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RE: How AutoXers drive (Re: SUV explosion)

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Subject: RE: How AutoXers drive (Re: SUV explosion)
From: iagreen@ucdavis.edu
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:07:28 -0800 (PST)
> Okay, how, in your normal daily driving habits, do you scare the bejezers
> out of your passengers?
> 
> For me, it's usually seeing the light at my left turn a block away turn
> green, mashing the throttle, actually USING the brakes and then briskly
> sweeping a clean line through the intersection.  Not really over the 
speed
> limit by much and only briefly, no tire squealing, not even close to ABS
> lockup on the deceleration or traction limits when cornering, but the
> combination of that maneuver has made some co-workers swear to never ever
> ride with me again.  ;-)
> 
> -Carl
> 


Thats a great benefit to running in STS or other street tire classes! Your 
always on your race tire! (Note no tire squeal on course either). Once had 
a girl hit her head on the windshield during braking, didn't notice she 
wasn't wearing her belt! Also did great on my driving test except the 
evaluator said I took corners way too fast, and that was in an 84 Ford LTD 
and I thought I was driving so slow I could've taken a nap.

Ian Green
Team Leader 
Formula SAE
University of California, Davis
http://mae.ucdavis.edu/~fsae
CSCC,SFR STS 99
1997 Honda Civic CX
www.geocities.com/stscxr

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