プレスリリース - MRC 101 - Part II

MRC 101 - Part II

Resuming the interview with Blazefp and Francisco Pires from last week, we now proceed to the second part where we'll talk about the driver's evolution over his career and what to do to improve it.

Evolution (driver's training and series):

Blazefp's Magazine: One of the most important factors of a driver is his development over his career. Which advises can you provide in order to increase this process?

Blazefp: There's no way to get around it, training represents a major portion on any driver's evolution. It's extremely important to get to know what you're training, don't trust your suppositions based on the training's names, it's just not worth the risk. To learn more about training I advice looking it up on the manual, here:
http://www.myracingcareer.com/en/manual/#attributes

As you can see there, what defines your driver's rate of learning is intelligence. But should it be trained? In my opinion, no. Either a driver starts off clever already or it isn't worth to loose time practicing it. With this time we could be training other skills more relevant for racing. Its only problem is really that it takes too much time.

As of extra training, they might seem expensive initially but if you get to higher series you'll see they are quite accessible (this does not apply to intensive training though, that's always expensive). Typically the most boring ones are the more effective. Let me give you an example:
A five days normal extra training costs 25 grant and improves, let's say 50% of a certain skill. However, the one day normal extra training improves, for example 15% and costs 5 grant. In the end, if you do the last one 5 times (over 5 days) you'll pay the same as the other one but your driver will improve 75% (5 x 15 = 75).

Francisco Pires: Yeah, we often shirk work when we see too much of it ahead.
But don't forget, the more improved we are, the harder it is to keep improving.


Blazefp's Magazine: And in what series do you advice young managers to start?

Blazefp: To be honest, any one. In the beginning of their journey they are very similar. Rookie series would be the easiest one but since everyone's signed up for it by default and the rating is so low, it wouldn't be my first choice.
If my objective is to gain as much rating as possible on the shortest amount of time, I think I'd go for a major or regional series. The competitors are not so hard so there's a good chance of winning points. This, of course, provided that you have sufficient rating points and money to sign up for it. Once again I stress the significance of single races which, in this stage before the series, are the only thing that can get you rating even if only slightly.

Nonetheless, because my objective wasn't winning everything but rather to get some fun (and still is), I kicked off on my home's series, the Portuguese series. I'd do it again given the chance.

You have to be aware of the competition, don't think that because you won a regional or national series you're already the best and you can compete in Formula 2. Go easy, there's time for everything.

Francisco Pires: Oh yeah, I won't forget those times. I was much less experienced and technically weaker. It might look like training is very slow but with 5 seasons behind my back I can't complain much, I improved quite well.

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And so it ends the second part of this interview.
We'd like to apologize for the delay on the publishing of this article but due a fire in the magazine's headquarters an earlier publish wasn't possible.

The third part will be published next Wednesday with special focus on races and how to prepare them.

Till there, keep you pedal to the medal.