From my experience with ZR1s at car shows this is a non-issue. Only the jean-shortiest, cell-phone-belt-clippiest owners of the corvette class will own them, and they will certainly never drive them hard.
Yep, all of his steering inputs were either the car on its own or him being behind. He overcorrected from the get and then just kept making it worse until the ESP took care of business.
Yes, looking at the street and “crosswalks” on google maps shows crosswalks designed to put lives at risk. No signage to vehicle drivers, no marking of crosswalks, no crosswalk signals, crosswalks designed to cross diagonally through turn-cuts through the median. I just don’t get it, it’s like it was done on purpose…
I’m sorry, this “crosswalk” seems designed to kill people (and this is not the first time it has). Setting up a crosswalk diagonally across a turning point through a median without crosswalk signals or signage for vehicles that there’s a crosswalk? Ignoring the criminal driving behavior on display in this instance, is…
It works, and you need it more in 911s than other cars to keep the front end planted. In the older cars it’s just a matter of keeping your steering inputs very small while braking and letting the engine do the rest of the steering.
The cloth fabric center I can get behind (or get my behind in) for staying put in the seat, but why go and make it look all corduroy-ey?
Truly the weirdest part of this article—they almost look like corduroy.
Call it a marketing contract, one and done. I mean they signed contracts, that matters.
I read this and all I can think of is “get bent, buddy!” because these calculations get a lot more nerve-wracking when it’s an ‘80s 911. Oh no your $5 off the shelf part is bad oh boo-hoo I have to wait three weeks for mine and $5 for yours is $500 for mine.
I mean it doesn’t look bad, but that’s about it?
I’ve never seen a thing designed to lose more money, faster.
That thing needs to dump the windshield and go with a deflector. That windshield is awful.
She grew up on drum brakes I bet. My dad did and said something similar, that you needed to be on and off with them to give them a chance to cool off.
He was using the skinnies.
It’s cool and fast, but it doesn’t sound awesome. Awesome is that burbling off-throttle breath between gears.
The sound of upshifts on modern turbocharged engines with DCTs (or similar) is just atrocious. woooOOOSH *fart* wooooOOOSHH *fart*.
How did everyone convince themselves to wear such ill-fitting suits back then?
I think it’s because they’re trying to maintain speed and shorten the corner. Late apexes seem so minimal in practical use, and more about scrubbing speed at turn-in instead of corner exit speed.
Know what you hardly ever see in actual racing? A legit late apex turn. It may be just that little scootch late but for the most part racers are coming in hard and clipping apexes. Late apexing just seems to be a thing for vehicles that aren’t stable turning under braking.