350ZNV posted this several days ago:

"DO NOT TOUCH THE BRAKES. Actually don't touch anything. Its a hard concept to learn, but if you let go of the steering wheel and keep your foot off of the pedals, your car will naturally correct itself. This is one thing you learn when track racing."
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This idea of letting go of the steering wheel is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. So last night I'm driving in the rain, and I thought about the "hands off" statement. In a long curve, I pushed the Z until the rear wheels lost traction. Immediately I opened my grip on the steering wheel. The Z went exactly where I wanted it to go: in the opposite direction of the skid. Its difficult to convince your brain to tell your hands to "let go," but it works (at least for oversteer). Thanks 350ZNV.

 

Yeah, trying to keep the car from doing something usually only makes it do something worse, .

 

Yep glad ive learned this at a young age..lol

 

lol. Thats a damn risky experiment. Do it more times to see if u get the same results.

 

Dont!!!!!

 

My hands are on the steering wheel, and I open my hands but keep them in place. The steering wheel rotates just as it should.

 

wouldnt this be the same thing as steering in opposite direction of the skid?

 

^^^^ yes, but letting the steerring wheel correct itself is easier than turning it to teh exact spot of correction. this is where a good driver would just correct, but we have all seen pics of a car that 'over'corrected, causing a more out of control spin. not to many drivers know how much to correct and thus the wreck turns out worse than it could have been.

 

Yes. But most interesting is that the front tires point where they should point without any input from the steering wheel.

 

Yeah..its wack. I did it and it threw it self back into the right course with so much force i thought i hit something.. it just was going straight.

 

Well...I did that, and drifted into the guard rail couple of months ago on Angles Crest.

Good thing too, it could of been worse...

 

PLEASE don't try this with a FWD hahaha