You may have heard about mindfulness and all the benefits that come from practising it. The fact is that you gain a clearer mind and more mental power when using mindfulness daily.

Our founder, professional motorsport coach Tommy Schröter, guides you through a mindful meditation that you can use before practising in the simulator – or as preparation for a real life session.

You already experienced how practicing while performing another operation – counting – were both difficult and very efficient in the last video. This time, we will practice with only one eye. It may seem odd, but this is how you practice your eyes’ ability to focus. When only one eye has to do all the work, it needs to focus a lot more precise.

You may experience that you feel more focused – mentally – when using only one eye. That is a sideeffect, so just enjoy that!

Now, let’s try visualization: Replicating the brake trace with your eyes shut! When you can do this to perfection, your muscle memory is basically doing all the thinking, leaving plenty of capacity for your brain to focus on other things.

When you are in a pack of cars racing towards T1, it’s rather convenient to have the mental capacity to brake perfectly without losing focus on the surrounding cars and objects. It could actually gain you a position or two.

So you know how to count? And how to brake? Now try it simultaneously. Practise your brake trace while reciting the 3 times table (3-6-9-12-15-18-21) forwards and backwards. It seems simple, but when your brain is both counting and making your foot press the pedal to match the brake trace, you are basically doing pushups with your brain. After practicing while counting, now try without it. Do you notice how easy it seems now?

Brain Training will boost your mental capacity and enable your mind to process more information in the same period of time.

You’ve already mastered the tables in the last episode? Well done! This time, we’ll swap numbers for letters. Let’s start the spelling contest! Just like when you recited the three table forwards and backwards, try spelling names and words forwards and backwards while practicing with Baseline.

It’s not about getting a good grade; it’s about forcing the brain to spell a word while also getting your brake trace right.

Download our word list here or use your own words.

Another way to practice your mental capacity is to physically do something else while following the brake trace. In this video, Tommy will start juggling with one ball while following the brake trace, then adding another ball to the challenge.

It’s difficult, but doing this for 15-30 minutes per day will drastically improve your mental capacity. Not only in the car or sim, but also in your day to day life.