An oversteer question

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Curt;

I'm by no means an expert on all this,just relaying my expeirences....If going into the corner you are fine and coming off the corner you are "loose" or have oversteer,it could also be applying to much power on exit and breaking the rear tires loose.... Had that problem at Nashville in one sharp U turn to the right,downshifting to second and getting on the power a little too hard and having to "chase" the rear end which was messing me up for the next corner.... I began "feathering" the throttle and that helped some,one session I tried running this corner in third gear and seeing how it would do.... My lap times came down because I was not having to chase the rear end and being in third gear I could just floor it coming off the corner and I actually could run the next two S's wide open and because I came off the corner slower,I actually went faster overall.... Goes back to the old saying "sometimes you have to slow down to go fast". I proved it right... Luckily with my gearing and tires I could run thru the course in third gear and only had to shift to fourth on the long straight-a-way..

I'm not real familar with "torque" oversteer or quite sure exactly what you are describing..... I call an oversteer or loose condition when the rear end wants to come around on you,weather going in or coming out of a turn,understeer or tight is when you go into a corner or come out of a corner and the front doesn't hold and it wants to go straight instead of turning,those terms are what I call it,not nesccasarily what others call it,just my terms and understanding of it....

I'm assuming what you mean by torque oversteer is the rear end wants to come around on you under power???? If so,then all I could suggest is working with rear tire air pressure and feathering the throttle or even possibly staying in one higher gear thru that corner thereby when you get back on the throttle you will not have as much torque or power going to the tires soo fast....

Hope this helps,if we have any road race guru's out there,please chime in,I'm all ears....

David