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Having put an M6 into the wall at the end of the Chicane I can understand this situation. As good as you are there will be a moment when that is not good enough. The issue is whether you or someone else precipitates that moment.
For those of doing an ED tourist lap: If you've never been be careful, watch the mirrors, move right, don't let your ego get the better of you. It would be a bad ending to a great experience. Be satisfied with doing some laps. If you do enough go faster by all means, just don't let it be fool's confidence. For those of you doing a training session: Sort of the same thing but don't let yourself chase the car in front of you. Could very well be a better driver and not demonstrating what you can do absent more practice. The ego thing again.
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That slide was saveable. How does a professional driver not know how to quickly opposite lock and steer into a slide to counter it? That guy is an amateur. As the article stated, in way over his head.
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Must've been an American since the majority dont know what the flashing lights mean from behind
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Good Lord. My neck my back my neck and my back. My back my neck my back and my neck. I am going to sue.
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Seriously, how does one become a Ringtaxi driver? I know most of their drivers are pro drivers somehow, but I wonder if they accept anybody that just has a lot of experience, but is not a pro driver. Or how do you become a pro driver? Do you necessarily have to race go-karts competitively or be an instructor or something like that? Also I wonder if you have to be a German citizen? I'm just thinking about a career change one day, and I know I can drive the M5 around the ring professionally. Since I have already done it without crashing I think may score me some clout.
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I took ED of my M6, but drove the Ring in a rental Z4 from RentRaceCar -- http://www.RentRaceCar.de. Take your ego out of it, and let faster cars go by.
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What a dickhead. Seeing GT2 behind and not giving him way. What did he think driving his porky, full of pax bimmer? And there were even more P cars behind!
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It's not that bad, just run it for fun not to impress people, you'll still get rush. An updated GPS helps, both accidents I've seen in front of me seemed like they had no idea of what was turn was next.
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It appears to me that the start of the problem was giving too much throttle at the corner exit (where he was already at the traction limit) creating on oversteer condition - you can hear him get on the throttle more right before he gets to the brick curb apron, and then him let off after he starts to slide. At the very instant you feel the start of the slide you have to very quickly react with opposite lock to counter the slide (ie: quickly turning the steering wheel more to the left in this case so that the angle of your front wheels matches the angle of the slide, it's just something you have to feel) and modulate the throttle gently if needed - that's how he could have saved it, but it doesn't appear that he did this enough - you can see his front wheels are not turned very much and they were very slow even getting to the angle he did. By then he is already headed for the wall instead of down the track on the slip angle he would have been on if he reacted quickly. And secondarily lifting off the throttle too much doesn't help either because the weight shifts to the front and the rear loses even more traction - might have contributed some in this case. This all requires a very quick response (watch how quick Formula 1 drivers do it - so fast you hardly recognize it!) and if not, you're done. Doing what is mentioned above would give you a very high potential of a successful recovery, or at least mitigate enough that you might not hit a wall/rail. Hard to find a reason this technique wouldn't have worked here...
Note that the above procedure is just to neutralize the initial slide so, even if he did do the above, he still would have had to recover the second half of the slide as the car begins moving the opposite direction and straighten the car back out to normal (by steering back to the right and steady throttle). This is a very common beginner mistake I've seen as an instructor many times, especially in higher HP cars with traction control off - be careful out there! |
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