Please teach me how to drive my new 911
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Spinning and loss of control is really about the tires losing adhesion with the pavement and the driver (or PSM) being unable to adequately compensate quickly enough. At speed, on the track, the car should be in a controlled slide in most corners conditions permitting. The deflection between the tire's intended path and the car's actual path is called the slip angle and there is an optimal angle to achieve optimal speed. Also, in many tight corners the quickest way through them is to turn in hard enough and apply enough throttle to induce some oversteer to rotate (slide) the back end around towards the new intended direction. If you can unwind the steering wheel smoothly enough and keep the car well balanced it works out fine. If you don't, a spin or a tank slapper may result. Ross Bentley takes 23 pages to explain these dynamics in his book Speed Secrets so I'll leave it at that. There's a fine line between being reckless and being accomplished. 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_angle
Here is a video of a Mini Cooper following me, the gray 911, at a DE event (my first DE). When I exit a turn, I am unwhining the wheel a tiny little bit while ease on the throttle. It is scary at first. Your car is sliding out, and you have slight understeer. The natural reaction is to lift off the throttle, but you're suppose to ease-in the throttle, and eventually your sideways momentum ends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A21SmsvQyc
This is after a day and a half of instruction. My first few sessions were..... very ugly. haha
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Your car always slides a little in a turn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_angle
Here is a video of a Mini Cooper following me, the gray 911, at a DE event (my first DE). ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_angle
Here is a video of a Mini Cooper following me, the gray 911, at a DE event (my first DE). ...
Just a question: Why didn't you take the banked turn? Is it restricted?
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Read it with an open mind. Some criticize it as being a storyteller-type-book. I disagree. Elford relates his racing experience and puts things in perspective. The technique he teaches is simple, to the point, and it works.
Many other 'racing' books have a lot of 'engineering' diagrams and stuff but miss on the core of the matter. Elford works for me.
Many other 'racing' books have a lot of 'engineering' diagrams and stuff but miss on the core of the matter. Elford works for me.
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Read it with an open mind. Some criticize it as being a storyteller-type-book. I disagree. Elford relates his racing experience and puts things in perspective. The technique he teaches is simple, to the point, and it works.
Many other 'racing' books have a lot of 'engineering' diagrams and stuff but miss on the core of the matter. Elford works for me.
Many other 'racing' books have a lot of 'engineering' diagrams and stuff but miss on the core of the matter. Elford works for me.
Good to know i guess i will find out
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Yeah, the banked turn is the oval, which is closed off.
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The Speed Series books 1 and 2 are much more informative than the Elford book.
In suggest you read them all.
Smooth is fast no doubt. But there's allot in the Speed Series books about being smooth and keeping the car balanced. They are not all about drifting.
In suggest you read them all.
Smooth is fast no doubt. But there's allot in the Speed Series books about being smooth and keeping the car balanced. They are not all about drifting.
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ROTFLMAO, That's harsh (but kinda true)!! 
Some of his stories are sort of interesting though.........
Some of his stories are sort of interesting though.........
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He's about balance and it has to do with how you work the pedals as well as how you turn the wheel.
Its not a very technical read at all.
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It's not a bad book but there are better books for learning about driving. Start there, absorb, apply and then move to another.