{"id":4428,"date":"2025-02-08T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:41:26","slug":"newbie-alert-racing-is-not-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/es\/newbie-alert-racing-is-not-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Newbie Alert: Racing is Not Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Are you feeling the need for some speed and lateral Gs this winter but Utah facilities are closed? Don\u2019t forget that one option is to head south. Specifically, Dream Racing, at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, or Exotics Racing, at SpeedVegas Motorsports Park, are happy to get you on track in a supercar. It was just a couple of winters ago that I got my introduction to the track with Dream Racing. That&#8217;s when I learned that racing and driving are very different things.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sfsi_widget sfsi_shortcode_container\"><div class=\"norm_row sfsi_wDiv\"  style=\"width:360px;text-align:left;\"><div style='width:40px; height:40px;margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px; ' class='sfsi_wicons shuffeldiv' ><div class='inerCnt'><a class='sficn' data-effect='fade_in' target='_blank' rel='noopener'  href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/utahmotornews' id='sfsiid_facebook_icon' style='width:40px;height:40px;opacity:0.6;'  ><img data-pin-nopin='true' alt='Facebook' title='Facebook' src='https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-icons\/images\/icons_theme\/flat_square\/flat_square_facebook.png' width='40' height='40' style='' class='sfcm sfsi_wicon' data-effect='fade_in'   \/><\/a><div class=\"sfsi_tool_tip_2 fb_tool_bdr sfsiTlleft\" style=\"opacity:0;z-index:-1;\" id=\"sfsiid_facebook\"><span class=\"bot_arow bot_fb_arow\"><\/span><div class=\"sfsi_inside\"><div  class='icon1'><a href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/utahmotornews' target='_blank' rel='noopener'><img data-pin-nopin='true' class='sfsi_wicon' alt='Facebook' title='Facebook' src='https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-icons\/images\/visit_icons\/Visit_us_fb\/icon_Visit_us_en_US.png' \/><\/a><\/div><div  class='icon2'><div class=\"fb-like\" width=\"200\" data-href=\"https%3A%2F%2Futahmotornews.com%2Fes%2Fnewbie-alert-racing-is-not-driving%2F\"  data-send=\"false\"  data-layout=\"button_count\"  ><\/div><\/div><div  class='icon3'><a target='_blank' rel='noopener' href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Futahmotornews.com%2Fes%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F4428' style='display:inline-block;'  > <img class='sfsi_wicon'  data-pin-nopin='true' alt='fb-share-icon' title='Facebook Share' src='https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-icons\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div style='width:40px; 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height:40px;margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px; ' class='sfsi_wicons shuffeldiv' ><div class='inerCnt'><a class='sficn' data-effect='fade_in' target='_blank' rel='noopener'  href='https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utahmotornews\/' id='sfsiid_instagram_icon' style='width:40px;height:40px;opacity:0.6;'  ><img data-pin-nopin='true' alt='Instagram' title='Instagram' src='https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-icons\/images\/icons_theme\/flat_square\/flat_square_instagram.png' width='40' height='40' style='' class='sfcm sfsi_wicon' data-effect='fade_in'   \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"sfsi_holder\" class=\"sfsi_holders\" style=\"position: relative; float: left;width:100%;z-index:-1;\"><\/div><script>window.addEventListener(\"sfsi_functions_loaded\", function()\n\t\t\t{\n\t\t\t\tif (typeof sfsi_widget_set == \"function\") {\n\t\t\t\t\tsfsi_widget_set();\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}); <\/script><div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>As we stepped out of my car at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, advanced fighters from Nellis Air Force Base ripped the clear air overhead. The sound reminded me of my own Air Force flying days and drove home that it was a day for speed. I\u2019ve done plenty of exciting things but driving fast on a track had eluded me. I was finally about to fix that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My extraordinarily-thoughtful wife realized that an on-track exotic car experience was the perfect gift for her performance-addicted husband. So she hooked me up with a Dream Racing four-lap package for Christmas. Doug, a colleague and friend who is every bit the gearhead I am, joined me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lambo-Crista2000x-1024x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4438\" style=\"width:697px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lambo-Crista2000x-980x570.jpg 980w, https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lambo-Crista2000x-480x279.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Driver Prep<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We arrived early enough to drool over McLarens, Porsches, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, etc. decorating Dream Racing\u2019s storefront. Entering the clean facility, we were checked in cordially and introduced to our Brazilian race-driver instructor. We then watched a video describing how to navigate their 1.2-mile, nine-turn road course safely and speedily. I should mention that they offered to let us double the number of laps we&#8217;d reserved for a reasonable upcharge. Doug thought for a second and said, &#8220;we&#8217;ll do it.&#8221; He then said, &#8220;My treat, Dr. Bairett. Thanks for setting this up.&#8221; Could the day get any better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking to the track, our instructor explained that <em>driving<\/em> is something he does in his family car. Meanwhile, <em>racing<\/em> is a sport that leverages physics and one&#8217;s car to fly around a track as fast as possible. We soon discovered that he was making it his personal mission to get two older second-career professionals to really move!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"875\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Stable2Capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4437\" style=\"width:723px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Stable2Capture.jpg 875w, https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Stable2Capture-480x219.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 875px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Track Intro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;We started in a 540 hp Lamborghini Urus SUV, as passengers, for a high-speed &#8220;sighting lap.\u201d It familiarized us with the course and the proper racing line, including where to brake, accelerate, etc. (Who knew an SUV could move like that?) After some photos with the Porsche Cayman GTS we&#8217;d reserved, Doug and our instructor were off. Doug returned to the pit area beaming, but we didn&#8217;t have a chance to talk. The Cayman was still running and it was my turn to fly low.