Snap oversteer
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Snap oversteer
Found this vid on youtube, good example of snap oversteer. Looks almost impossible to recover from at these speeds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEkihkT1B3Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEkihkT1B3Y
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I had something similar happen to me on the freeway. Guy in the middle lane decided to take a right hand exit as I was aproaching on the right. He was doing ~70... I was around 90 and inexperienced with the ways of high speed handling! I tried to make the exit but under heavy braking you can guess what happened.
The good news is that I managed to reverse the spin and head away from the gaurdrail. I estimate I was down to 70 when I went sideways off-roading in the exit's median. Broke the right-rear bead loose, threw the Camber full negative (top of tire out,) and packed the wheel half full of mud. Scraped the front wheel lip but good and wedged grass into the bead but didn't break it. The car made a full 270 before coming to a stop in the grass. : ] Had to replace that RR knuckle as it got bent...
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The good news is that I managed to reverse the spin and head away from the gaurdrail. I estimate I was down to 70 when I went sideways off-roading in the exit's median. Broke the right-rear bead loose, threw the Camber full negative (top of tire out,) and packed the wheel half full of mud. Scraped the front wheel lip but good and wedged grass into the bead but didn't break it. The car made a full 270 before coming to a stop in the grass. : ] Had to replace that RR knuckle as it got bent...
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right. if he was by himself, yes, gassing it and trying to recover may have worked, but, being in traffic - he did the right thing by getting the vehicle still as quickly as possible.The Dark Side of Will wrote:That just makes the car continue to spin in a straight line rather than randomly veering across the track as tires gain traction unpredictably.p8ntman442 wrote:Huh, and I thought locking all 4 tires when entering the spin would have stopped it.......
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The Fiero doesn't have the horsepower to recover from that via drift.Pyrthian wrote:right. if he was by himself, yes, gassing it and trying to recover may have worked, but, being in traffic - he did the right thing by getting the vehicle still as quickly as possible.The Dark Side of Will wrote:That just makes the car continue to spin in a straight line rather than randomly veering across the track as tires gain traction unpredictably.p8ntman442 wrote:Huh, and I thought locking all 4 tires when entering the spin would have stopped it.......
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No, I was asking in reference to my story up above. First skid with brakes on started to send me into the guardrail so I let off the brakes and the car immediately reversed it's spin but thankfully put my in the median instead. Probably saved the car...The Dark Side of Will wrote:Was that you in the vid?
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By being on the brakes you unload the rear contact patches and reduce rear cornering grip. The back end starts to come around and develops a very large slip angle. When you let off the brakes, the weight transfers back onto the rear tires, they bite and the large slip angle sends the tires back the way they came. However, because the car was so far sideways and the rear tires were too narrow, it develops enough momentum to swing through and oversteer the other way like a pendulum. Wider rear tires putting the traction center at or behind the CG would reduce this effect dramatically. This is also the rear why a trailer with insufficient tongue weight sways back and forth.