3. Hand positioning
“Tip three would be to remember your hand position on the steering wheel. Too often I see drivers with their hands towards the middle of the top of the steering wheel. I see this on in-car videos all the time.
“There was a classic hillclimb event that I did recently too. I’d been there a couple of years earlier and taken some photos, and there was one particular driver who had a really bad accident in his car. The year I was then competing he’d borrowed a really valuable car from a friend, and he crashed that one too. I went back and looked at the photos and realised his hands were next to each other on the top of the steering wheel. That’s not the way to control a car.
“Have your hands as wide as you can and try not to take them off the steering wheel. Crossing your arms helps you to put smoother steering inputs in and helps you straighten the car. Go for the quarter-to-three position rather than the ten-to-two.”
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