mkd944

Lose control, remember that feeling , don't do it next time.

Seriously though, IMHO, autocrossing will help you get quick hands with low relatively risk to your car or you.

DrJupeman

Autocrossing and karting.

Crazy Canuck

Skid pad or snow.

I learned car control snow plowing. I learnt to not get stuck add more gas. To not spin don't lift. Many of the problems of snow plowing can be solved by more gas.

Veloce Raptor

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Scootin159

Autocross test & tune day. Typically about $30 and you can run all the skidpads, sloloms, Chicago boxes, increasing or decreasing raius turns you want. Nothing beats seat time.

butzip

Bingo!!

Glen

Old post but the tips still apply, would also add to drive Your car ontrack in the rain every time You get the chance...

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Here are some ideas I posted awhile back...should help alot in Your situation.

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Here are a couple of exercises I have always used at the track that will help with the problem of getting stuck behind slower traffic, or trains. When I start to gather traffic even in the Instructor groups I begin to drive off line and try to get through the corners as quick as the car ahead who is online. Another method is to cut the track in half and make the track You are on only half as wide. in one session run the left half and then try the right half. The last exercise is to drive the marbles line. All of these allow You to be a much quicker driver , or in a much quicker car and still allow You to drive at or near the limit while slowing you down effectively. These drills also make You much more prepared to handle adversity at various tracks whether in a DE or Race environ. Just a couple of thoughts.
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FlatSix911

We have a winner ... the correct answer is Snow ...

I magnifies the effect of driver input and highlights the results!

ltc

Karting, especially in the rain, will teach you how to drive with your *** and feel the car beginning to move much earlier than you can imagine.

DarkSideDE

We don't have snow in the South... (well, extremely rarely that is). One of our instructors, Geoffrey, (he teaches teens how to be safe drivers) loves to tell drivers to do a DE in the rain. He promised them they'd learn more about car control on a rainy day then they would driving lots of sunny day DEs. I guess that's the closest we come to snow down here....

RSA333

Skid-car not skidpad. They are designed well for this, but need an instructor or relative to throw it into understeer or oversteer mode when you are not expecting it.

kurt M

Winner! Only took 15 posts and one boob joke from Dave.

Best seat time you can get for the buck. You can learn car control (traction managment) and race craft at the same time.

Gary R.

The DE in the rain is a great idea in theory, but IMO not in practice at our two most popular tracks (Watkins Glen and Limerock). Loss of control at either is a 90% chance of ending your day and/or wrecking your car. NJMP has some room to play but I wouldn't do it there either.. wet grass/mud may as well be ice.

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+1

I learned car control with a daily commute from Akron to Cleveland through three winters in an Mazda RX7 on summer tires. Learning car control was a matter of survival.