Why do so many inexperienced drivers of powerful cars accelerate and lose control?

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What is so hard about it? What should one do to not have this happen but still take advantage of the car’s power?

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They are rear wheel drive. On a rear wheel drive car, when the wheels slip, the car acts like a dart thrown backwards (with the front wheels serving as fins). It wants to flip around.

On a front wheel drive car, the rear wheels act like the fins, so the car naturally tries to point forward when you hit the gas too hard. On top of this, even when slipping, the wheels push the car in the direction that they are turned, so steering still behaves normally-ish. In RWD, when you start to spin, straightening requires more so angling the wheels almost perfectly in the direction you’re moving.

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