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Video: Ride at Barber in 2009 911 Turbo AWD and Cayenne Turbo
It was cold out on the track at Barber Motorsports Park today - but a couple of great rides in great Porsches warmed me right up! No music, no fancy editing, pure Porsche fun here. I visited Porsche Sport Driving School at the end of their weekend 2-day course and joined them for a hot lap ride (or two as it turned out).
In this video, you'll find hand-held in-car video of a single lap in the Cayenne Turbo, then a real hot lap (twice around) in the 2009 Carrera 911 Turbo AWD. The way driver John Lewis used the rotation of the back end in the hairpin (T5) was a thing of beauty. A little sideways action as we take the turn-around for lap 2. FUN FUN FUN! Hope you enjoy:
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01-11-2009, 08:08 PM
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Drifting with AWD
Watching this again got me wondering - I always thought that it was hard if not close to impossible to drift in an AWD car. It doesn't show all that well here, but we went on a really cool shimmying little slide at one point (turnaround to lap 2), and several times I felt the rear end rotating in tight turns, which I guess surprised me in an AWD car. Even a rear-engine 911! It was awesome and totally controlled, but it left me scratching my head over the whole AWd thing.
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01-12-2009, 12:29 PM
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Thanks for posting that. It was interesting to hear the instructor talk through the corners.
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01-12-2009, 01:44 PM
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Yup, you can drift a C4 in tight radius turns. At an autocross training session last year, we set up a 50' circle of cones. Once I got the car (1990 C4) to drift, I could circle the course, drifting the rear. All related to the amount of throttle input. A great learning exercise for any Porsche.
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01-13-2009, 02:42 AM
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