SafeSpeed wrote:
My 'lizard brain' found a neat, quick and safe solution. Can you figure out what it was, and why it worked?
Here's what I did - totally without conscious input.
I banged down the clutch (which obvously takes the engine and throttle input completely out of the equation). I was then able to reverse the lock and steer to my free lane on the left without a hint of loss of control.
The 'classic' approach in such a situation is to feather the throttle. But if you lift off too much you get lift-off oversteer. If you don't lift off enough, given the forces already at play, you'll probably get power oversteer when the steering lock reverses.
I have *absolutely no idea* how I figured to bang down the clutch in the split second it took. No one had ever suggested such a technique to me; I'd never thought about it before; and after the event I'm left thinking: "where the hell did that come from?" The whole thing still seems utterly bizarre. But it worked.