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Feature: Mini winter driver training
« on: March 06, 2012, 04:05:05 am »


This course uses a variety of fun exercises in a rally-like environment - employing rally racing manoeuvres, says Grant Yoxon.

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Re: Feature: Mini winter driver training
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2012, 06:20:32 pm »
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The “Reverse 180” exercise taught us how to perform a 180-degree turn while in reverse gear, shift to a forward gear and continue on without losing control or much speed. This anti-terrorist manoeuvre is not something anyone would want to use on a public road, but it taught us how to create a pendulum effect that can be used to quickly turn understeer and its lack of steering into a controllable oversteer situation.

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