Glad you're alright. Car can always be replaced.

 

I've used it on purpose.

My wife won't go on drives with me anymore because I used it on purpose on 2 separate drives. Once I came in to a corner behind jeff... flying. I saw he was having trouble with grip so I had to choices. Slam on the breaks or speed up. I sped up. Late braked hard, lifted. Snap oversteer. Put my car in to a full drift on wet asphalt and powered through the corner. I still don't know how Jeff saved it because he went in to it without knowing. I had time to prepare. Dude can flat drive.

Another one I came in to a free way on ramp a little hot and looked at my wife and said... hold on. Lifted and used the oversteer to get around the corner. That was the last straw. She yelled at me about loosing control with her in the car. I couldn't seem to get through to her that if I knew it was going to happen I wasn't really loosing control.

The bad is when you don't know it's gonna happen. Or if it's wet/icy/muddy. Most of the wrecks happen when people drive too deep in to a corner, lift and it snaps on them. They panic and do the worst... hit the brakes. That brings more of a snap correction than a snap oversteer. The car comes back and next thing you know you're spinning. Lift/brake. Bad.

I've seen a few subies get lost that way... literally. Had one damn near flip on me on hammy.

 

That's what happened to me. Wasn't even drastic. I recognized I was going too fast a little too late. I very slowly easier the clutch in, downshifted and eased it out. Very very smooth. But it was just enough to set it loose. Best save of my life. This was a couple weeks ago.

And you know what... I pointed the finger straight at me. I ****ed up. Got very lucky.

 

I used to use it the snap on purpose too for when I would rally. And once in Mt Madonna. It's fun but dangerous at the same time.

 

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