Best example of car control you've ever seen

[Gandahar]

Friday night topic

Here's mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUTWjGlgfbE



Could be anything from a story to a picture to a quote.


And yes, this is a thinly disguised prod to stop me watching Strictly or something for tonight!

[Langers89]

There’s lots of them out there but in recent years this one comes to mind immediately...

https://youtu.be/wQCeQKQ7_vI

[shouldbworking]

Not sure about best control, but undoubtedly the best balls to the wall fearless I've ever seen.

1988, before pikes peak got tarmac and safety barriers



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEuZG37gFdM

[itsnotarace]

About 2 minutes into this one, nudges the wall and still manages to make the gateway then carries on with puncture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxDz0Z066NI

Too many others to mention or go searching for videos now. Walter Rohl in a 911 in the snow. Jean Ragnotti in a Renault 5, Richard Burns in his Subaru, Ari again in Climb Dance...

[SturdyHSV]

Mark Higgins in the Impreza giving the journalist a passenger ride around the Isle of Man course was a pretty impressive save

https://www.crankandpiston.com/mark-higgins-isle-m...

In the embedded Road & Track video, the call for new underpants goes out around 0:50 seconds in.

EDIT:

Yes the Manx clip above also sprung to mind, especially the speed of continuing on with that puncture

[aeropilot]

As I'm old, this is still my favourite and left a lasting impression of me some 40 years ago.....

Proper cars, proper drivers..... (and in a pre-H&S era, with no helmets or racesuits, and joe public were cross-country skiing in between the cars running )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzi1cpL2XDg

[So]

This one is evergreen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liAEeO5LwSg

[Sport220]

This springs to mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbN3drqcBAw

[fiat595]

https://youtu.be/ewxrNSOKFow

[Lotobear]

SturdyHSV said:

Mark Higgins in the Impreza giving the journalist a passenger ride around the Isle of Man course was a pretty impressive save

https://www.crankandpiston.com/mark-higgins-isle-m...

In the embedded Road & Track video, the call for new underpants goes out around 0:50 seconds in.

EDIT:

Yes the Manx clip above also sprung to mind, especially the speed of continuing on with that puncture

This all day long, end of thread.

Link that works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jSYiU-JdRw

[gforceg]

aeropilot said:

As I'm old, this is still my favourite and left a lasting impression of me some 40 years ago.....

Proper cars, proper drivers..... (and in a pre-H&S era, with no helmets or racesuits, and joe public were cross-country skiing in between the cars running )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzi1cpL2XDg

Nice clip, thanks.
I'd be interested to know what the camera (estate) car was, and who the hell was driving it!

[NickGRhodes]

Senna, Donington 1993, wet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GOEorrE4mY

[GT6 Jonsey]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OSMCfPASImQ

[bluezedd]

Bertie Fisher avoiding mowing down a bunch of spectators after a brake caliper broke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-XgXawlAU

To be fair, quite a few of these are the opposite of "car control" from what I can see (mine included).

Edited by bluezedd on Friday 13th December 16:20

[Tickle]

A good driver strapped next to a better driver.

Francois Delecour, Chris Harris and GT3 RS. Never fails to make me smile.

https://youtu.be/LRvcobW-LN4

[Riley Blue]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooBJ2Z2sZvo

From 1:50

[aeropilot]

gforceg said:

aeropilot said:

As I'm old, this is still my favourite and left a lasting impression of me some 40 years ago.....

Proper cars, proper drivers..... (and in a pre-H&S era, with no helmets or racesuits, and joe public were cross-country skiing in between the cars running )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzi1cpL2XDg

Nice clip, thanks.
I'd be interested to know what the camera (estate) car was, and who the hell was driving it!

IIRC, and its a long time ago, that's why they had the Fiesta there, that's what they used to film from, the cameraman was wedged into the back filming from the rear of the open hatch.

[A500leroy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbsqjqxwuJY

Sheddon wet rockingham.

[RobM77]

In terms of saves (as above), for me it's Verstappen at Brazil, but not the one in the wet linked to above (that was really low speed when it came back). This one was mega:

https://youtu.be/9sWky-yBBNc?t=134

I'm guessing he was comfortably over 100mph when it started, and he made full use of the steering and presumably brake and throttle together to shift the brake bias. I can't see it being possible to catch a slide any worse than that. I think this one was in practise or qualifying on the same weekend as the famous wet one on the start/finish straight.

In terms of pure car control, some of the stuff Senna did was astonishing. The trouble is, the optimum slip angle with a slick tyre is so small that you can barely see much of it. In a car with bigger slip angles it was really obvious (for example: https://youtu.be/Lo5wDmJGYGo?t=78).

Edited by RobM77 on Friday 13th December 16:47

[Pica-Pica]

Gandahar said:

Friday night topic
Here's mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUTWjGlgfbE

Could be anything from a story to a picture to a quote.
And yes, this is a thinly disguised prod to stop me watching Strictly or something for tonight!

Oh, no. Gonna turn into a thread about winter tyres...again.