Another Cars and Coffee crash - whats going wrong?
Discussion
As above, on this mornings Jalopnik, there's another video of a Viper exiting a venue, accelerating hard and then promptly stuffing it sideways into the kerb; I've seen similar "tank slapping" results on other videos as well.
My question is - what's the driver doing wrong, what should he have done to maintain control? and I mean from a technical point of view.
Thought I'd post in this section to the racing fraternity
Link: https://jalopnik.com/local-dodge-viper-leaving-car...
My question is - what's the driver doing wrong, what should he have done to maintain control? and I mean from a technical point of view.
Thought I'd post in this section to the racing fraternity
Link: https://jalopnik.com/local-dodge-viper-leaving-car...
R8Steve said:
What they are doing requires commitment, you either need to keep on the throttle or let off early enough to avoid it in the first place.
It's usually when they put it into second, wheels still spinning and the extra dollop of torque along with some steering angle creates a larger slide than they expected. They let off, the car grips and spears off in the other direction into whatever kerb/wall/car/pedestrian happens to be there.
Thanks Hustle and R8, your answers are in line with what I thought but wanted an answer from the racing fraternity. i.e commit and hold it, but I think as you said R8 it's when the gear change comes and it grips throwing it in the opposite direction that mayhem ensues, then the disaster severity depends upon how fast they can recover it It's usually when they put it into second, wheels still spinning and the extra dollop of torque along with some steering angle creates a larger slide than they expected. They let off, the car grips and spears off in the other direction into whatever kerb/wall/car/pedestrian happens to be there.
There's another clip showing two Corvettes at the lights, car behind is following. Lights go green, they go for it and the ensuing snaking is risible - again I couldn't fathom how badly it went wrong.
So if I got this right...the correct way is...
1. Don't accelerate until everything's pointing in the right direction
2. If it goes- steer into it sharpish and hold it
3. Don't lift off, rather ease off
4. Don't change gear until everything's pointing in the right direction
5. All of the above in nano seconds
6. Visit M&S/Next/Boss WHY
I'm not going to go out and try the above
but I do like to push the XJR sometimes but then again it's got traction control; it was the technicalities of yaw, slip and traction that I was interested in.Thnx again guys.
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