Holy smokes, you’ve never see so many corrective steering inputs in so little linear track surface in your life! We are happy to report it ended well.
For this week’s NASA Racing Gear Store Move of the Month entry, NASA NorCal Spec E46 driver Matt Pruden, gets a bit crossed up going through Sonoma Raceway’s Turn 3A as No. 426 Gary Baker the outside line through the corner. Pruden got a bit sideways and corrected while No. 128 Matt Gottscho got by unscathed on the inside. In defiance of physics and overall odds, Pruden made several more corrective inputs and finally got the car settled down by Turn 4 and got on with his race. Those were some fast hands on that wheel.
Images courtesy of CHARLES GILL and Matt Pruden
The reason it’s tank slapping and you have to do so many corrections is because you’re over correcting. Too much steering wheel input for the amount of oversteer and it’s being held way too long before going back to center.
It would make it a lot easier if you kept your hands at the 9/3 and didn’t move them all over the wheel. Less is more when driving on track. Man you racers get into some bad habits lol.