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our instructor&#8217;s errand was to get me to move that car <em>fast<\/em> and he never let up. The experience recalled transitioning from a basic jet trainer (T-37) in pilot training, to the afterburning, supersonic T-38. Things were happening so fast the first time I took off in a T-38 that I felt like I was hanging on to the trailing edge by my fingertips. Similarly, on the track it was all I could do to look and think ahead to the next turn. For eight laps I faced some serious &#8220;back seat&#8221; driving\u2014yep, felt like pilot training. However, our instructor was quite successful in getting my lap times down.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CaymanGTSCapture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4442\" style=\"width:755px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CaymanGTSCapture2.jpg 989w, https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CaymanGTSCapture2-980x599.jpg 980w, https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CaymanGTSCapture2-480x293.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 989px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Racing vs. Driving<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So now that I&#8217;ve had a taste of the track, how do I describe the difference between driving and racing? Honestly, one reason I selected the Cayman GTS is that I\u2019ve considered buying one. Yet after 10 minutes behind the wheel I can&#8217;t say much about how it <em>drives<\/em>: I was mostly just trying to catch up to it. I had never been on a track, had never used paddle shifters, and had never <em>really<\/em> tried to max perform a car. I can say that the Cayman GTS <em>races<\/em> great. It&#8217;s a brilliantly-balanced machine that provides constant feedback when testing your limits. Someday I still hope to <em>drive<\/em> one since I have zero memory of the layout, features, ride feel, or much of what I normally equate with driving a car.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I did experience was a track filling the windshield; lefts and rights coming faster and faster. On the occasional straightaway, my focus was still hustling as quickly as possible to the next turn. It&#8217;s more about the next turn than the car, so you <em>must<\/em> be looking and thinking ahead. The Cayman was obviously a big part of it all, but peripheral: an extension of me doing something fast and furious (forgive the clich\u00e9) rather than something I was &#8220;driving.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DougCapture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DougCapture.jpg 613w, https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DougCapture-480x267.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 613px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When driving, even when pushing hard, you probably don&#8217;t want to put undue wear on vehicle components. If it&#8217;s your car, you get to pay for repairs and replacements. When racing, that mostly goes out the window. The engine, brakes, tires, etc. are now tools to be used\u2015borderline abused\u2015to minimize lap times. Of course <em>exceeding<\/em> a car&#8217;s limits slows you because spinning out or leaving the track means you&#8217;re not moving around it. I quickly found myself approaching turns at high speed, getting on the brakes <em>hard<\/em>\u2015usually not hard enough for the instructor\u2015often hanging on the limits of the tires, and repeatedly <em>flooring<\/em> the accelerator as the steering wheel opened up while coming out of a turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the racing switch clicked on for me about the fourth time around a sweeping 180-degree turn. The instructor was urging, &#8220;stay on the gas, stay on the gas.&#8221; I had just <em>started<\/em> catching up to the Cayman I was operating\u2014thanks, Doug, for the extra laps\u2014and realized that the tires were squealing as I approached a mild drift. At that moment I had an epiphany: <em>these are not my tires, not my brakes, and it&#8217;s not my engine, so I don&#8217;t have to worry about them<\/em>. That&#8217;s when I gave up on mere driving and started racing. I started going faster and faster until, all too soon, it was time to pull into the pits. It had been a workout, but our instructor really knew his business and we had an absolute blast!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_20220106_130936308-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4440\" style=\"width:607px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Post-Track<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dream Racing staff continued taking care of us, offering, but not pushing, plaques and videos of our experience. I asked how fast first-timers tend to go in the Cayman GTS. They said that a typical best lap is between 1:05 and 1:10. That made me feel okay about my best lap of 1:01.88.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0If I had it to do over, I would have memorized the track and how to approach each turn <em>before<\/em> showing up. Now I get why race drivers do exactly that. There was a handy &#8220;Our Tracks&#8221; link on the Dream Racing website that I should have found and studied up front. One thing I wouldn&#8217;t change is the Porsche Cayman GTS. Yes there are more-powerful and more-exotic cars available, for a price. But the 340 hp learning curve was <em>plenty<\/em> for me to keep up with\u2015really <em>catch<\/em> up with\u2015the first time out. If growing your skills is a goal, it may not be worth it to shell out for a higher-performance exotic until you start to master the basic physics and techniques to be halfway good. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"994\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LamboCapture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4443\" style=\"width:757px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LamboCapture.jpg 994w, https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LamboCapture-980x402.jpg 980w, https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LamboCapture-480x197.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 994px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Gateway Drug<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The Right Stuff <\/em>(1979), Tom Wolfe implies that military test pilots making mistakes in their new Corvettes weren&#8217;t nearly as good at driving as they thought they were. Correspondingly, Doug and I were amazed by how much we&#8217;d learned about racing, despite decades of driving (and flying) experience, and how much we still had to learn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably the main thing that two past-their-prime, relatively-average drivers agreed on was that we had just spent 10 minutes each that would keep us grinning for a month! Like flying the T-38, the effort of learning is more than rewarded by the smile it plasters on your face. Consider trying something different the next time you&#8217;re in Las Vegas, because Dream Racing absolutely delivered. But be careful! That track intro is a gateway drug!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u00a9 RBairett, 2024<\/em><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/StableCapture-1024x479.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/StableCapture-1024x479.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/StableCapture-980x458.jpg 980w, https:\/\/utahmotornews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/StableCapture-480x225.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exotic-car track experience in Las Vegas is a fantastic way to beat the Utah winter blues. 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