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dknv · 2003-03-13, 09:58 AM

Thanks for posting this link, I bookmarked it for later in-depth reading.

Some of these principles are explained in the Audi car club safety seminars I go to. But not only do I want to understand the principles, I want to try it out & feel the car's handling in these scenarios as well.

So, at Spring Mtn this past weekend, I kept trying to get the car to rotate coming out of a couple of turns -- by first a hard acceleration (weight xfer to the rear), quick lift (unweight the rear, which should help in rotation), then hard acceleration again. Never was successful. I did it at Sears Pt, but could not get it to work at Spring Mtn. However on a different turn, the rear end slipped out after coming over a crest of a hill, when I tapped the brakes to settle the car for the next turn. It was scary the first time, fun after that.

Now to work on refinements on a flat autox surface this summer....

2003-03-13, 09:58 AM	#2
dknv EJ207 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: 39n53, 119w90 Posts: 2,698 Car: RX-8 Class: CS maybe	Thanks for posting this link, I bookmarked it for later in-depth reading. Some of these principles are explained in the Audi car club safety seminars I go to. But not only do I want to understand the principles, I want to try it out & feel the car's handling in these scenarios as well. So, at Spring Mtn this past weekend, I kept trying to get the car to rotate coming out of a couple of turns -- by first a hard acceleration (weight xfer to the rear), quick lift (unweight the rear, which should help in rotation), then hard acceleration again. Never was successful. I did it at Sears Pt, but could not get it to work at Spring Mtn. However on a different turn, the rear end slipped out after coming over a crest of a hill, when I tapped the brakes to settle the car for the next turn. It was scary the first time, fun after that. Now to work on refinements on a flat autox surface this summer....