Ease off to Overtake!
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When overtaking, You should ease off as you pass, just enough to hold your speed. You don't want to be accelerating when you turn your wheel to pull in again because if you do you will under-steer more and it will take you longer to get in. I believe in easing off to pull
back into line even when there is something coming the other way
in the middle. "it's not a case of decelerating. You just hold the speed you're making. This may cost you a yard or so in actual forward movement but it gets you into a nearside lane faster and that more than makes up for it.
Taken from the Tom Wisdom book High Performance Driving.
back into line even when there is something coming the other way
in the middle. "it's not a case of decelerating. You just hold the speed you're making. This may cost you a yard or so in actual forward movement but it gets you into a nearside lane faster and that more than makes up for it.
Taken from the Tom Wisdom book High Performance Driving.
The book was published in 1966, & Tom Wisdom, was one of this country's better-known names in motor racing, rallying and journalism.
He had competed with success in such races as the Portuguese Grand Prix, Monaco Grand Prix, Le Mans 24-hour Race, and won the Grand Turismo
Class three times in the Mille Miglia.
He had competed in the Monte Carlo Rally 23 consecutive times and has broken World Records with Capt. George Eyston and the late John Cobb.
To be fair I'm really enjoying reading it, it shows how the high performance course came into affect. HPC
He had competed with success in such races as the Portuguese Grand Prix, Monaco Grand Prix, Le Mans 24-hour Race, and won the Grand Turismo
Class three times in the Mille Miglia.
He had competed in the Monte Carlo Rally 23 consecutive times and has broken World Records with Capt. George Eyston and the late John Cobb.
To be fair I'm really enjoying reading it, it shows how the high performance course came into affect. HPC
MagicalTrevor said:
I'd say that's well out of date then. Probably catering for the lowest common denominator whereas nowadays, even the cheapest car has bags of grip with modern tyres.
The Candidates trained in the Aston Martin DB4, before the Maximum speed was introduced, at speeds of over 140mph on the road, with no seat belts required, although at that time DB4 had them installed, lol. Crazy carinaman said:
I'm not sure it applies today. I can't say I've ever seen it as a problem. My overtaking tends to allow me diagonal, vector like path to regain the correct side of the road.
After seeing this thread lastnight I chanced upon this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT7Qsg2tLDc
If not about understeer while overtaking it's a reminder about progressive, smooth throttle application and the reliance on grip and traction.
Wow expensive. After seeing this thread lastnight I chanced upon this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT7Qsg2tLDc
If not about understeer while overtaking it's a reminder about progressive, smooth throttle application and the reliance on grip and traction.
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