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Re: Race Car Stability and Safety

To: <gfp61@mindspring.com>, <ardunbill@webtv.net>
Subject: Re: Race Car Stability and Safety
From: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:28:17 -0700
Gary,
      This is OK if the vehicle has positive stability, if the balance is
wrong it can go from bad to worse.
Jim in Palmdale


>I simply--and almost
> literally--let go of the wheel for a second or so (I was basically just
> touching the wheel with the fabric of the gloves), and the car
straightened
> itself out. It's very similar, I think, to the extremely counterintuitive
move
> that aerobatic pilots will make when they're hopelessly spinning out of
> control--if they have the balls and the poise, they'll just let go of the
> controls completely, and the plane will right itself.
>
> Gary

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