My skid pad was the parking lot of a building a friend owned. Unfortunately he
sold the building. Really any large parking lot works fine as long as you can
keep the car in a reasonably fast constant turn. It's not that big of a space
but you need to be able to hold the turn and get up to some speed.
On Sep 10, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Larry Young wrote:
> Actually, the use of skid pads goes even further back. I recently read the
biograph of Zora Arkus-Duntov (of GM/Corvette fame). He talked about the
origins of the skd pad. Unfortunately, I can't remember the details. I
believe he learned about it when he was in Germany (1930's or 40's). He
networked a lot with Porsche and drove one to a class win at LeMans. He
claimed he put the Porsche engineers onto using it in the early 1950's. The
book is a good read even though I'm not a Corvette guy.
>
> The problem I've always had with skid pads is where can you find to do it?
> - Larry
>
> Bill Babcock wrote:
>> Nothing new in any of this, and I certainly didn't invent it. Penske,
Donahue,
>> McLaren, and I'm sure Kastner knew all about it 40 years ago.
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