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05-23-2008, 04:46 AM
It's suprising how much the rain magnifies errors that are really hard to see in the dry.
As an example, I was riding with a friend of mine at a NASA event at VIR in his modified RX7 a month or so ago. It was damp out and we were going very very slowly. We get to turn 4 and he gets on the power just a hair too early before the wheel was straight, and we spun at about 20 mph. It was so rediculously slow, but that experience was clear indication of his bad habit of not straightening the wheel enough before getting on the power.
His error in techinique would be much more difficult, if not impossible, to learn in the dry!
As an example, I was riding with a friend of mine at a NASA event at VIR in his modified RX7 a month or so ago. It was damp out and we were going very very slowly. We get to turn 4 and he gets on the power just a hair too early before the wheel was straight, and we spun at about 20 mph. It was so rediculously slow, but that experience was clear indication of his bad habit of not straightening the wheel enough before getting on the power.
His error in techinique would be much more difficult, if not impossible, to learn in the dry!