Does anyone else think track mode makes normal mode feel sluggish and off?

[Norm Peterson]

My only issue with track mode is it turns of traction control.

honestly this thing is a screaming beast and I'm a bit nervous running with out TC.

I haven't tried it yet, but can you manually turn on TC in track mode?

I have yet to put my GT in to sport or track mode, if traction control gets disabled I'd be reluctant to put it in track, I thought there was a sequence of commands needed to turn off traction control though, is it really as easy as putting it into track mode?

Guys - that skinny pedal on the right really does have more positions than idle and wide open. Learn to use only what you need, within what you are comfortable using for the conditions of the moment . . . and no more. It really is that simple.

The level of reliance on TC that is coming through loud and clear in the above two quoted posts is not the way that TC is intended. The car is not going to spit itself off the black stuff just because TC is off, and to believe that you're constantly on the edge of that happening is to fall victim to scaremongering. That you are inherently incapable as a driver regardless of how much driving experience you might have.


There was a time when I had difficulty imagining how it could be possible to hold the accelerator pedal such that a legal and fairly constant speed could be maintained. Driving without TC providing some artificial limits really isn't all that much different from learning that speed control can be done entirely by yourself. Either way, it's still "throttle modulation", and that's your responsibility even with TC = on.


Norm

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[fionic]

Guys - that skinny pedal on the right really does have more positions than idle and wide open. Learn to use only what you need, within what you are comfortable using for the conditions of the moment . . . and no more. It really is that simple.

The level of reliance on TC that is coming through loud and clear in the above two quoted posts is not the way that TC is intended. The car is not going to spit itself off the black stuff just because TC is off, and to believe that you're constantly on the edge of that happening is to fall victim to scaremongering. That you are inherently incapable as a driver regardless of how much driving experience you might have.


There was a time when I had difficulty imagining how it could be possible to hold the accelerator pedal such that a legal and fairly constant speed could be maintained. Driving without TC providing some artificial limits really isn't all that much different from learning that speed control can be done entirely by yourself. Either way, it's still "throttle modulation", and that's your responsibility even with TC = on.


Norm

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[Norm Peterson]

normal feels very boring. Sport mode gives you much more response to your input

As long as you realize that there are situations where it is possible to have too much throttle response. Autocross (dry or wet), during a wet track day session, or just driving in a heavy rain being three of the more obvious ones. Under such conditions, I'll take your definition of boring over what would be way too exciting, thank you.

And to NVPony and Celestias, no, I don't have TC on even then. At autocross or out on the track you can't dance at the limit when TC won't let you get up there. On the street, you just don't go up there anyway.


Norm

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