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RGB has TRACK driving right. It applies at an autocross as well as road racing. For the very tightest turns the rear wheels are transmitting even more power and need the grip from reduced cornering load provided by a small rear sway bar.
DO NOT try this on the street. This is race track driving technique. If you've got the car this close to the edge, you're going WAY too fast for the street. I'm not winking, I'm really serious about that. Driving this fast on the street is ridiculously dangerous to yourself and more importantly, to others.
"Braking hard weight shifts to front tires. Starting the turn front tires grip. Next the care "rotates" (the mildest form of "oversteer" imaginable). Start to smoothly apply the throttle, the car stops rotating (because weight has transfered to the rear tires and now they are gripping better than the front). Full throttle. Apex. Minimal "understeer" off the corner that can be corrected with just a little more steering input and without having to back off the throttle. "
This is right. With a V6 power/weight ratio, you should be at full throttle at or before the apex. If you can't do that because the rear will come around, your rear bar is too big. A very minor quibble is that I think you (usually) need to slightly overrotate the car (with the steering wheel) before the apex and be unwinding the steering as you exit the corner toward the outside edge of the track, ie "late apex".
[ January 10, 2005, 01:58 PM: Message edited by: V6Bob ]
DO NOT try this on the street. This is race track driving technique. If you've got the car this close to the edge, you're going WAY too fast for the street. I'm not winking, I'm really serious about that. Driving this fast on the street is ridiculously dangerous to yourself and more importantly, to others.
"Braking hard weight shifts to front tires. Starting the turn front tires grip. Next the care "rotates" (the mildest form of "oversteer" imaginable). Start to smoothly apply the throttle, the car stops rotating (because weight has transfered to the rear tires and now they are gripping better than the front). Full throttle. Apex. Minimal "understeer" off the corner that can be corrected with just a little more steering input and without having to back off the throttle. "
This is right. With a V6 power/weight ratio, you should be at full throttle at or before the apex. If you can't do that because the rear will come around, your rear bar is too big. A very minor quibble is that I think you (usually) need to slightly overrotate the car (with the steering wheel) before the apex and be unwinding the steering as you exit the corner toward the outside edge of the track, ie "late apex".
[ January 10, 2005, 01:58 PM: Message edited by: V6Bob ]
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