Improving your composure

Composure doesn’t care how hard you drive. Every corner and every press of a pedal is measured against its own load, so a gentle bend and a committed one are judged the same way. That is why switching between a relaxed style and a quick one barely moves the number: the score reads the shape of what you did, not how much of it. Driving slower won’t raise it, and driving faster won’t lower it.

What does move it is the four faults your report names under Where the points went. Each one has a clean version, and each one can be practised on any road at any pace.

Two bites

A corner scored 100 is one arc: the steering load builds, peaks once, and unwinds. Two bites means the load dropped out of its peak and came back, which usually means the corner was read twice. It is the dearest fault, because the car was asked to change its mind mid-corner.

• Look through the corner to the exit before you turn in, so the wheel goes to one angle and stays there.
• If a corner tightens on you, let the car run a touch wide rather than adding a second helping of lock.
• On the pedals the same fault is a brake or throttle pressed twice. Decide the pressure first, then press once.

Sawing

How much the wheel or the pedal wobbled around the shape it was making, relative to that corner’s own load. A small shake in a hard corner is nothing. The same shake in a gentle bend is sawing, and it tells the car to keep re-settling.

• Hold the wheel at a quarter to three and let your shoulders stay still once the car is turned in.
• Pick the line early and trust it. Most sawing is a correction that was never needed.
• Brake with your ankle, heel on the floor, rather than your whole leg. Find the pressure and hold it still.

Corrections

A change of direction once the car is already turned in or the pedal already pressed. Every input has one build and one release, and anything more is a correction. The report counts them only when the load was already high, so the ordinary business of building and releasing never reads as one.

• Turn in a little later and more slowly, so one steady angle carries you to the apex.
• If you catch yourself straightening and re-turning mid-corner, your eyes went to the kerb. Look further.
• Let the pedal go in one direction only: on, held, then off. Settle the pressure once.

Sharp release

A release no faster than the build keeps the car settled. Unwinding the wheel in a hurry or stepping off a pedal upsets it, and the fault costs in proportion to how much sharper the release was than the build.

• Unwind the wheel at the pace you turned it in, matched to the throttle coming on.
• On the exit, let the car’s own track straighten the wheel instead of handing it back.
• Come off the brake as gradually as you went on, and lift off the throttle in a slow roll rather than a step.

Reading your own trend

With Premium, the report also lists the three moments that cost most on a drive, each pinned on the route and opening the replay right there, and says which fault has cost you most over your last ten drives. Pick that one fault and practise nothing else for a few drives. One thing at a time is how a habit changes, and the trend line will tell you when it has.

Your debrief reads the same facts and may close with a word of advice on them. It never invents a fault it was not handed, and it never makes speed the goal.