OT: spin recovery

[rocco_crossing@hotmail.com (Rhett Farnum)]

On ice any sort of wheel torque change will throw you around. I personally 
know this I whipped my dad's 1/2 ton chevy into the ditch when I shifted 
once. (Lucky for the snowdrift or I would have been on my top.) ON Ice there 
isnt much you can do.

Peace Out,

Rhett
Rocco_crossing
'83 Rocco (autocross ready, body work needed)
'92 Olds Cutlass Ciera (DD)



>From: Jorel Jackson <jorel140@yahoo.com>
>To: volkswagen scirocco <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: OT: spin recovery
>Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:08:26 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>--- Ryan H <rhock99@epix.net> wrote:
> > Loss of control could have many meanings... was it
> > ice in a corner?  Did she hit ice then fishtail for
> > a while first?  Each situation is different, but in
> > countersteering an OVERsteer situation (fishtail) in
> > a FWD car like a Neon, no brakes should be applied -
> > it just makes it harder for the car to regain
> > balance (because it shifts weight to the already
> > overloaded front end).
> >
> > Truth be told, there was probably nothing she could
> > do - ice is much worse than snow for any kind of
> > recovery.
> >
>
>
>It was ice. She came out of a corner all right, then
>the car began to fishtail on straight stretch of road.
>The car went into oversteer. She overcorrected for the
>oversteer and got into a losing fishtail battle. The
>reason I ask, is that I don't have much experience
>with ABS, since I've been driving Sciroccos
>exclusively up until recently. Never have put a
>Scirocco in a ditch...yet.
>
>
>=====
>Jorel Jackson
>web site:  http://www.home.earthlink.net/~jomoj/
>1987 16V Scirocco
>2000 Neon ES
>Ranger XLT
>
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