Snap Oversteer & How You Can Use it To Go Faster...

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Snap or Lift-Off oversteer is a terrifying thing your car does when you go into a corner way too fast and, believe it or not, lift off the throttle – or hit the brake pedal. Both of these actions have the same effect. This causes the weight of the car to suddenly be thrown towards the front axle. And the rear tyres are lifted off the tarmac slightly, meaning they have less traction. The result, is oversteer, and a lot of it. Especially in mid engined cars, like the mister 2, in which the center of mass is already set more rearwards

The easiest way to prevent snap oversteer is of course, to simply drive the car properly. Any half decent driver will tell you that smooth is fast. You almost want to coax the car into doing things, rather than forcing it to. So, instead of going into a corner way too fast, violently braking and letting off the throttle as quickly as possible. Instead, brake in a straight line, turn in, and smoothly let off the throttle.

But of course, this probably isn’t the fastest way around every track.Sometimes, especially on the corners where snap oversteer is prevalent, it pays dividends to stay on the throttle. And this is what we call blending. The act of modulating the throttle through a corner. Not only does this make us faster through the turn, but it also keeps the weight of the car balanced between all four tyres – which if done smoothly and correctly, should totally negate snap oversteer. A fine balancing act between throttle and brake. You’ll need to use or blend all the throttle or brake to perfectly manipulate the weight of the car. If you go too hard or let off too quickly on either, the car will lose traction. Again, you need to be gentle and smooth with your inputs and stay on the throttle, even just a little bit to keep the car balanced whislt turning.

Now we’ve discovered exactly what snap oversteer is, and how to prevent it. Let’s see how we can use it to our advantage. Like all great driving techniques, the one I’m going to be covering today was birthed in rally. Steering isn’t as effective on gravel than it is on tarmac. The loose surface makes it incredibly hard for wheels to redirect the car without inducing massive understeer.
So, what did rally drivers do to combat this? Well, they started steering the cars using the pedals. I mean sure, they still turn the steering wheel, but again, that steering action is just to coax the car into the turn, whilst the bulk of the redirection is done with the throttle and brake.
These drivers would intentionally induce snap or lift off oversteer in order to rotate their car around a turn, or to correct understeer. They would then get back on the throttle, to shift the weight to the rear tyres and straighten the car up, or continue in a powerslide around the corner.
We can use these same techniques on tarmac, although we have a lot less leeway with the limits of grip on the grey stuff. Let me show you how it’s done.
Take this corner for instance. It’s seemingly a corner that requires constant throttle. However, depending on how the car, or if we’re going particularly fast, the car may indeed start to understeer, making us wash out wide, and once again get beached in the gravel.*show understeer*
But with using the technique im about to show you, we can actually totally negate the understeer, and carry on at nearly full momentum.
So, what can we do? Well, for not much time lost, we can quickly, but carefully, let off the throttle.
This will shift the weight to the front tyres, and stop the understeer, whilst rotating the rear of the car around the turn. Then, all you have to do is get back on the throttle. The rear tyres will speed back up to match the speed of the car, and you can accelerate away.




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