Are GT3s THAT hard to drive?!
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Under another Topic - What's wrong with GT2s - someone recently said 'there are only a handful of drivers in the country that are able to drive a GT3 properly' Gosh. Even amongst my limited circle of friends there are a few bods well able to pedal a GT3 swiftly, including myself. So, there's your 'handful', presummably the rest of you are rubbish! Seriously, it may be in some peoples interests to build up the myths surrounding these cars and yes they do require a certain ability and technique but isn't that going a bit overboard? Or am I (as I've long suspected) truly a driving god!
430 Spider said:
Just automotive snobbery.
Not quite.
I've had mine 2 1/2 years now, and I still can't get near the limits of the car's capabilities. Don't get me wrong. I'm getting nearer every tiem I drive it. "Poof!", I hear you cry, but that in itself is one of the reasons I bought the car. If I wanted to get into a car and go quickly straight out thew showroom I could have bought a TT or an Itchifanni FQ-WRX-GTR. But I got the GT3 as an investment. Not in financial terms, but in time and effort in learning (yes...learning!) how to drive it well, and knowing that for once in these days of nanny-state PC-gone-mad society, that it was ME that was in control of the car and not some bl**dy computer! One day I'll get a half-decent, tidy (and quick) lap of a circuit, or a regularly run route, and the satisfaction (or indeed, the return on my "investment"
will be enormous. My 2 penneth
As a car it is pretty much vice free imho. I guess where the comments stem from is that if you get things wrong, it isn't going to do much to bail you out and it is undoubtedly a powerful car so you can get yourself into trouble if you are a complete idiot or encounter some nasty road condition etc. None of this is particularly common on modern cars.
>> Edited by DanH on Monday 22 May 17:30
>> Edited by DanH on Monday 22 May 17:30
I guess it depends on your definition of properly driven, properly on the road or properly on track ? if your definition of driving properly on the road includes graceful opposoite lock slides at every opportunity and high speed drifts where space allows, then I'd guess that no there aren't that many.
Likewise if you're looking to extract the ultimate lap time around Spa or the 'Ring and get close to someone like Mr Rohrls times, again I'd say the amount of people is most likel pretty limited.
If however by properly you mean people that can pedal a car swiftly (and safety) on road or track, there are most likely plenty out there.
Likewise if you're looking to extract the ultimate lap time around Spa or the 'Ring and get close to someone like Mr Rohrls times, again I'd say the amount of people is most likel pretty limited.
If however by properly you mean people that can pedal a car swiftly (and safety) on road or track, there are most likely plenty out there.
semprini27 said:
cant be to hard, nervy still aint binned his.
And let's face, he was chucking his old car off roundabouts every other day...
you both make very good points.
in actual fact, id say my 3 is as easy to drive as my c4, and only more of a handful in poor weather.
plus, you know, you only have to drive as fast as you want. i dont feel like im competing with anyone so i go as fast as im comfortable going. stuff what anyone else says.
hell, im going for a drive again right now, and its pissing it down and i have almost no talent whatsoever. and im just not worried.
slippydiff said:
I guess it depends on your definition of properly driven, properly on the road or properly on track ? if your definition of driving properly on the road includes graceful opposoite lock slides at every opportunity and high speed drifts where space allows, then I'd guess that no there aren't that many.
Likewise if you're looking to extract the ultimate lap time around Spa or the 'Ring and get close to someone like Mr Rohrls times, again I'd say the amount of people is most likel pretty limited.
If however by properly you mean people that can pedal a car swiftly (and safety) on road or track, there are most likely plenty out there.
Don't know what the original poster's (who I quoted) definition was but mine would be as per your last sentence - with controlled drifts and opp. lock thrown in at track. Would agree there ain't many Herr Rohrls around.
DucatiGary said:
I think the poor handling in the rain has absolutly nothing to do with you running cut slicks too.
no way thats connected to the poor handling in the rain, no way hose A
>> Edited by DucatiGary on Monday 22 May 17:58
if youre going to drink you could at least open me one too.
They're a doddle to drive.
They just require a DIFFERENT driving style IMO.
Oh and they don't do anything for you... No flappy gearboxes, electro clutch/diffs/adjustable slide/power proportioning stuff/dead steering.... This still doesn't make them hard to drive.
Just makes them more involving IMO.
>> Edited by murcielago_boy on Monday 22 May 21:16
They just require a DIFFERENT driving style IMO.
Oh and they don't do anything for you... No flappy gearboxes, electro clutch/diffs/adjustable slide/power proportioning stuff/dead steering.... This still doesn't make them hard to drive.
Just makes them more involving IMO.
>> Edited by murcielago_boy on Monday 22 May 21:16
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