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I posted this in the civic section and am posting here too because I figure most of you ITR guys don't check that forum...


Driving skills are a


*EDIT* LINK died sorry... so I updated it with a new one...

sorry link died again.. too many hits and the admins are on top of it... if anyone has hosting I can get them the video...

I'm searching for a place to host it...




[Modified by Paul Walker, 1:07 PM 6/7/2002]

 

Links skills are a

*EDIT* New link is a


[Modified by sackdz, 3:52 PM 6/7/2002]

 

wtf happened?

 

what a dumbass

 

Don't know, I grabbed that video off the net.. Not my buddy

 

argh, it's downloading at 2.73kb/s

 

Hold on getting a new link....

 

They were talkin about this a couple days ago in the autocross forum... pretty damned funny... Bet that truck **** his pants... It took me like 8 mins to download on my T1 connection...

 

sorry link died again.. too many hits and the admins are on top of it... if anyone has hosting I can get them the video...

I'm searching for a place to host it...

 

Just got it dled... That guy is a dumbass. LOL

 

Does we.todd.did.racing host videos?

 

LOL, I probably couldn't that even if I wanted.

 

This is what happens when you lower your car too much and don't have camber correction

What made the guy swerve in the first place is beyond me. Maybe he did it to joke around...now look who's the joke, he's on the freakin internet <owned!!!>.

 

Lucky he didn't go on the lid!

Cause: Car too low, crappy tires, lack of comon sense.

 

I think he probably wasn't paying attention and started to drift to the right.

 

yea looks liek he wasn;t paying attention.. but when he tried to correct himself he over corrected it ( 3 times to be exact.. each time beign worse and worse lol...looks liek he dind;t brake at the right time either.. shame.. that civic.. idnd;t look that bad lol.

 

Yep, then over corrected, and came off the gas at the same time, unloaded the back end (crappy shocks), started slappin the tank, overcorrected again, hit the brakes, which made the situation worse, and then lost it completely...

I never claim to be a good driver, but in a situation like this, what is the best option for saving it? (becides not getting into the situation)...

 

ill host it on my server.

 

I would say off gas, no brakes, steer the car where you want it to go.

Or

Buy shocks and camber kit when you buy lowering springs and don't go cheap on the tires when you get those bling blings.

 

Wrong, that is why he crashed. Stay on the gas! Gas is your friend...unless your driving and electric car, then current is your friend.

This is correct though.

 

So, grabbin a quick gear, and accelerating out would cure that situation? Along with gentile steering corrections?

 

Best thing would be to gas so you can regain traction.

 

I don't think you need gas in this situation (at least at the beginning when he first swerved into the other lane). He lost controlled when he counter steered sharply while on on the brakes.

 

The Physics of Racing page could explain all this very well but it is down. So I will give you the short version.

It all comes down to weight transfer and tire patch. At any given time your car only has a finite amount of tire on the road. When weight is transfered fwd the rear tire patch become smaller the front becomes larger. This can cause the back end to swing around, as shown in the video. The correction is to get traction to the back wheels, by increasing the tire patch. Stepping on the gas transfers weight to the rear tires, increaseing the tire patch.

I did find http://www.f1technical.net/env/driver.shtml had a brief summary. Note: that "...power down to effectively accelerate..." means put the gas pedal down.

Also Dev Clough briefly speaks about weight transfer here. http://www.nasaproracing.com/hpde/weighttransfer.html

 

Damn, now I want to see that video!!

Someone host it for Paul Walker please.