Car Control-How is it taught?

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Darren wrote:

I think the issue is these things at some level are very hard to explain and understand without the experience to just know and feel them. The above is certainly not how I deal with oversteer in my Integra, I mash the gas pedal in an oversteering slide. I mash it and hold on!

You make an excellent point and that's a great example of what I am talking about. I happened to be speaking of a typical situation in my fathers car an FE/RWD car and was wrongfully generalizing. Certainly how a driver deals with sliding can be and in the case of Darren's example is very vehicle specific. I think you just "know" the limits of your car and how you deal with certain circumstances. The "very hard to explain" part is key. I couldn't teach you, meaning you Darren, to drive the way you do. I couldn't teach you the exceptional level of feel you have. You just have it and have learned it on your own.