Car Drifting Simplified
Every car is unique. As a result, each car’s handling, traction, and dynamics are unique. It also implies that all automobiles are capable of understeering and oversteering. You might be wondering what those concepts are. We’ll go over them in depth later, but for now, know that if you don’t know how to deal with them, they can lead to some very terrible mishaps. What’s more, persons who grasp these concepts and become professionals at them might engage in drifting, which is a type of display or even racing. But it isn’t the point of this conversation. Let’s take a closer look at the concepts of understeer and oversteer.
What Is The Difference
When one of your car’s wheels loses grip on the road, you’ll experience both understeering and oversteering. When the front wheels lose traction, understeer occurs, making it difficult to turn the automobile in the desired direction. Oversteer occurs when the rear tyres of rear-wheel-drive vehicles lose grip, causing the car to continue moving in a specific direction even when the driver does not intend it to.
What To Do In Understeer
On ice-covered roads or other slick surfaces, understeering is common. It can also happen when the car is travelling at a rapid rate and loses traction on the road. The first thing to remember when dealing with understeering is not to fiddle with the steering wheel, since this may cause your car to lose control. As for what you should do, begin by progressively lowering your car’s speed. Take your foot off the gas and begin braking slowly and gracefully. As you slow down, your car will regain traction, making it easier for you to avoid any obstacles on the road.
What To Do In Oversteer
When an automobile is oversteering, the back end of the vehicle seeks to overtake the front end during cornering. Oversteering is common in rear-wheel-drive vehicles. A car can oversteer simply by applying the pedal and turning abruptly in a corner. When you push the brakes too hard into a curve or entirely come off the brakes during a quick turn, you get the same result. If you find yourself in this circumstance unintentionally, you must remember CPR (Correct, Pause, Recover). Correcting entails turning the steering wheel in the direction in which the car is sliding. The vehicle will then rotate and eventually slow down or come to a complete halt as a result of this. In other words, the rotation has come to a halt. The rear tyres will regain grip after this, and your vehicle will be able to recover from its oversteer.
