OT: spin recovery

[jorel140@yahoo.com (Jorel Jackson)]

--- 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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