More track questions

[winddysvt]

Originally posted by 2KWhiteSnake
After "forcing" the car to oversteer, we practiced maintaining throttle and opening the steering wheel. The car would "jump" right back into position for the most part. I'm a novice, but throttle is everything when maintaining balance in our cars. I have an 01 and the IRS is unpredictable, even at low speeds. The most important thing was that you weren't hurt. Good luck in your next event.

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- I appreciate it -- thx for all the tips!! time for more "practice"... you can never get enough
however - I need help "again"....
this is important!!
my "description" --- my original description was incorrect..
I've been up every night rehashing-

reenacting this because something wasn't right.....
I know everyone says NOT to "rehash"... but I had to! This is a mystery for me..
-- most of you guys know me -- I am a careful driver and I did not pass the guy ahead of me for "safety" and for "courtesy" reasons...

PLEASE READ MY DESCRIPTION --- or - REREAD MY DESCRIPTION........

I know now that it DID NOT happen because I went "off the track" .... or "dropped a wheel" - and definitely not because I was in pursuit of someone !! thats is NOT
the reason.....

basically -- in "reenacting" the event over and over in my mind.... the description from Cliff.... what I "thought" happened --- isn't what happened. it took me almost a week of being awake at night to figure it out.... that is when I do my "best" thinking...

the slight spinning of the tires
the slight "imbalance"
happened after coming out of turn 5 -- I was in the middle of the track -- headed STRAIGHT in the correct direction towards the next turn!! REPEAT --- i was in the exact spot on the track where I should've been --- track on both sides of me when...



my rear tires spun
ON THE TRACK
as if something had gone "wrong" ... something "failed".... or, as if perhaps I hit a "grease" spot or oil in the middle of the track.
I was well away from the turn and at that turn there is no possible way I could've gone off track at that point. That's why my instructor and I were "bewildered" ....
in walking my tracks later something just didn't look right.
repeat:
the going off the track did not happen until

AFTER I SPUN !!

yes -- I know that I probably "spun "because I lifted my foot off the throttle --

however
- the mystery as to
exactly what happened to the rear at the time of "imbalance" remains a mystery --

why did the car become IMBALANCED ???



did something fail?


did another car "spill" oil and my rear tires "hit" it -- ?? My instructor felt that I was very smooth and all was going well -- I know that there was track on
both sides of us when we felt the "imbalance"... almost as if I was driving along merrily -- and then hit a "patch of ice" -- i know that feeling -- and that is what it felt like....


======== this was something I hadn't "learned" this was something I was not prepared for --- dropping a tire? yes --- but losing balance right on the track?

no ----- it never even came up in my mind.....



by the way --- I feel that most of you would probably do the same thing --- you wouldn't give it up until you had the "answer".....

[winddysvt]

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my suspicions are turning into
"actuality"
thanks to further investigations into "what happened" to cause the initial "imbalance"...

we will solve this mystery!!

[flynfink]

So this happened at IRP? In the carrosel??? Yeah, I crashed there in 1988.. in a FF. It's called marbles.... Gotta watch out for them.

[winddysvt]

Originally posted by flynfink
So this happened at IRP? In the carrosel??? Yeah, I crashed there in 1988.. in a FF. It's called marbles.... Gotta watch out for them.

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1988?



and no --
it didn't happen in the carousel...

that was my favorite part of the track!