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If that makes sense, like I did motorsports and\nlearned how to do it over the first five years to like even figure out what I was doing, where I\nthink you came in with a little bit more awareness and what needed to be done and you tried to hit\ntheir mark a little bit more early, maybe because you were older when you started, I'm not sure.\nNo, I feel like I like if you watch my early runs, it was a bunch of under driving followed\nby a bunch of over driving followed up by a bunch of under driving. I just wasn't in tune with the\nlimit at all of the vehicle and like in my mind, I was I was trash in the car. I was getting everything\nI could out of it, but like reflecting on the run at the end of it, it was just because I had that","canonicalId":"concept:limit-of-adhesion","priority":0.55,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The “limit of adhesion” is the point where a tire can no longer generate more grip before it starts to slide. 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