Coaching

Driver coaching

Mees coaches karters and car drivers: in the Mazda MX-5 Cup, the Supercar Challenge and on MV Motorsport’s car control and drift courses. He is not a veteran with twenty years of anecdotes — he is someone who has just made the step you are making, at a level where it counted, and who is still coached himself every week inside the KNAF Academy.

How it works

Three things I steer on

Test days are short and expensive. I want you to leave not just faster but knowing why — so that next time you can do it again without me. That is what I steer on, in this order.

Karting, and what comes after

A kart forgives nothing and moves nowhere. A car does both.

In a kart you brake in a straight line, on or off, and nothing shifts underneath you. The very things that make you quick there work against you in a car. If I coach you in the kart we build technique that survives the move; if you are already in a car we take out what did not make the trip. I made that step myself in 2025 and still remember exactly where it hurts.

Together we will:

Build technique that survives the move into a car
Brake with the weight transfer instead of against it
Read a car that slides, not one that only grips
Manage a set of tyres over a stint instead of over one lap
Work out which kart reflexes to keep and which to let go

One thing per run

Change two things at once and you have one useless lap.

A debrief only pays off if you leave the pits with exactly one thing you are doing differently, and an idea of how it should feel. That is how I work myself: data, a reference lap, one change at a time.

Together we will:

One goal per run, and say out loud how it should feel
Read data against a reference lap instead of against a lap time
Name the corner and the input, never just “faster”
Turn a debrief into something you can execute on the next run
Write down what worked, so a weekend builds instead of restarting

Fast on lap forty

One fast lap is a moment. A fast driver is a habit.

A qualifying lap buys you one grid slot; the race pays the points. That comes down to consistency, tyres and staying out of trouble in a full field. My own count stands at 28 race starts with one retirement through a mistake of my own.

Together we will:

Build reference points that still hold when you are tired
Weigh risk against gain per corner instead of per lap
Keep a tyre alive to the end of the stint
Pick the overtake that actually works in a full field
Finish — that is a skill, not luck

Practical

Who for: Karters and car drivers — Mazda MX-5 Cup, Supercar Challenge, car control and drift (MV Motorsport)
At the circuit: On test and training days when he is not racing himself. His own calendar comes first, so ask well in advance.
On the sim: Also available, and not as a second choice: learn a circuit before you stand on it, repeat technique without tyre costs, and stop depending on who is free when.
Where: Anywhere. He has already travelled to Spain for it, and kart circuits are a different list again — where you drive does not decide whether it can happen.
Rate: Depends on the day and the format. We agree it in the conversation.
Languages: Dutch and English

— Enquire

Ask for a day.

Send which class you race, whether you want to work at the circuit or on the sim, where, and the date you have in mind. You usually get an answer within two working days, with an honest yes or no on the date and a rate that fits the day.

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