Re: Most dangerous braking situation...

["John Hofstetter" <hofs@domain.elided>]

Tom and others
That's so easy to say, but I wonder what I would really do if I was in a bad
skidding spin. I've never been in one bad enough that turning the way
instinct made move the wheel, hasn't brought me out of it. I think I'd have
to go to driving school on a frozen lake for a week to ever have turning in
the direction of the spin work for me, instinctively.
John H. 
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>From: Tom Mandera <tsm1@domain.elided>
>To: Steven Stegmann <s_stegmann@domain.elided>
>Cc: jmbrodsky@domain.elided, ihc@domain.elided,
DougRasmussen@domain.elided, hofs@domain.elided
>Subject: Re: Most dangerous braking situation...
>Date: Tue, Jan 5, 1999, 12:06 PM
>

>Well, from experience... first you turn into or against the spin.. that
>is, as your rear end comes around to your left, turn the wheel left..
>but once you go past 90deg to the direction you *want* to travel and
>start going farther.. I'd say around 110deg is the point of no return...
>crank the wheel *with* the skid (or, in the same clockwise spin, turn
>the wheel to the right) and make the spin *faster* and do the full 360
>and just keep it straight when you come back around the way you want to
>be heading.
>
>BTDT.. gotta love ice.
>
>That's also the same maneuver my friend's son uses when driving his
>Dad's '79 Big Bronco with 36s and a rear Detroit on bad roads.. he said
>it's just easier to go all the way around than fight the Detroit once it
>decides it's going around... of course, a 17 or 18yr old with a BBronco
>with a 460 and C6 doesn't help the situation either...
>
>-Tom