:shout: PROPER SEATING

[lakebum]

Does anyone has any videos or pics or infos about proper seating when driving?

[Zod]

There's a thread on this subject in the Advanced Driving forum. A few essentials:

Adjust the seat so that with shoulders pressed against the seat and arms outstretched your wrists rest on top of the wheel. Keep the seat as low as possible while retaining good all round visibility. You should never be close to extending fully either leg when pushing a pedal to its furthest position.

[Paul Drawmer]

Zod said:

good stuff.

For some people this will seem closer to the wheel than they think is right. However, this may be due to acceptance of poor seating position in the past. If you think you are too close when you adust the seat as described by Zod, make sure that the backrest is not reclined too far.

The wheel arm position described; is so that if you hold the wheel at 1/4 to 3 or at 10 to 2, when you apply an armful of lock, your shoulders should still be supported by the seat. If they are not, then you tend to partly release the wheel with the lower hand in order to allow the upper part of the body to rotate and keep hold of the wheel with the other hand.

Try it now. Extend you arms as if holding the steering wheel. Apply an armful of lock. Now note the position of your shoulders as you move the imaginary wheel in and out.

If you have too much of a reclined position, your legs will feel cramped, when your arms are right.

If you look at in car shots of race drivers, you will see that many of them are quite close to the wheel, and sitting rather upright, compared to some 'slouchers'.

[lakebum]

Thank you Zod and Paul Braumer this is very good stuff.I thought so too i m driving this way but i wanted to check because i m driving like that in my street car too and all my folks find it very weird.They preffer a more reclined driving posture with all the negatives and is very hard to conviced people those days :-).As i realized many drivers who know about "wrists on top of the steering wheel" for correct seating position, the actuallyl doing it without pressing their backs against the seatback but they still believe they heve a result even though they are pretty far from optional position .There is a nice video of kimi driving his mercedes in the mountains http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/

>> Edited by lakebum on Thursday 27th April 14:44

[Zod]

I should have added tht your shoulders should never leave the seat back, even at full lock. You need to be pushed against the back to exert full leverage.