Bertrand Godin has several things to teach me before I can even think about installing myself in one of the Karts for the rental of Sh Karting. We therefore sit at a picnic table, on the edge of the track, which is developed very close to Mont Saint-Hilaire, in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu.
From the outset, Mr. Godin tackles the safety rules, too often ignored by people “who arrive here and say to themselves: I will tear them all!” ». Humility, vigilance and respect are watchwords. “We don’t only want people to put their helmet, but also that they put their heads in the helmet!” “Exclaims Mr. Godin in a laugh.
In normal times, in a competition kart, the pilots wear coast protectors; Adhesion is such that the ribs can break. That much? “That much. It’s amazing, ”says our teacher.
“The more it sticks, the more physical it is,” he adds. You do 10 laps and there are people who are completely washed. »»
Do you think I’m going to be burned sometimes? I ask. “You’re going to be hot!” He warns me.
It is now time to look at major lessons. Management is directly linked to the sense of observation, explains Mr. Godin. It is “knowing where to look at what moment”. As an example, he uses the Tetris game.
“When the blocks start to build, you feel like it’s going faster. But it’s not going faster; You have less distance to see, analyze and take action. This is the reason why you have to see the whole. »»
Photo Sarah Mongeau-Birkett, the press
The driver and automotive columnist Bertrand Godin
Management is also geometry on the move: knowing how to position yourself so that you can accelerate as soon as possible.
Bertrand Godin
When Mr. Godin tackles the importance of knowing how to “take a turn”, I explain to him that this is exactly what causes me to nervous this morning. “There, we fall into the second gear of driving: the human factor. Stress, ”he said.
This is where the principle of selective attention is taken into account in relation to shared attention. “In Tetris, if you look at the block to the bottom, have you just got away from time to see the other block?” Yes. You can’t do anything anymore. »»
Basically, the idea is to have a shared attention between what comes before me and the following. “To get your clarification, if you don’t look enough in advance your entry point, your rope point and your outing point – that’s what determines your trajectory -, you will miss the turn. »»
In summary, “it’s always the eyes before the hands”.
