RWD vs. AWD

For the record, Mark's driving, I'm codriving.

The car does really well on tight and twisty roads. (Perryville is actually a fast rally) It is Extremely easy to over-rotate with the throttle. I've only driven the car at RallyCross events and I inevitably spin it almost every run. But, the car is a dream to be in on tight roads. The Friday roads at this last year of Ojibwe were perfect.

Also, the Perryville event was not without it's "pucker" moments. The road surface at the Perryville rally is about the loosest gravel you've ever driven on. Here is video proof.

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Now John, when are you going to post the side by side of Stage 6?

Nope. I went back and watched that stage and was pretty pissed with how I drove it. Spun the car and just drove like crap. Half the corners I was timid and slow or too fast and over driving.

I later discovered a destroyed rear control arm bushing, which may have contributed to the freaky handling at times.

The car is fun in the tight twisty stages, but can be a real hand full on fast stages. The steering is 2 turns L-L, but if I ever get the car rotated far enough to take my hands off the wheel it's usually going to end in a spin.

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What can I say. I got into your head.

Spin+dust = ugh, how were you able to keep track of direction during the dust storm on spin #2? From the video, completely lost track of which way you were facing, but you were still steering it towards the correct direction.

That surface is interesting for sure, took us 4 stages to figure out how to make the car stay reasonably in control just on the straights. Felt like an air hockey puck on some of them.

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Spin+dust = ugh, how were you able to keep track of direction during the dust storm on spin #2? From the video, completely lost track of which way you were facing, but you were still steering it towards the correct direction.

I'm good. It's not that hard to keep track of which way to go.

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I'm good. It's not that hard to keep track of which way to go.

Guess when you can actually feel the rotation it's a bit easier (and probably still some amount of visibility vs the video). I can totally picture spinning while I'm staring at the book/computer and James going "are we facing the right way?" "Yeah sure, let's go" and off we go backwards.

I think you'd have to spin multiple times to get really disoriented. If in doubt, wait a minute for the next car.

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I can totally picture spinning while I'm staring at the book/computer and James going "are we facing the right way?" "Yeah sure, let's go" and off we go backwards.

I'm not that bad. ... ... ...although-

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I think you'd have to spin multiple times to get really disoriented. If in doubt, wait a minute for the next car.

I saw that very thing in some Youtube vidyo - dudes got totally discombobulated, and were like "Wait for the next guy and FOLLOW!".