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Old 01-19-2005, 04:37 PM
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Senility wins over experience in the end

These kind of examples are fraught with huge variations. I bought a car from an 82 year old guy. He had been planning to build a Cobra as his next car His wife had been driving this one and talked me through it's handling, the way it coped with drift, standing water the lot. SHE clearly knew how to drive. NOT the same kind of octogenarian who uses their car to go to the bingo.

Stirling Moss can STILL push the cream of the up-coming teenagers to the back of the grid

Experience of the right things is what makes the difference.
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Understeer is hitting the wall with the front of the car
- Oversteer is hitting the wall with the rear of the car
- - Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall
- - - Torque is how far you push wall
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