RS4 Avant and some tyres: Ouch!

Dangerous Dave said:
A lot of people don't realise that ESP will always try to point the car in the direction the steering wheel is pointing, if you manually try to correct a slide ESP can then direct you straight towards what you are trying to avoid. It does look like what happened to this guy.
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Aye, had it a few times in mine (minus the 4wd cutting in) instinct tells you to correct but if you do it makes things worse, i had a play on the gravel at donnington with varied results :p
 
I spun my RS4 with ease at the Oulton drift day....though I am begining to think I am a jinx as when I got into Elliot's CSL he kept spinning too, and he's really good at skidding :D As I have said when you loose it at proper speed you need skill, luck or both as electrics are going to fold their arms and say "over to you". ;)
 
Its poop, i find it much harder to catch than a RWD car, you seem to have a smaller window to sort things out made worse by you thinking the electronics are going to do something.
 
Should buff right out.
I always have ESP on in my car, but I've never driven it hard enough to find out what happens when it kicks in.
 
Inexperienced driver unfamiliar with how the car reacts on the limit. In his panic, he's over-corrected way too much rather than let the car drift.

He's way was probably also unsettled by trying to keep the Porsche behind him and pushed a bit too much. That Porsche driver behind him must have been laughing his head off :D
 
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DreXeL said:
Looking at the second video his line around camp is completely wrong. It's a double apex corner, and you have to ignore the first apex and aim for the second. He's hitting the first apex then hugging the corner.
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I almost destroyed my old Impreza STI5 Type R on that very corner because of not knowing this. I lost it bigtime but managed to get it back by sheer luck, then came in the following lap feeling quite sick, though I suspect not as sick as the driver of that Audi.
 
MarkDavis said:
Inexperienced driver unfamiliar with how the car reacts on the limit. In his panic, he's over-corrected way too much rather than let the car drift.

He's way was probably also unsettled by trying to keep the Porsche behind him and pushed a bit too much. That Porsche driver behind him must have been laughing his head off :D
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Looks like a Audi TT to me
 
Having driven Combe once and been passenger a few times it's a track where its very easy for it to go wrong. Definitely trying to do something without practise somewhere safe first.....
 
what a wally, it does look like over correction. ESP would do that to the car. He should have kept his foot down and gone into the infield instead.
 
Jono said:
Should buff right out.
I always have ESP on in my car, but I've never driven it hard enough to find out what happens when it kicks in.
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It's scary.

I push my car very hard even in the wet on roundabouts etc and the ONLY time DSC has ever felt the need to kick in was with a spirited take off from the lights in the wet. Infact I found my FWD Focus getting more out of shape than my 3 Series in similar circumstances. :confused:

Eagle F1's seem to be doing a sterling job here so far anyway.
 
NathanE said:
That corner claims so many cars. The marshalls must have bets going on for each event :p
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I enjoyed CC but that corner is a sod, lots of cars went off on it which put added a fair chunk of mud a debirs. One of the bookatrack caterams went straight on into the barrier at 70. I made 3-4 saves that would otherwise have seen me do the same. I like the track but the lack of run off means, much like the ring, any mistakes are likely to be costly!

It certainly made me think twice about more driver training again!
 
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