Fun FF driving technique
Chris Warner and I drove at the 2nd SCCA event at Marina yesterday. Here is video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y_mmPu3ZHs
Some of you may be interested so read on.
It's not really obvious from the video, but Chris pushed me to shift into 3rd early for the loop and crossover at the beginning of the course and then shift down to 2nd at the 90 deg turn to set up for the slalom. Well… what that does is put all of the braking into the back wheels and sort of like magic, you can still turn the front wheels and make the turn at a lot faster speed, sort of like throwing a boat anchor out behind the car and having the front end go where you point it, at a much faster speed than if you just apply the brakes and then turned. A little throttle blip and you get rotation, too. Great fun. FFs really are an unfair advantage
We still got beat by the AM cars.
Mark
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