Had a student do the same thing coming out of 10B and cracked his oil pan; you have some nice footage here, easy to spot the mistakes, or the places for improvement.... Try to do a figure 8 in wet grounds, practice throttle steer, and weight transfer oversteer... you big fall is on car control skills, faster and on time corrections would've kept the car straight in all those cases.
Regarding spinning at T6 (or any turn for that matter) in an NB, it's REALLY easy. Follow these simple steps: 1) Hit the brakes hard so weight transfers from the rear tires to the front tires. 2) Turn the steering wheel without first releasing enough brakes to get weight back on the rear tires. I spin will result every time :) I agree about T3. Wheel should be close to straight when jumping curb. I have learned a lot since crash and can now do low 44s (see recent vid :) Thanks for watching.
Yes - autoX would be a good idea. I've already crashed it once at T3. But i'm slowly getting faster. When I was just starting out with street tires and stock suspension, I would not be smooth with braking and turn in. I would have a bad tendency to turn the steering wheel when i still had a lot of brake pressure. Thus, there was very little weight on rear tires so i'd spin. I've stopped doing that. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing. Im interested in learning doing an hode this summer and some autocross. I have a rwd car though. Im sure the technique is probably different in a rwd car.
“mistake 3,” you’re driving a Miata, passing other miatas that are slowing down as they approach the corner, and you’re still doing damn near 120mph straight into it….. what did you expect other than to overshoot? 😭😭 can’t get too h*rny for that pass, my boy
Wow how did you spin a stock Miata at 6. Turn 3 you have to have the wheels straight. Its what got you in the crash. I've had my stock Miata out and can't get it to spin. 2001 nb miata
@rafaelnos Thanks for watching! I will keep trying to go out on rainy days with tired tires in a parking lot near home and practice car control. I know i have slow hands - maybe with seat time i'll get better. Right now I have about 10 hrs with the good suspension and tires. Also, I've never had a good seat/harness so with Hoo's i was always holding onto the steering wheel since i was coming out of stock foamectomy seat. But this season (2012) I'll have proper race seat, harness, cage.
@stephen0p0g Guilty as charged - for turn 6, the walls are a bit further away so i can take on a little more more risk when trying higher entry speeds etc. It is fun though.
@laughsatposers Hopefully I will be able to avoid the walls. The whole segment from T3 thru T5 scare me the most. I have done 97mph thru the esses and a mistake would almost guarantee hard contact.
Where the hell is the instruction? The first two spins the instructor didn’t say a word even though you were going way too fast for your first time out. He should have been telling you to slow down and work on hitting the apexes. He also didn’t even correct your hand position. Then you were apparently signed off and again you were way too fast and missed a lot of apexes. Perhaps I was spoiled by doing PCA drivers education. You simply shouldn’t spin during DE sessions, much less 4 times in 4 DEs. That is not only dangerous for you but the other drivers as well.
Fun vid! I enjoy watching whoopsie vids as long as no one gets hurt. If interested I have my own track videos posted on my TH-cam channel. You might catch me in my own spin or two or three or... ;) Keep safe out there!
Had a student do the same thing coming out of 10B and cracked his oil pan; you have some nice footage here, easy to spot the mistakes, or the places for improvement.... Try to do a figure 8 in wet grounds, practice throttle steer, and weight transfer oversteer... you big fall is on car control skills, faster and on time corrections would've kept the car straight in all those cases.
Regarding spinning at T6 (or any turn for that matter) in an NB, it's REALLY easy. Follow these simple steps:
1) Hit the brakes hard so weight transfers from the rear tires to the front tires.
2) Turn the steering wheel without first releasing enough brakes to get weight back on the rear tires.
I spin will result every time :)
I agree about T3. Wheel should be close to straight when jumping curb. I have learned a lot since crash and can now do low 44s (see recent vid :)
Thanks for watching.
Autocross is the best place to learn car control. I honestly don't see how you managed to spin that thing out so easily.
So much better to learn there where its safe! Good work.
What kind of camera were you using and how did you get the telemetry on it?
Yes - autoX would be a good idea. I've already crashed it once at T3. But i'm slowly getting faster. When I was just starting out with street tires and stock suspension, I would not be smooth with braking and turn in. I would have a bad tendency to turn the steering wheel when i still had a lot of brake pressure. Thus, there was very little weight on rear tires so i'd spin. I've stopped doing that.
Thanks for watching!
Smooth is fast, what did your instructor say. I would be afraid to be on the same track with that many accidents.
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Thanks for sharing. Im interested in learning doing an hode this summer and some autocross. I have a rwd car though. Im sure the technique is probably different in a rwd car.
the car in my videos is rwd. just get some good instruction and remember: smooth hands
“mistake 3,” you’re driving a Miata, passing other miatas that are slowing down as they approach the corner, and you’re still doing damn near 120mph straight into it….. what did you expect other than to overshoot? 😭😭 can’t get too h*rny for that pass, my boy
If you watch my other videos, you will see that my luck runs out (March, 2012).
Road Atlanta is a ball buster.
Thanks for watching !!
I know I'm about a decade late, but for anyone that happens across this video, brake in a straight line until you're good at driving.
Wow how did you spin a stock Miata at 6. Turn 3 you have to have the wheels straight. Its what got you in the crash. I've had my stock Miata out and can't get it to spin. 2001 nb miata
seems like you like that corner a lil bit
This is cool stuff......especially the SLOW MOTION!!!!!! +100mph?
@rafaelnos Thanks for watching! I will keep trying to go out on rainy days with tired tires in a parking lot near home and practice car control. I know i have slow hands - maybe with seat time i'll get better. Right now I have about 10 hrs with the good suspension and tires. Also, I've never had a good seat/harness so with Hoo's i was always holding onto the steering wheel since i was coming out of stock foamectomy seat. But this season (2012) I'll have proper race seat, harness, cage.
@stephen0p0g Guilty as charged - for turn 6, the walls are a bit further away so i can take on a little more more risk when trying higher entry speeds etc. It is fun though.
@laughsatposers Hopefully I will be able to avoid the walls. The whole segment from T3 thru T5 scare me the most. I have done 97mph thru the esses and a mistake would almost guarantee hard contact.
In fact, my luck runs out at T3, the first segment in this mistake compilation. I guess that means something - not sure what.
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max was 116 mph on back straight
Where the hell is the instruction? The first two spins the instructor didn’t say a word even though you were going way too fast for your first time out. He should have been telling you to slow down and work on hitting the apexes. He also didn’t even correct your hand position. Then you were apparently signed off and again you were way too fast and missed a lot of apexes. Perhaps I was spoiled by doing PCA drivers education. You simply shouldn’t spin during DE sessions, much less 4 times in 4 DEs. That is not only dangerous for you but the other drivers as well.
Fun vid! I enjoy watching whoopsie vids as long as no one gets hurt. If interested I have my own track videos posted on my TH-cam channel. You might catch me in my own spin or two or three or... ;) Keep safe out there!
Who is this bad at driving a Miata wtf