anybody had a play in the snow?

[bordseye]

in their lotus that is? always used to use the snow as a skid pan training session when younger but not quite had the b*lls to try today in the Lotus.

[cyberface]

Me me me me!

No heroics or danger though, as I have appropriate tyres (I'm going to crow about them this week, the forecast says snow all week here...)

[cheekymonkey]

in my van yeah it's amazing how far you can drift a T4 ha ha

[miro]

I wouldnt go playing in the snow havent got the skill. Balls, or bank balance to go pratting about. Even on a bit of private land theres no telling whats just under the snow

[C43]

If you can find a large car park with nothing to hit I think it is a great way of learning how far you can push a car. When I first past my driving test I had a TR7 and my brother an MGB and we used to go over the local trading estate and much around.

[bordseye]

C43 said:

If you can find a large car park with nothing to hit I think it is a great way of learning how far you can push a car. When I first past my driving test I had a TR7 and my brother an MGB and we used to go over the local trading estate and much around.

Thats exactly what I used to do. No substitute for a bit of skid pan work. Just a bit nervous of the drive there in the Lotus.

[cyberface]

Packed snow isn't an ideal skid pan. Even with proper winter tyres you'll find that you never get out of first gear and without them you can completely lose control below 5 mph. It's not really that relevant to normal road driving because grip vanishes *so* fast and at *such* low speeds that scaling the behaviour up to real-world road speeds is really hard.

Even with the Snowsports I was massively sideways at 7 mph in Sainsbury's car park today. Cold, damp empty car parks are probably better for road-analogue skid pans.

[danwebster]

I went out for a play in mine, sadly most of the snow had melted so I'm hoping for more tonight....LSD means loads of fun

[boobles]

Not in my Elise as sold recently, but great fun in the z3 m roadster......

[Gad-Westy]

boobles said:

Not in my Elise as sold recently, but great fun in the z3 m roadster......

I bet it is! My 328 used to be a hoot in the snow (or a nightmare depending on if you needed to be somewhere on time or not) so I can just imagine what the Z3M must be like.

[boobles]

Oh yes, 321 bhp with no traction control. Happy days.

[Mr_C]

Oh yes

[miss notax]

We went for a little *ahem* drive in the rally car late last night....

(and lots of fun it was too!)

[stinkysteve]

Me too, loads of fun last night, the roads were deserted.

Didn't have the balls to take the lotus out, but the impreza was great!

Nearly got stuck in a 4 foot drift, but then again i was trying to drive through it thinking it was only about 2 foot!

MORE SNOW PLEASE!

[cyberface]

danwebster said:

I went out for a play in mine, sadly most of the snow had melted so I'm hoping for more tonight....LSD means loads of fun

From what I've seen Dan you drive sideways everywhere anyway, heh - you don't seem to need snow... (yeah I've watched your Cadwell re-makes of 'Faszination' )

[danwebster]

Its a terrible addiction I have!