RE: Slithering round Spa: Time For Tea?

[iloveboost]

This video is very similar in skill and tone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc2CFe62wvQ
I never realised, until I started watching onboard videos like these, how racers constantly adjust the steering. I guess it's because they have to setup the car to be neutral to be fast, and that means constantly steering to control the angle of the car. It's amazing to watch.

Edited by iloveboost on Wednesday 25th February 21:10

[JDS 123]

The 1965 911 is driven by Pascal Pandelaar and on this particular movie he was on a out lap on old hard tyres!!

This car is very competitive and has won many races in Europe. It has competed in quite a few spa six hour races where it has always finished high up the rankings.

[designndrive62]

iloveboost said:

This video is very similar in skill and tone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc2CFe62wvQ
I never realised, until I started watching onboard videos like these, how racers constantly adjust the steering. I guess it's because they have to setup the car to be neutral to be fast, and that means constantly steering to control the angle of the car. It's amazing to watch.

Edited by iloveboost on Wednesday 25th February 21:10

It is impressive to watch, but Really that's only a feature of the historic cars, with their less developed chassis and less grippy tyres. Any more modern car should be driven smoothly. You want as little steering input as possible, turn in once, no sliding, no opposite lock, The fastest laps are nearly always the ones that look less dramatic and are often a bit more boring to watch from a spectating point of view!

[NJH]

Well I don't know Sean Edwards was a pretty epic driver and I always found his in car videos in the modern Porsches on slicks as balls out to watch as those old videos, just not as big on the steering corrections. This one as an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pksa3VCXw

Another vid of a different old 911 round Spa with a different driver but equally big commitment to the corners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqPYGcvkegU

[BritishRacinGrin]

itiejim said:

I trust this was a race not a trackday...

The race cars not a bit of a giveaway?

Armchair experts saying "he's good but he needs to fix his setup"

Edited by BritishRacinGrin on Thursday 26th February 00:05

[Reardy Mister]

This is why the Historics are called the Hysterics

Great bit of footage.

[patmahe]

If this is what badly set up cars are like to drive then give me a badly set up car any day.

Epic driving at an epic circuit no matter what the set up. Makes modern stuff look so boring.

[zeppelin101]

Fix the setup? It's a 4 wheel drift at most points of almost every corner, there was only 2 or 3 times where the car was needing noticeable amounts of opposite lock. I bet it's a dream to drive once you're used to it, not much lock to get the thing turned in then teasing it through the corner on the power.

Looks like great fun!

[TomEP]

I think this can be classified as hussling

Epic fun, does remind you how quick modern cars are though

[NewExigeS]

That thing handles like a dog, all over the place. And the guy is driving like a dick, he would be black flagged on most track days for passing people like that, very dangerous track driving and with no appreciation for the other cars and drivers.

[BritishRacinGrin]

NewExigeS said:

That thing handles like a dog, all over the place. And the guy is driving like a dick, he would be black flagged on most track days for passing people like that, very dangerous track driving and with no appreciation for the other cars and drivers.

Moron or just troll

[NewExigeS]

BritishRacinGrin said:

NewExigeS said:

That thing handles like a dog, all over the place. And the guy is driving like a dick, he would be black flagged on most track days for passing people like that, very dangerous track driving and with no appreciation for the other cars and drivers.

Moron or just troll

Not at all, someone who has done over 100 track days in many different tracks, including c8 in Spa. This guy is passing around corners, running off the track while passing, bullying people out of the way. Idiot.

[HorneyMX5]

NewExigeS said:

BritishRacinGrin said:

NewExigeS said:

That thing handles like a dog, all over the place. And the guy is driving like a dick, he would be black flagged on most track days for passing people like that, very dangerous track driving and with no appreciation for the other cars and drivers.

Moron or just troll

Not at all, someone who has done over 100 track days in many different tracks, including c8 in Spa. This guy is passing around corners, running off the track while passing, bullying people out of the way. Idiot.

Wow.

[BritishRacinGrin]

Appears to be moron!

OK oh trackday king, do continue to grace this thread with your presence and trackday experince

[NJH]

Indeed, some of the comments are hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMpWi1iO-_I

Looks familiar don't it.

[NewExigeS]

BritishRacinGrin said:

Appears to be moron!

OK oh trackday king, do continue to grace this thread with your presence and trackday experince

An opinion that differes from yours must be moronic??? Pot, kettle, black, mirror?!?!

[BritishRacinGrin]

^ You'd have thought that even a moron would've twigged by now, wouldn't you?

[zeppelin101]

I've not heard the penny drop yet...

[BritishRacinGrin]

The question is, will NewExigeS be a thread withdrawl kind of moron or a 'furious back-pedalling whilst trying to maintain face and appear correct' kind of moron.

[dinkel]

2009:



Too quick to catch!