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Dear Stirling Moss Jr/Lewis Hamilton's cousin/Dale Earnhardt's step-nephew,
I get it. You've got an econobox with delusions of grandeur thanks to eBay and some knock-off M/R/AMG/turbo badges, and you've watched every episode of Top Gear as if it really was the factual show it claims to be/6 seasons of Nascar/all the Fast & Furious movies. In short, you think your car should be driven hard, and you think you know just how to do that.
The problem (as far as you're concerned) is that you're on urban streets built to follow centuries-old donkey tracks, rather than the closed-to-the-public wide flat US 10-lane interstates your heroes get to use. This means that you're unlikely to get your speed into double digits, let alone fast enough to use the handbrake around every turn.
The problem (as far as I'm concerned) is that you're making up for this by trying to follow the "racing line," going far over to one side before turning the other way - which wouldn't be so much of an issue if you weren't blocking other lanes in the process.
Here's the thing: you will never need to do a Scandinavian Flick in city traffic. If you're turning across approaching traffic, the road's already plenty wide enough for you to make the turn at normal speeds & be straightened up on entry to the other road without you positioning the nearside of your vehicle halfway across my Ahead Only lane. This goes double if you've had to stop to wait for a gap in traffic in order to make the turn.
Yours about to scrape all the paint off one side of your car,
RU
I get it. You've got an econobox with delusions of grandeur thanks to eBay and some knock-off M/R/AMG/turbo badges, and you've watched every episode of Top Gear as if it really was the factual show it claims to be/6 seasons of Nascar/all the Fast & Furious movies. In short, you think your car should be driven hard, and you think you know just how to do that.
The problem (as far as you're concerned) is that you're on urban streets built to follow centuries-old donkey tracks, rather than the closed-to-the-public wide flat US 10-lane interstates your heroes get to use. This means that you're unlikely to get your speed into double digits, let alone fast enough to use the handbrake around every turn.
The problem (as far as I'm concerned) is that you're making up for this by trying to follow the "racing line," going far over to one side before turning the other way - which wouldn't be so much of an issue if you weren't blocking other lanes in the process.
Here's the thing: you will never need to do a Scandinavian Flick in city traffic. If you're turning across approaching traffic, the road's already plenty wide enough for you to make the turn at normal speeds & be straightened up on entry to the other road without you positioning the nearside of your vehicle halfway across my Ahead Only lane. This goes double if you've had to stop to wait for a gap in traffic in order to make the turn.
Yours about to scrape all the paint off one side of your car,
RU
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