Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:02:41 -0400 From: Four Weis <mweinopsamcom> Subject: Re: 4 wheel drive
Many people drive cars for living - pizza delivery, taxi, messenger service, Enterprise rental staff, police and race car drivers. Only the last two typically are well trained. Since Chris has been racing SCAA for the past 7 years he should know how to drive. Why he chooses not explain "handling" I don't know, but he probably has his reasons. People with this skill level can take advantage of the handling characteristics of a RWD car. I am just an average driver, I don't drive around a controlled race track at 140 MPH - with other trained driver. I drive on crowded roads with other average drivers. In the real world of commuters, FWD is just fine- on a controlled race track, with the proper training I would prefer a RWD race configured car. davehinznopsamcop.net wrote: > Someone who looks an awful lot like Chris <smiecnopsami.com> wrote: > > I see you chose not to respond with facts. I drive cars for a living, have > > been racing in SCCA for the past 7 years, and certainly know how to handle a > > car. But there is no point to this discussion anymore, so I consider it > > closed. > > In other words, you don't want to define what "handling" means to you, > you have no comment on left-foot braking, and you don't know where > BMW has put the CG of their 3-series cars, or have any other explaination > for it's handling problems? > > It comes down to definitions. Are you talking about "which car has > the best handling on a dry autocross course", or are you talking about > "which car has the best handling in real-world situations". > > Whatever. I'm sure, since you 'drive cars for a living', decades of > practical experience driving on the actual roads is irrelevant. > > Dave Hinz