I took my wife's car to work today for ****s and gigs and get a break from brake locking corolla I the rain. It just so happens that I practically locked all four up on my way to work in the wife's car. I don't know why middle aged women think its safe to decide to make a left turn through an intersection just as I'm entering the intersection going straight.

My commute is more accident avoidance than it is actual transportation.

And everyday in the rain some genius manages to spin and crash their cars in the same exact spot of 95 south. I saw it every rainy day last week, twice yesterday and again this morning. It's the ramp past the airport when people are coming from 420 down to 95. They spin and obliterate their cars into the guard rail head on.

 

I think the govt should put out a public service announcement acknowledging the dangers of cold tires.

 

They should. Cold tires get the best of us.

 

Locking up brakes on car with abs? Subtle "I have godly driving skill" post.

In all seriousness, there should be enhanced driving classes required for anyone to get a license. SOmething like they have in Finland.

 

Accident avoidance/Cold Tire Domination class begins 2/26/11 @ Thunderbolt. Your attendance is mandatory and I hear Fineberg is gonna school all us on how to get pointed by and lapped. should be REAL interesting...


Aaron GLWS!!!

 

I agree with the driver training stuff. Marc and I discussed it a little not too long ago.

It's all fine and dandy to offer such classes but it should be required that one takes a two year prep course on car control/handling. It's incredibly lame that the most difficult part of a drivers' test is parrallel parking. How is that useful? Yeah it's a skill you should learn but how does that determine whether you can actually drive or not. Someone working for a valet service can probably squeeze a car into a space quicker and more smoothly than I could but that doesn't mean he knows how to drive.

 

In Delaware, they delay schools for "cold tire" mornings. If it's also raining, schools are closed and bread shelves are empty.

 

Check out the Top Gear coverage of Finland's required driving school. I think those kids outhandle some advanced HPDE drivers.

 

^ its like that in most European countries. my cousin from france has to pay $500 for driving school before they can even get a driving permit. some people don't pass the first time and have to pay thousands to keep retaking the class. it aint a game over there fool. i want to hit up the nurburgring when i go visit him. he lives 5 hours away.

 

F this hpde stuff. I'm joining Club D. Drifting around the lightbulb, turns 4 and 7 is gangsta.

Btw is that Matt from RT tuning in the classroom shot?

http://vimeo.com/m/24404880

 

there was some kind of drift event at Summit Shenandoah last weekend when Chau and i was there. i've never seen a crowd that large on that track. 80% of the cars there were s13/s14 and just about every car had v8 swap. looked like most of them were high school or college kids. chau and i stopped over to check it out and got double parked in and made me late for my session. chau was about to drop kick some fool

 

they should have a drift event before every track day. mad rubber on track = mad grip.

 

This was my worst nightmare for hpde. My instructor at the last event we did was trying to get me to early apex turn 7 for some reason. I did it once and ran out of track quickly. I didn't do it again. It was just like this. Skip to 14 minutes but listen to the instructor's joke in the beginning.

http://vimeo.com/m/7336383

 

For 10 Nguyen points, can anyone, other than Pete or Thai, tell what the guy did wrong to crash into the wall?

 

Dan that is petty in the vid. I saw that a while ago and was like

drifting at lightning is fun. more so than I thought it would be. Looking forward to hanging the tail out a lot in the e30 next year.