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<blockquote data-quote="MFE" data-source="post: 15589270" data-attributes="member: 36397"><p>I liked Bondurant the best, for one simple reason: They're the only one I've been to that uses a Skid Car, which has an extra set of wheels on hydraulic-actuated outriggers. By taking weight off the front end, they can simulate understeer. Take it off the back end, they can simulate oversteer. Take it off both ends, it's like driving on ice. You navigate a figure-8 pattern in a big lot while they put you through different scenarios. </p><p></p><p>And here's the magic: The car responds <em>exactly</em> as it would as if the condition were occurring at higher speeds. Understeering? Let off the gas to shift weight forward, take steering out of it to get traction back on the front wheels. Boom, it tucks in. Oversteering? Steer into it, give it a little gas to get weight to the back, boom, it behaves. You learn the proper response and the muscle memory and you know what to do when it happens to you at 90 mph but you've learned it at 20 mph.</p><p></p><p>Bondurant also has in-car instruction, whereas (at the time), Skip Barber and Derek Daly relied on spotters with radios and an instructor would relay their input to you after you pitted in. Not nearly as effective.</p><p></p><p>The Russell school I attended was an Advanced course so it's a little different. It also rained almost the whole time and I didn't want to be on the hook for damage repair, so I didn't push it very hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MFE, post: 15589270, member: 36397"] I liked Bondurant the best, for one simple reason: They're the only one I've been to that uses a Skid Car, which has an extra set of wheels on hydraulic-actuated outriggers. By taking weight off the front end, they can simulate understeer. Take it off the back end, they can simulate oversteer. Take it off both ends, it's like driving on ice. You navigate a figure-8 pattern in a big lot while they put you through different scenarios. And here's the magic: The car responds [i]exactly[/i] as it would as if the condition were occurring at higher speeds. Understeering? Let off the gas to shift weight forward, take steering out of it to get traction back on the front wheels. Boom, it tucks in. Oversteering? Steer into it, give it a little gas to get weight to the back, boom, it behaves. You learn the proper response and the muscle memory and you know what to do when it happens to you at 90 mph but you've learned it at 20 mph. Bondurant also has in-car instruction, whereas (at the time), Skip Barber and Derek Daly relied on spotters with radios and an instructor would relay their input to you after you pitted in. Not nearly as effective. The Russell school I attended was an Advanced course so it's a little different. It also rained almost the whole time and I didn't want to be on the hook for damage repair, so I didn't push it very hard. [/QUOTE]
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