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Originally Posted by flightlead404
Due to trailing throttle oversteer from a sudden lift during a lane change due to a moron jerk who was trying to block me from passing him as he dawdled along in the fast lane....
I did an absolutely perfect slow 360 turn without leaving my lane. At one point I was eyeball to eyeball with said driver doing 80mph backwards, watching as his wife beat him.
I drove off like "I meant to do that"
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Originally Posted by Alan L
That is unbeatable.
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Agreed.
My story is on the opposite end of the spectrum: deceleration. I did something foolish. I was in the canyons, and I thought "let me try some threshold braking." The next corner was a downhill right-hander. So instead of lifting off well in advance, I kept my foot buried in the throttle until a late late moment. I hit the brakes, and it was all going fine until the left front locked up. So many thoughts went through my head in those couple seconds. What if I go wide and someone just happens to come the other way? How strong is that metal guardrail on the outside of the corner? Am I going to just destroy the side of the car? Or is it a long long way down to the bottom?
Fortunately I gathered it back up and negotiated the corner with only my ego damaged. On the way back up the hill when I came to that corner, I could see one single black tire streak: the left front. It was entirely on my side of the double-yellow, as intended (thank goodness). But it started because I had hit a Botts dot, which is what initiated the lock-up.