Jayson Uribe's corner plan: brake marker, apex, then exit

Start with a brake marker

Jayson Uribe has raced in the US and moved his life to Europe to race there. In an interview with TrackDNA, he gave his order of operations for a corner. Step one is a brake marker: a fixed place on the track. A rough area or a feeling is too vague for him. From there he thinks about the apex, then the exit and what the next part of the track needs.

He summed it up like this: "At the end of the day, the order of operations will be brake marker, apex, and how fast I can get the bike off of the edge of the tire." The priorities can shift a little from corner to corner, he said, but the sequence stays the same.

Turn-in on a superbike is less fixed

Earlier in his career, Uribe worked from fixed turn-in points. On superbikes the turn-in became more fluid. The exact cue could move from lap to lap. What mattered more was being in the right place at the right time.

He also said he learned one way to ride. It worked up to a point, and then he kept crashing. Watching other riders on the same bikes and tyres showed him that different situations need different styles. When he moved to more powerful bikes, he had to change how he used his body.

Rushing the entry

Asked which mistake he still makes, Uribe said rushing the entry: too excited on the brake, too aggressive with the first input, and getting ahead of the job.

His fix is to take a breath and remind himself what his job and his priority are in that corner. TrackDNA describes this as a way to get back to the sequence instead of reacting.

Short runs, then review

For Uribe, a bad session is one where the problem isn't changing and he isn't learning. He rides two or three laps, evaluates, and comes back in. He prefers that to lap after lap with no change.