[eriktherod]

Aww.. I keep looking at that poor thing's nose. As everyone has said, the most important part is you and the passenger walked away safely.

I used to turn the traction control off in my Si all the time, but that's a FWD car and the VSA was more a pain than it ever would help. Being my first RWD car and watching all the VSC videos, I dare not touch it on the FR-S.

I've done my fair share of stupid things on the road, I was just lucky that none of them resulted in something like this. While I've had moments in the Si where I've gone "uhoh, THAT was a bad idea" and recovered, I knew it could have ended badly if the conditions weren't right (traffic, location, etc).

Funny enough, the most terrifying one was in my first car, a Buick Century. Needless to say, not a performance car by any stretch of the imagination! My girlfriend at the time lived in a country area with some snaking roads that hardly anyone came down through. They had signs for "suggested 35mph turns" and honestly even that was a bit quick for some of them, especially the blind ones that had little-to-no shoulder.

I travelled that road quite often, so I felt comfortable taking them at decent speeds. One day, I was leaving her house in the morning to go to work and I guess I decided to push the limits on how fast I could take one of the turns. Needless to say, the Buick wasn't having it and I did a good 180 and landed in the ditch on the other side of the road. Fortunately, no damage to the car at all since it landed with the broad side parallel to the ditch. I was rattled so hard, I was shaking and looking around the car to make sure everything was fine -- not a scratch luckily. It's so scary when you turn from driver into passenger in your car, when you have no more control over the car when you lose traction.. it's a nightmare.

Just live and learn! Some lessons are more expensive than others but like everyone has said, it could have been a LOT worst. Sure, you feel sad over the car and scaring your passenger, but you don't have to worry about anyone's life on your conscious.