A quick lesson in how not to 4 wheel drift from a corner..... Ooops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbwwUyEkb_E

Cant see that being cheap to bring home.

Exactly the same thing happened to an Evo driver trying to be clever when I was there for a trackday earlier this year. Except there was an M3 CSL just coming out of the pits and he hit that instead of the wall...

That is a pitiful piece of driving

Its got nothing to do with the vehicle being 4x4.

Judging by the fact the driver doesn't even attempt to correct, I'm guessing they've never driven fast before

Its driving like that stops me going to track days.

Edited 12 September, 201015 yr by snow_muncher

Nice a firmly on the brakes I see.. front end dipped quite badly as it was 'drifting' :S

And what did he say 10 seconds prior to the corner................... "yeah, watch this mate.........................................ooooohhhhh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.....!"

I really don't get that, what happened to turning the steering wheel, surely that would have been a good place to start - either one way or the other would have prevented hitting the wall by spinning it or straightening it out.

i can't believe that somebody would be that stupid if they owned a high performance car..

The "Red Mist" descends - see a car in-front that they consider to be inferior - RWD Mazdza after all - no match for my 4WD Scooby - I'll show him ...

I bet the Mazda driver was s******ing away @ the site in his mirrors

ps

why has s-n-i-c-k-e-r-i-n-g been censored !?

Edited 16 September, 201015 yr by snow_muncher

n-i-c-k-e-r ?

what a ****.

n-i-c-k-e-r ?

As in "knicker"? :no:

Maybe, it thinks something is amiss and those were the letters blocked. But it allowed you to post it so I don't get it.

nicker, nicker, nicker... I guess not. So the word was Snickering? or s******ing?

OK, you didn't snicker, you s>insert racial slur here<d instead. That's why it was blocked.

Edited 16 September, 201015 yr by Buzzark

That's one FUBAR algorithm its using

what a ****.

oh dear - apparently that plate is now on a BMW M3 CSL COUPE

That'll cost even more to mend

... apparently that plate is now on a BMW M3 CSL COUPE ...

An even bigger chav-wagon than the scooby - Wonder how it'll be crashed (just hope its not into someone else )

Utter fool. So many people don't know how to correct a slide and find out the expensive way.

Should this be taught in driving lessons?

Utter fool. So many people don't know how to correct a slide and find out the expensive way.

Should this be taught in driving lessons?

I understand that in learning to fly, a lot of the time is spent in learning how to cope with unexpected bad things that might happen to you, whereas most driving instruction is about controlling in normal conditions when everything is working.

On the other hand you probably don't want learners practising this stuff on the road - I think there should be more car driving simulators (like the flight simulators) and make coping with emergencies part of the standard driving instruction.

I spent a lot of time on the beach and learned a lot about car control. There is corner on the way to work which is tight and the amount of times I've seen cars crashed on the inside of the corner. They must get out of shape and do the same a the chap above.

Drivers need to learn what to do if a car here out if shape. Not always cause of speed. Had the back get away from me one night. Down a hill with a camber change and there was ice. I corrected it without even thinking. If I hadn't I'd be in the ditch with a wrecked car.

Utter fool. So many people don't know how to correct a slide and find out the expensive way.

Should this be taught in driving lessons?

very true, if he had only kept his foot in and let the 4wd sort it out he would have been fine, you see quite a lot of evo drivers trying to correct slides on trackdays, usually they end up in a wall to, 4wd car + slide+ inexpieriece= crash!!!!!

Unreal

A bit of opposite lock with a bit of throttle is all that would've taken to sort out... numpty...

I watched this again and saw that the driver does add a little opposite lock. I wonder which sort of differential set up he has? I mention this as a previous owner of 2 early Scoobys (I’m an original girl racer I think ) they had Torsen and Viscous type diffs, but liked to understeer unless provoked and then they tended to drift n that 4x4 stylee you often see. But I found you needed a lot of space to sort it all out if that happened. My current car is a Quattro A4 and accelerating pretty hard round a left hand bend in the dry yesterday, I managed to get the rear to breakaway rather well (a lot more ‘rather well’ than I had thought possible with a diesel version), but as the car has the full ADS system and active Sports diff, the behaviour was very different to the Scoobys’. It handled much more like a RWD car and responded to a ‘Dab of Oppo’ and a gentle touch on the accelerator. Very enjoyable if not something I would recommend in a built up area

I should add that I agree the driver of the Scooby made a bit of a dogs dinner of it. Oh and the M3 CSL! call me a chav n waiting then, I would love to be able to afford to run one-a truly great car.

I also had a scoob, the one thing you shouldn't do (at least in mine) was to back off in a fast turn especially if things got out of shape. It was as simple as, point the wheels where you want to go and keep the power on. Sometimes in a slide you could steer dead ahead and keep the power on and it'd still sort itself out. The guy appears to back off, and apart from the wheels heading ever so slightly in an opposite lock direction I don't see nearly enough lock going on. He must've been gripping the wheel a bit because I always found, when oppo lock was needed, the car practically steered itself anyway!

I know it's easy to sit here and judge, but I'm absolutely convinced I got out of an infinitely worse scrape one time on the B&Q roundabout near St Helens :D

PMSL.