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ddeflyer · 05-12-2014, 05:53 PM

My Subaru (or maybe it was me) decided to get in touch with its rallying roots this weekend. Here is the video:

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wig-xiC5dpY"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wig-xiC5dpY[/ame]

Basically I was exiting the esses right at about 100 Mph, had a little tank slapper (I've been learning to turn off the VSC and had it in sport to get more of a feeling of car reactions before turning it all the way off, and I was trying to hold fairly steady to let its do its thing instead of having too many cooks in the kitchen) and basically came right to the edge of the bumper or maybe past it (hard to say).

In any event, either I didn't release lock and go straight fast enough as the front wheel went off or the traction control was trying to overdamp the tank slapper and braked the left side as the right lost traction. The end result was one hell of a ride and a very, very dirty car. Luckily I stopped before that wall and the car (and me) seem to be fine (though one bleeder screw on my Sprint kit came a little loose but was fine after re-tightening it).

Tonight I will try and make the video a bit better. I threw this together this morning so I can show people what happened.

05-12-2014, 05:53 PM	#1
ddeflyer Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Drives: BRZ Location: CA Posts: 564 Thanks: 99 Thanked 284 Times in 191 Posts Mentioned: 12 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Spinning at Buttonwillow (1CW) My Subaru (or maybe it was me) decided to get in touch with its rallying roots this weekend. Here is the video: [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wig-xiC5dpY"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wig-xiC5dpY[/ame] Basically I was exiting the esses right at about 100 Mph, had a little tank slapper (I've been learning to turn off the VSC and had it in sport to get more of a feeling of car reactions before turning it all the way off, and I was trying to hold fairly steady to let its do its thing instead of having too many cooks in the kitchen) and basically came right to the edge of the bumper or maybe past it (hard to say). In any event, either I didn't release lock and go straight fast enough as the front wheel went off or the traction control was trying to overdamp the tank slapper and braked the left side as the right lost traction. The end result was one hell of a ride and a very, very dirty car. Luckily I stopped before that wall and the car (and me) seem to be fine (though one bleeder screw on my Sprint kit came a little loose but was fine after re-tightening it). Tonight I will try and make the video a bit better. I threw this together this morning so I can show people what happened. __________________ Fun car leads to autocross, autocross leads to track days, track days lead to lemons, lemons leads to racing school, racing school leads to spec Miata... No idea where it leads next!