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Originally Posted by MikeK
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Originally Posted by tysonK
When I drove Dean's car at auto-x I don't think his overall better car amplfied my mistakes. If anything it made my decent driving better and started to clear up my bad spots.
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Same here, Deans car made me look like an autocross legend with my own theme music and fanbois. I was so disappointed to take the cape off and drive my own car again the next day  |
This is so funny because while I like my car, I love to get into other cars at stock levels to see what they can do, and I can do in them. Stock cars are much more telling of the driver's skills than prepared ones IMHO.
I'm not sure my car amplifies anything. (Didn't I say this already? Oh well...) You probably have to make 10-20% more total error in my car than a stock WRX suspension, but that margin disappears very quickly if you go 10-15% faster... Drive both cars at the same speed, and mine will mask a lot that would have made a stock car push, etc...
Laerning to drive a car well requires that you listen/feel the feedback the car is giving you. The better your suspension, tires, etc are, the less feedback you get, the slower you learn... Learn to make a stock car go fast, and you will be that much better in a prepared car.
Some of the Quattro Club instructors that fly in from other regions end up in Daewoo and similar automatic, underpowered, all season econo tired compact rentals. Watching them catch S4s and the like in the twisty bits is quite enlightening...