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.
Inexperienced drivers aren’t used to dealing with wheelspin and the tendency of powerful rear wheel drive cars to understeer (not wanting to turn when you turn the wheel) or oversteer (the backend sliding out when you try to turn).
These are easy to compensate for if you have the feel and experience for it, but for inexperienced drivers it’s very easy to get caught out by that and crash.
Inexperience, poor reactions, poor muscle control, cold tyres. People love to splash on 600whp monsters but don’t know their or its limitations.
Everyday cars have less power and newer ones all have traction control. That means that most of the time their tires have more than enough grip to keep them on the road and pointed in the direction they are steering.
The same is not true of supercars.
On top of what other people said, many of those cars actually have LESS safety features, or at least a way to disable them. So people disable them thinking they can handle it and they can’t.
It’s features like ABS, traction control etc. And they are able to be deactivate them because actual race cars don’t have those.
I don’t see how some drivers don’t feel how the car is reacting to mishaps/danger and chill out with the aggressive driving. Don’t floor it or drop multiple gears, and take your foot off the gas immediately if things go awry.
My first car was a ‘13 5.0 and later traded for the current generation. Its easy to fuck up in them if you’re ignorant or not paying attention. But I had to learn how to drive them in 5” of snow every winter and if you’re paying attention and not driving like a thoughtless bat out of hell they’re fine. With the mustang and most other high performance vehicles before 2020, you can definitely feel the rear end fishtail or about to in certain situations. You have to learn to predict when itll happen and go easy on the gas. 🤷
People are forgetting the most important aspect- physics.
They hit the gas, the rear wheels can break traction easily because of the power and lack of weight over the wheels, this sends the car into a burnout and usually sideways, the driver freaks out and quickly lets off the gas and maybe even hits the brakes. When this happens the cars slows down quickly but, but because of physics, shifts the weight over then front wheels, leaving the rear wheels with even less weight and thus less traction, sending the cars into a tailspin.
No one mentioned illicit drug use because we all know people that who can’t drive but can afford high power street racers are often…
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Some people have never had to turn out of a spin so when the back wheels kick out they instinctually turn away from the new direction they are going which actually is the direction the car is now rotating. This causes the car to spin faster and that usually results in an overcorrection which leads to going off the road.
Idiot + Powerful Car + Accelerator = Killed and Maimed Bystanders and a Wrecked car.
These ppl have no experience dealing with an out of control car. They don’t know how to USE the throttle. They just floor it! Then hope they can hang on to it.
Money does not guarantee intelligence!
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