be biggest for drivers who have done five to twenty days and have plateaued.
Alex Waters spent sixteen years as a McLaren driver coach, ran the driver program at The Concours Club in Miami and the member driving experience at Singer Drivers Club, and has coached for Ferrari, Porsche, Aston Martin, Bentley and others. He still races. Read a real review to see what comes back.
In-person coaching is excellent and expensive: a day of professional one-to-one coaching at a track costs more than a season of reviews. A review is the coaching for every weekend in between, and the way to arrive at the next in-person day with the basics sorted.
03 · Questions
No. One clean lap of forward-facing video from a phone, GoPro or dash cam is enough. If you have VBOX, MoTeC or sim telemetry, include it and the review gets sharper.
Most do, with the camera mounted securely. If yours doesn't, a lap from a previous event or a sim lap of the same circuit still works.
No. The review is pitched at the level you're at, and the fastest improvement usually comes in the first few sessions.
Within 48 hours of a complete upload. Three-pack and season clients get 24 hours.
Yes. The review is about your technique, and the notes reference the actual corners at your circuit. Alex has worked at over forty circuits across the US, UK, Europe and Australia.
04 · Start
One lap of video. Corner-by-corner instruction, three priorities and a drill, within 48 hours, from $199.