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1) When you encounter understeer, let off the throttle. DO NOT APPLY THE BRAKES. Off-throttle will recover the fastest, while lowering your steering input some. This gives the car the most amount of time and least resistance to re-gain traction, and at ~30mph, the car will recover traction very, very quickly and you'll be on your way.


2) Don't INCREASE steering input during an understeer, it will prolong the understeer event. Don't INCREASE tire loading in any way. It sounds like you did both- turned harder, and pressed the brakes hard. You need to train yourself not to panic and steer away from the curb more and slam on the brakes. You WILL crash. Which leads me to my 3rd pont-


3) Go to a car control clinic hosted by your friendly local BMW, Porsche, or other enthusiast driving club. They will teach you how to counter understeer, oversteer, extreme braking maneuvers, and many other scenarios. I personally consider this mandatory driver training for anyone that is on the road. Costs $100, and literally saves every driver that takes it many thousands of dollars in repair costs, insurance rate increases, etc.




ALL BRZ/FR-S drivers need this training- I can tell you the vast majority of the accident threads I've seen all can be corrected with a simple understanding of how to correct understeer or oversteer properly. People have learned how to drive with nannies for the last decade, and this has removed the knowledge of how to actually drive your car from the general population. Now you just turn the wheel and press the pedals, instead of DRIVE.