I can’t help with the Top 10 driver excuses, so I’ll share the top 5 keys to speed; then you won’t need the excuses?
1 – Reduce your sensation of speed
Using imagery/visualization in combination with the experiences you’ve had, you can create a sensory-rich model of the track in your mind. Then, when you drive, your unconsciously mind can simply do pattern matches against you model, which frees your conscious mind to do other thins like the next key.
2 – Increase sensitivity to Forces and Traction
By taking the conscious attention you freed with key 1 and focusing it on the spaces in between what you ‘do’ (Braking, turn-in, apexing, throttle application, etc) you can find the speed that hides in between your actions. That’s where your causes become effects (your inputs generate forces).
3 – Get the tires on a plane
Once you can really feel forces and traction, then you can confidently push the tires to they’re traction and slip angle limits. Why ‘on a plane’? A speed boat handles like crap when it’s not on a plane because it’s designed to function on a plane; likewise with tires, they must be used with the proper loads and slip angles to feel good and perform well.
4 – Control the Polar Shift
No, not the global warming thing. Your car naturally does a polar rotation around its center of mass in every corner. If you want to be really fast, you have to take control of where and how quickly that happens. Doing so, will allow you to accomplish key 5.
5 – Drive a trajectory on a line
REALLY fast drivers do not just drive a line because ‘the line’ does not take into account the length and width described by the tire contact patches. Knowing this allows you to bend the ‘line rules’ to extract that little bit of performance from the car/tires
I can’t stop myself, so here are two last bonus tips:
Many people will tell you that you must get Seat Time to get fast. You will need some Seat Time to improve, but getting it does not guarantee that you will improve. If you want to get fast, what you MUST do is put in the effort to extract and apply the LESSONS that are hidden within your Seat Time. If you do that, you will keep moving up the learning curve. If you don’t your will likely plateau somewhere and no amount of seat time will help.
Last thing: NEVER go on the track without having a specific improvement goal for the session.