If you want to know the honest to god truth -- I really don't want to know how to do any of it. I like to know WHAT is being done and WHY... and the reason for that is so that as a driver I can come back and say "it got edgy" or "it got tight" or "it now feels loose". Maybe I'll understand enough about the "dive" and "squat" etc that if we mess with stuff I'll be able to report that it "dove and stayed down"... Or that it was loose on exit rather than being loose on turn in.
I really only want to know that stuff so that I can tell Ron... and then he'll figure out what to change and we'll discuss what was done and why and what I should look for and think about on the next session.
He's a magician at getting me to give him feedback he can use. If he wasn't in my corner -- I'd just go out and drive my ass off and continue to describe the car as "the pissed off bull".
I've learned a TON --- but that doesn't mean I have to know everything about suspension that took a guy 30 years to learn. And I don't want to. I've been working on these POS cars for 2/3rds of my life. I kind of like living large and having someone that REALLY KNOWS what's going on that will fix whatever "it" is quickly. If we can't fix it quickly - it goes in mothballs and the other car gets driven. I'm not getting all worked up over missing a 20 minute session.
Much of what I learned in my professional life is to delegate to people that are better at something than I am. I don't need to be a lawyer to understand what the lawyer is telling me.... And I'm smart enough to understand that because I understood what the lawyer was talking about doesn't make me a lawyer.
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