Motorsport Demands and Effective Practices Part 2: The Effective Practices
Motorsports are unique because there is the material factor, the car. The car is thus a factor that an athlete can engage in DP with, as discussed above. However, there are aspects of the material factor the athlete cannot utilize DP to help address physical, physiological, psychological, and competitive demands.
Expertise and Deliberate Practice
Deliberate practice (DP) is a fairly popular topic when it comes to discussing expertise in sports and other professions. So what is DP?
Ericsson (2008) originally constructed the definition of DP to have the following components:
Individual active engagement
Training crafted by a coach, teacher, or similar
Dedicated to the improvement of a particular action
Integration of immediate feedback
Space for problem-solving and evaluation
Repetition of the action to cultivate the action