Originally Posted by Track Rat

As to why I intentionally spun, I’ll do my best to explain: If a car’s velocity vector is pointed straight down the track and you lock up the brakes while sideways, the car will usually spin straight down the track. However if you try to save it while it is fishtailing, and it regains grip with a yaw angle of say 30°, the car may shoot off the track and may hit the wall. In the ACR with ESC and traction control fully off, I can keep my foot in the throttle and do a controlled drift until the car is back under control and pointed straight. But my yaw angle was something like 45°, and the nannies intervened and cut the power. So I couldn’t drift the car in a controlled fashion. You want to get on the throttle and weight transfer to the rear tires to regain control, but the nannies prevented that. The computer had taken over and I couldn’t predict the outcome. At that point, I threw in the towel and locked up the brakes, inducing a spin.