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Originally Posted by CSG Mike

What you experienced was slip angle. Maintaining slip angle is the fastest state of cornering.

It's what people are referring to when they say that they feel like the car is "floating" when I drive, and that my steering inputs seem to have no correlation with what the car is doing.

At a basic level, your steering inputs shift the direction of the front of the car. At a more advanced level, your driving inputs shift the thrust angle of the car.

I've only had a few experiences with balanced, steady state slip angles and it is one of the pieces that I am trying to put together.

Earlier in the day I managed to get just the right balance of smooth entry, throttle and initial speed to get VSC to allow substantial slip angle through the bus stop. It was an amazing feeling as I released some of the steering lock (what felt to me like a slight counter steer though the wheel was still turned into the turn) and just kind of gained speed as the car turned so nicely! I want to get better at the pre-conditions for that so I can confidently disable the VSC and know how the car will behave.

I'd had it the weekend before once at T-Hill also. Going around turn 6 when I got just the right throttle at turn in. That time I was scared and didn't hold it there but it was such an amazing sensation. Prior to that I'd only had some brief moments of slight rear slip angle when I got my tires greasy going over 5, so it just felt crazy and scary to have the car move underneath me like that.