Autocross, Collection of the 6gc Member's thought on AUTOX Options

[jdg371]

http://www.throttlehorseracing.com/fourwhl...go_(1-8-05).jpg

A rough sketch of the track I will be running. Finally a couple of my friends are going! EK Civic, RSX, Sunfire, and of course.. the usual me (celica), my brother -MRS, and Corolla

The Corolla, Sunfire, and Civic will all be in the same class (STS)
Me.. as usual.. the same class as them Cooper S

Im building a in car camera mount right now. Hopefully I will have an in car and another video from the outside.

Its going to really hot. And theres thought of running nitrogen in my tires (they stay more constant with pressure) I just have to see till then


-Jasper

This post has been edited by jdg371: Sep 4, 2006 - 8:42 PM

[boosted_K2]

yes, it all deals with the same concept.

the short version:
your tires have a finite ammount of grip they can deliver (100% of available grip)

when you start asking them to do things (brake, turn, accelerate) they use a percentage of that available grip. in real basic novice concept you want to focus all 100% of the available grip on single tasks at a given time... you hit the braking zone... you want to use 100% of the tires to get you to slow down... you get into the turn, and you want to use 100% of the available grip to turn the vehicle.

when you get too deep and are using 80% of the available grip to get the car to slow down, THEN you try to use say 50% of the grip to get the car to turn... you are now at 130% available tire grip. voila! massive understeer. the concept of less steering + less throttle/brake input = more turning relies on the fact that you are now using less a percentage to turn, so as you unwind the wheel, the tire will start to get back closer to 100% and start to grip and make you actually turn again.

again this is a very basic/novice concept but works WONDERS for getting used to understeer/oversteer and braking... the other major contributor to this is slip angle, which is a little more advanced of a concept but deals with the same principals.