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Re: No skirts in this email

To: "Moore, John" <jmoore@opentv.com>, <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: No skirts in this email
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 01:03:42 -0500
> Not necessarily, excessive oversteer is slower as is excessive understeer.
>Excessive understeer is usually easier to control and recover from.

Not for me.  I always start to do the wrong thing (tighten the steering).  I
always realize this right away, but "right away" is not fast in an
autocross.  I often think I need a hypnotist to beat this.

Oversteer, I natually correct.  Must be 33 Minnesota winters...

Phil Ethier    Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC   pethier@isd.net     http://www.mnautox.com/
"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.




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