I'm sure you've seen, and even worse, heard it. The awful sound of a car nose or underneath crunching and scraping on a driveway or slope. At best, it'll be a minor scrape nobody can see but you, the owner, know…
You hear it all the time - "...and he had a snap of oversteer..." or a "...big snap of oversteer....", sometimes a "....BIIIIG snap of oversteer!" especially if you're watching the excellent Karun Chandok or one of Jolyon Palmer's brilliant dissections…
There's plenty of mistakes made on racetracks, and they can end up rather expensive or painful. So I'm analysing a few in the hope of helping myself, and others not make those same mistakes again!
1. Lotus Elise Oversteer
The first one…
If you drive on a racetrack for racing, hotlapping, HPDE, track days, sprints or whatever then it's a good idea to record your laps. There's many reasons; it's fun, and if you analyse the footage or get experts to have their say…
What are snow chains, why do you need them, and when must you carry or fit them?
What are wheel chains or snow chains?
Wheel chains are chains that fit around a vehicle's tyre to create a very agressive tread pattern which…
There's a persistent myth about not using cruise control in the wet. It is perpetutated by posts like this:
I had a wreck a couple of weeks ago and totaled our Lincoln Town Car. I hydroplaned on Hwy 135 between Gladewater &…
If you do any car control course, and you should if you're into any form of motorsport of offroading, then you'll need to learn the art and science of skid recovery.
You may be told "turn into the skid" or "countersteer" or…
Going to either Phillip Island Raceway or Sandown Raceway in Victoria? Want some example laps so you know the lines? This is the page for you!
Phillip Island
Here's a short video I put together for our club's annual Come and Try…
Modern tyres are more puncture-resistant than ever, so many cars simply don't come with a spare tyre as carmakers claw back the space and weight, fighting to meet efficiency targets.
This is all well and good until you actually have a puncture,…
The little things count. Sometimes a car is changed, you look at it and think "that's better" but you can't pin down exactly what changed or how. In that case it's probably tiny little changes that you don't notice invidually, but…