The Skip Barber Racing Advanced Car Control program makes use of a skid pad: participants drive sightly modified Mazda RX-8s (the cars have extra toe out in the rear), identifying, reacting to, and creating types of slides. On autocross courses, participants learn to use brake and throttle release as techniques to make a car rotate in a corner.
Barber's Advanced Car Control program encourages participants to learn how to drive a car when it is operated
beyond its limits.
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