let's NOT wreck it!
After studiously reading this thread, I have some observations and then questions for those that 'have been there, done that' and know far more than me. I've been 'sideways' many times, as we all have, and usually it's intentional on a track in Z06, P-car, BMW or whatever, but never in an FGT. Now from reading lotsa instructional tomes, we can easily acquire the intellectual knowledge that when close to the edge of oversteer a sudden lift is easily the best way to turn an 'exciting' situation into a potentially disastrous one---but it's not intuitive when in the cockpit that staying in the throttle while perhaps ever so slitely modulating downward is the correct thing to do. Knowing something in one's head, doesn't always allow one to 'do the proper thing' during the exigencies of the moment. Hence, many of us, I would posit, must learn this lesson in real life---and a Porsche is a 'great' teacher of this truth. To paraphrase (with apologies to Animal Farm), 4 rubber patches good, 2 rubber patches bad.
Having learned that, I drive my Z06 in any temperature!! With the appropriate awareness that tyre and surface temp changes things drastically. This car is way lighter than FGT... and stronger(but that's another story). And I'm not being saved by electronics. One learns that the GY F1's quickly work harden from heat cycling and are slippery as cow-snot, so I'm on Mich PS2's now.
Are you gents saying that the FGT is somehow a different beast, and that the cold-weather driving skills one has acquired from other grotesquely overpowered creatures, as well as that tough taskmaster the P-car, don't apply??
Oh yes, and rain... well that's a whole 'nother level of loss of adhesion. We'll save that one for later.
Please educate me b4 I'm off in the ditch!
As always thanks, bma2
