5 Tips: How to recover from a bad race

Published on August 6th, 2025

Even the best can’t win all the time. Terry Hutchinson talks to Andy Rice about how to turn a bad race into an opportunity.


You learn more from your mistakes than from your successes. But when you’ve had a bad result, how do you get past the negative emotion and start turning that into a positive to take forward into your next race?

Terry Hutchinson has been grappling with this challenge for more than four decades. He says he’s still learning. Even for someone of Terry’s deep experience at the top of the sport, every day brings up new scenarios and new lessons, sometimes painful but always useful if processed in the right way.

But how to learn those lessons and improve teamwork without resorting to finger pointing and ending up in the blame game? It’s a tough job but it’s vital to the overall mission, not to mention making sure everybody is enjoying the process. – Full report

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