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      12-15-2015, 08:00 PM   #138
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Originally Posted by kaiv
Kong, I've noticed you seem interested in gaining some car control (also on m3f).

Here's my advice and what I tell people who want to learn:

Start with one or two skid pad events. Bring an extra pair or two of tires.

Start with doing a donut. Left handed turn donut. Then right hand turn donut (or vice versa, just practice both sides). You'll probably want to use 2nd gear to start with. Get the feel of where the car starts sliding and what inputs in takes to keep it there. Then you can increase the radius of the turn to make as wide a circle you can given the space you have. Experiment that way.

Then once you a starting to get a decent feel of sliding the car on either side, you can start trying transitions. Slide the car one side and try to transfer the slide to the other side. Eg. make an imaginary figure 8.

It's all about weight transfer and feeling the car.

Spending an entire day doing that I guarantee you you will start getting the hang of it.

Not sure I would recommend trying your first slides on an actual track through an actual turn (higher speed, other cars around, less asphalt run off).
That's what I did lol.

During a lemons test day so it was slow
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