Low performance driver in a high performance car........

 

 

I guess I missed it the first time around but it sure drew you guys right back in....

 

My son once let me drive his Z06, and I was goofing and turned the traction control off, and almost wrecked it. NEVER turn the traction control off!

 

I'm just curious why a few guys are pointing out that the video has been around a long time? So what, I never saw it before and appreciate seeing it. Thanks for posting

 

I call this the "second gear pull".

Allow me explain....when an amateur driver tries extra hard for a quick 1st to 2nd shift, they slam their whole body back into the seat which pulls the left arm and hand toward them and down, forcing the car left. In this case panic overwhelmed the driver and induced what is known as "whiskey throttle".

This video is a perfect example of why I will not line up in the left lane against a manual car.

 

What did you do to control traction in the days when electronic TC was unheard of?

 

STAB and STEER!!!

 

I've spent more than a few days at the track drag racing manual transmission cars. This is pretty classic really. C5 started drifting left into left around curve. Driver reacts and steers right, grabs 2nd hard and car kicks rear out to left and left tire is on painted ridged part of road and right tire has all the traction now jerking car back left. Bozo never rolls out of throttle and just overcorrects steering.

This is the classic DFW cars and coffee crash modus operandus too just look up the videos on youtube. My last high HP rwd car was a '13 Mustang GT with a live axle. Turn off the traction control and even with good tires when you grab second the rear is going to jump out to the left. The way you fix it is keep the front wheels pointed where you want the car to go (so you have to actually turn the wheel a bit left), roll out of the gas just a tiny bit to let the rear end get back behind the front wheels and then slowly reapply full throttle.

**** My career as a race car driver was very short as in a non option. I decided to go to college instead. Dad was a good crew chief and a good driver and I learned a lot way back in the day on a private closed course testing facility. Doing things like this on the street where oil, painted lines (paint is super slick when water is on it; all motorcyclists know this), radiator coolant, uneven surfaces, etc. is just plain asking for trouble.

You will even see this happen at drag races in high HP cars that don't have the chassis set up properly for hard launches. Mustangs are notorious for this behavior due to the live axle.

If the rear steps out to the left, you have to steer left a fraction to get it back.... same if it steps out to the right. You steer into the skid as they taught you in drivers ed oh so long ago.

 

I had a lot of fast cars back then, but none of them came close to the power and launch of that Z06. Even with the traction control on it's a handful.

 

Well you learn something everyday! Going into third should correct this then! lol

 

True, and I think that the short wheelbase of a Corvette doesn't help either. Once the rear starts to wiggle, it can come around very quickly.

Having said that, I've live the majority of my life in the "snow belt", and one thing that a successful car enthusiast learns, driving on snow covered roads, is car control. With all of today's "nanny controls", it's becoming a lost art....

 

I have a C3 and C6 and drive neither that way.

 

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These cars most gens handle so well when they go they snap back quicker than one can correct theres no real warning. No matter how good you are they can still surprise you. Keep it on the track and stay alive

 

According to National Lampoon, sneezing and hummers are the two leading causes of accidents.

 

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