Best example of car control you've ever seen

[bluezedd]

Pica-Pica said:

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

He must have linglongs on with all that sliding about!

[Dapster]

WRC for me too but special mention fro Mark Blundell in the 1,100 bhp Mazda qualifying at La Sarthe.

"Every input was pure reflex -- things were coming at me everywhere I looked. For about 50 percent of the lap I felt like I was on the verge of a massive accident."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ECE3oT-Z8&t=...

Edited by Dapster on Friday 13th December 16:57

[Gary C]

SturdyHSV said:

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

Either

Mark Higgins with me in the passenger seat thrashing a Mk2 escort around his dads Forest

Or

a brand new black 1988 911 turbo near the battery in Morecambe. Might have been unintentional, but the driver threw the car into a slide in the wet and slotted into stanley road in a perfect drift.

Always stuck in my mind as either amazing car control, or a serious brown trouser moment.

[Hoofy]

NickGRhodes said:

Senna, Donington 1993, wet

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

It's as if the other cars had one foot on the brake. How did he do it? Better tyres? More power? TC? Or just bigger balls?

[gforceg]

aeropilot said:

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.

Thanks, that makes sense!

[MKnight702]

Amateurs.

Kenny making Adrian Newey nervous

[GOATever]

Me, on the A1, a while back, in the dark, in the wet. Hit a flood at *ahem* mph. Went from lane 3 ( I was overtaking ) through lane 2 pretty much perpendicular to the direction of travel. Lifted off, went ‘soft hands’ made it into lane 1, a very small squirt of the throttle straightened her up, I had to get off at the next services to change my underwear. Life lesson learned.

[drewklonky]

https://youtu.be/H-c7NlO2ARw

https://youtu.be/NFPgG45lEDE

Daigo Saito

[Warby80]

I quite enjoyed Yannick Dalmas having a play in the rain with the R8 safety car at lemans when the race was stopped in a proper downpour.

https://youtu.be/SqB6qRXmCNo

[Gad-Westy]

Riley Blue said:

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

From 1:50

Nice! Speaking of Tiff....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3QuH7z1Z1o

[Gad-Westy]

I guess this isn't quite in keeping as it starts with a bit of losing control but absolutely love the speed of recovery on this. Totally different level to mere mortals!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUkSlvlp78

[grumpy52]

Tony Pond on the Manx in a Chevette. Set a time that wasn't beaten on a stage for many years .
His navigator finished the stage with very wide staring eyes , Pondy was laughing.

[MellowshipSlinky]

Many years ago pre mobile phones of any kind, I moved over for a trafpol T5 down the Nottingham ring road.
I watched him on blues and twos as he deftly and skilfully drifted around the Nottingham Knight island and disappeared into the night.
Was great to watch.

[dirky dirk]

Me and j4cko from here,
Driving back from the pub one Friday (under the limit)
I was in front and he was behind me

We both turned right far too quickly without slowing Down at a junction Into a side road,
My Vauxhall viva being the pinnacle of handling was fine
But his mk1 capri turned sharply right, then over steered badly near to the kerb,
He caught it, then it went the other side, and it fish tailed quite a bit till it ran out of enthusiasm and it was corrected.
All unfolding in my mirror.

Quality

[vaud]

MKnight702 said:

Amateurs.

Kenny making Adrian Newey nervous

Holy moly. That is supreme. The sheer amount of steering input...

[Gad-Westy]

vaud said:

MKnight702 said:

Amateurs.

Kenny making Adrian Newey nervous

Holy moly. That is supreme. The sheer amount of steering input...

That’s quite committed!

[vaud]

"Oh Dear God" Ari Vatanen and Terry Harryman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19F2YPVey0

[mrtwisty]

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.

That link didn't work for me, so here's the YT https://youtu.be/9jSYiU-JdRw

This is the greatest for me. The amount and speed of the steering input, at 150mph, on grippy tarmac, with massively grippy tyres, inches away from kerbs and road furniture. The precision necessary. Stunning.

I've watched it so many times and can never quite believe it somehow.

I do wonder how many times out of a hundred he would save it though. He does say himself that he didn't know how he managed it.

[mrtwisty]

GT6 Jonsey said:

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

Wow.

Just imagine that you've taken your GPZ900R to the 'ring in 1987. You're blatting along at a good old pace, thinking 'this is real speed!'. Then this madman in a bright yellow 911 just flies past you, tyres screaming, fishtailing wildly off into the distance.

[Cabsi]

Colin McRae. 100% commitment always. Too many videos to choose from, but this one will do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBGzCdG3fhQ