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Originally Posted by orthojoe
That is all you need for what happened to occur.
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And that is where things are really fascinating there. What I remember feeling was that the tail went right, then VSC pulled it left and then it started going right again (which I think might have been part of the VSC catching the leftward movement) at which point it just went the whole way around. You can see some of this I think if you watch the video very closely as the suspension unloads from the left hand side for two or three frames before starting to go around.
Irrespective of if the VSC over corrected and pushed the rear wheel out or if it was just natural oversteer, I have a major fault here in that I should have triggered my go straight recovery plan as I came to the berm with oversteer happening. Unfortunately I am not as experienced dealing with oversteer (and where the car is while oversteering) as I am with other non-optimal handling scenarios. Before this double day I had been using stock alignment and mostly all VSC on full so situations like this would have been nose first. Tail being the outside point (relative to the tarmac) is not something I have much experience with yet.
On a totally unrelated note, do you go with HOD very often? I've been to several with them so I'm wondering if I've seen you there.
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