Takes the fun out of it.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 05/16/2016 at 14:14 • Filed to: None

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Blondude > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2016 at 14:31

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Noooo! Not the Amazon!

McMike > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2016 at 14:31

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TWO FEET IN OMG YOU PEOPLE TWO FEET IN!

Gone > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2016 at 14:34

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Yes, yes it does. That’s why you play with toys instead of drivers. I bent my Camaro at an auto-x (so stupid). Good thing I didn’t “need” it.

FYI: Sometimes you should go two feet in and not try to double down with the throttle. Decreasing finish slaloms are the bane of loose setups w/RWD. Also as an addendum, tankslappers are bad near curbs.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Gone 05/16/2016 at 14:42

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I can’t understand much of that, but it seems to me that standing on the brakes doesn’t always yield the best outcome.

RallyWrench > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2016 at 14:43

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There are a some of good recoveries in there, the black 964 in particular. Lots of bad driving though.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RallyWrench 05/16/2016 at 14:58

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Lots of people driving badly and trashing their cars. And there’s a Ford Zephyr (or something along those lines) that exhibits some epic understeer.

RallyWrench > Blondude 05/16/2016 at 15:01

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That was painful to watch.

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2016 at 16:14

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If you are at the track, and going off, the correct answer is two feet in straighten the wheel. Trying to be a hero and save it results in an epic wreck 90+% of the time. If you just go two feet in and keep it straight, you will almost always(barring mechanical failure and tracks with inadequate runoff) keep the car out of the wall.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP 05/16/2016 at 16:20

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What does “two feet in” mean?

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2016 at 16:31

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One foot pushing the clutch to the floor, the other pushing the brakes to the floor. The instructors tend to assume everyone drives a stick at the track.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP 05/16/2016 at 17:04

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You want to disengage power to the wheels if you enter a spin? Appropriate throttle input, I’d have thought, matching drive wheel speed to conditions, perhaps...

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2016 at 17:18

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Your only goal at that point is to scrub speed. Attempting to recover will likely end with you driving into a wall. I’ve only seen one person at a track day fail to follow the directions of two feet in and straighten the wheel. He tried to play hero and save the car as it was understeering off the outside of turn 1, he cranked the wheel over and as soon as his car scrubbed off enough speed for the front tires to bite he shot back across the track and spun drivers door first into the inside wall. He broke pretty much every part of his suspension on the drivers side along with both windows. Had he just straightened out the wheel he would have had about 150 ft to slow the car and bring it under control.

Conversely, I watched the classroom instructor drive through an oil patch from the blown engine of the car in front of her on the same turn as the other guy and go two feet in, she avoided the wall and got the car under control safely.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP 05/16/2016 at 17:52

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And if the car has an automatic transmission? Pop it out of gear?

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2016 at 18:13

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well, no. If you have an automatic, it effectively disengages the clutch as soon as you touch the brakes.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > e36Jeff now drives a ZHP 05/17/2016 at 14:20

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Two feet in would have been just the right ingredient here. That Mustang is destroyed.

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/17/2016 at 15:33

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Well, two feet in and possibly a functional brain. Doing something like that on a public street, especially a residential street with cars parked on the side of the road requires a special brand of stupid.