That is not east to do. I remember one night I was driving my girlfriends car in a snow storm down the highway and it decided to go sideways and I turned to correct and it went sideways the other direction, so I corrected again and it went back sideways opposite again, and every time I tried to correct it would just go too far again and then came the curve in the road and I went sideways right into the ditch and up the embankment and the car stopped on its rooftop
Yeah, that sounds about right. From just reading that, it sounds like you over-corrected - which would be normal. That's what most people do when they think they know what they're doing. New drivers just steer wherever. It's easy to over-correct, way too easy.
But, if you'd had a long-enough straightaway, you probably would have figured it out and not bumped into anything.
I call it The Axl Rose Shuffle when I go back and forth like that. The name should kinda clue you in - it's a steady and rhythmic affair.
LoL The Axl Rose Shuffle
The damned car went back and forth like that at least a half a dozen times before the curve. It probably didn't help that I was going 70MPH, but the damned thing did not want to straighten out, even with the slightest turn of the wheel, just enough to get it to come back. It would just keep going into the skid
You probably should have mixed some gas pedal with your adjusting. At that speed, unless you're freewheeling in neutral, you've got drag on your rear tires. Free 'em up to spin by applying a small amount of gas pedal.
And, yeah, start off slower and build speed...
I can do it on dry pavement 'cause I've got torque for days. It's started with a cut one way to load the suspension and a cut the other way while adding gas pedal to the mix - about one gear lower than you think you should be, don't be afraid of that rev limited unless you get to rev up to 8k or so.
Also, as near as I can tell, the ACR version of the Dodge Viper has no rev limiter. I can stomp on the gas, hold it, and straight up blow the engine.
Good...
I don't need a rev limiter. I've got ears and eyeballs.
The same is true with my street-legal M6 (the non GT3 version). The regular model has a rev limiter. Not so on the M model with the Competition Pack.
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