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Originally Posted by neutral
Well, before leaving work I decided it would be a good idea to turn off the traction control and try something similar in the FR-S. That was my first mistake.
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You know how all good stories start with, "so we'd been drinking..." I think a lot of accident stories start with, "so I turned of the traction control..."
This is so similar to how I broke my dad's 'vette it's not even funny. He never drives it, so I borrowed it for about 5 months. One day I was taking a co-worker out for a ride to show off the car. Step 1 was turn off the traction control. Then while exiting the parking lot, I put the pedal to the floor. All 350 HP swung the back end wide, then I corrected and continued to correct right back the other way. After going back and forth a few times I went straight into the curb, and broke a bunch of stuff at the front.
Our local Corvette mechanic is also a racing instructor (Danny Popp AKA RAFTRacer), and he told me I needed to start auto cross for two reasons. 1 to get my fix of driving like a moose in heat. 2 to learn to control the car at it's limits. BTW we're going auto crossing on Sunday. Back on the horse!
It can always be worse.
Brett