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Porsche’s Driving School Won’t Just Teach You How to Be a Better Driver. It’ll Teach You About Yourself

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Like most things in life, there’s no cheat code to become a faster driver. It takes instruction from someone who knows what they’re doing, but beyond that, it takes repetition. Enough repetition, ideally, that you stop actively thinking about what to do in a specific situation, and the right behavior becomes your natural, automatic response.

The road to get quicker is a long one and truly never-ending if you’re committed enough. I appreciated just a piece of that journey out in Birmingham, Alabama, at Barber Motorsports Park, courtesy of the Porsche Track Experience (PTX) program.

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