Is there a more important racing mantra than "slow in, fast out?"

Coasting saves fuel and can therefore be useful in endurance races.
Edit:
and tires and brakes
Edit 2:
There are historic cars without engine mapping and LMDH/LMH cars have LED lights for coasting.

 

You have engine mapping for that. And it probably affects fuel saving much more than coasting.

 

I'd say "smooth is fast".

 

Heard this yesterday from one of the english commentators of the 24h Le Mans race:
Stay out of the pits and don‘t hit anything!

 

Go floating through the corners as smooth as you can

 

Don’t ask someone how to take a corner if their tyres are still squealing from the last one.

 

“When you see the tree you’re driving into you have understeer, but if you can hear it you have oversteer.” - Walter Röhrl

 

You can’t win a race in the first corner, but you can lose the race in the first corner

 

Well, except for Monaco maybe.

 

“No heroics into sainte devote please”

 

"The backmarker is kingmaker"

 

Drive the track, not the car

 

If you want to successfully finish a longer race, I´d suggest to find a stable setup (or whatever for you feels comfortable) and then race at a comfortable speed. Being consistent can bring you quite some places up on the leaderboard, depending on what bunch of people you are racing against. Don´t make it a race consisting of qualifying laps, that would end your race sooner or later (but before the chequered flag, that´s for sure).

And never give up. Me and my mates usually race 60 min races, sometimes 45 mins, some even much longer than an hour. I have seen so many people crashing within the first three laps and pulling the plug - don´t do that. Other people might get into trouble as well. Concentrate and go on racing. It´s not over til it´s over.

 

I think Mantras should be a few words

 

You are perfectly right. After going through all three pages I completely forgot about the headline.

EDIT:
So in short the mantra should be: Never give up.

 

Walk the track before you drive it.

 

I wish we could do that in AMS2

 

I'm reading Suellio Almeida's book. Which is very very good.
When talking about cornering he says:
"Entry is cause, exit is consequence."

 

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. - Mario Andretti

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog. -
Alain Prost

Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that. - Jackie Stewart