BmacIL
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- Sep 21, 2014
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- Naperville, IL
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- 2015 Guard GT Base, M/T
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Yeah, this is why it's best to keep near-limit driving on the track. Several years ago, I hit an exit ramp in my previous vehicle at what would be about 6/7 tenths in most conditions. What I did not know was that the ramp was oily from many tanker trucks passing through and it had just started to mist a little bit. Needless to say, 6/7 tenths became 11 and significant understeer occurred. I was completely fine, but my car was in the shop for about a month and needed ~$4,500 in repairs after going off the edge and ripping the front bumper off and slightly twisting the body.Ideally, you shouldn't be driving so close to either the car's limits or your own that you can't cope with most unexpected situations. And when hooning it on a highway ramp as appears to have been the case, you should at least expect more adverse possibilities to occur from time to time. We really don't know OP's whole story, and since he's been gone almost 3 months chances are we never will.
If you don't know what to do almost instinctively to make your car behave once it starts getting only a little loose - and know that you can do it - you shouldn't be trying to drive like a race car driver. If you can't tell when "a little loose" is starting to happen, you're going to fast or too hard for what your skill set can support. Yes, this means that you have to be aware of how close you might be crowding the above-mentioned limits at any given moment any time you aren't driving really 'easy'. Know your car. Know yourself.
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