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Originally Posted by Dammod
Exactly Fish. Although it was very scary to see that happen, it was a good reminder that things can happen so easily and just as quickly.
I spoke to the driver of the 350z, he said there was something on the track at the "kink" and the back just snapped around. You will see me tap off there slightly in the vid I posted. I had his words in the back of mind mind as I was going around 
I imagine a RWD car being much more susceptible to fluid on the track then a AWD car such as my Impreza that I am used to, so a little hesitant with things like that.
A Cape Town member was actually chatting to him before his accident. The 86 owner was telling him how he impressed he was with the handling of his(86) car.
The 350z owners reply and last words were "You think thats good?...you should try driving a 350z!"  |
AWD cars aren't a get out of jail free card when there's fluid around.
Hit fluid in a Scoobie and it just understeers right into the bush albeit in a nicely controlled manner, but it still goes off.
I've never driven a 350Z, but I had a long chat with a guy in the pit next to me at Zwartkops with a supercharged 350Z. He says it's very nose-heavy and handles like a tank. It was raining heavily that day, and he only did 3 laps of the Z in the rain, then packed up because he reckoned his car was totally unmanageable.