I had a very scary moment this week in the Beast. I've been experimenting more recently with DSC off, Sport on driving and it bit me hard.
I was doing my regular journey to work and the last couple of miles consists of a long slip road from the motorway and then a roundabout which curves into a nice 3 lane straight. I have been playing with gentle drifting from the roundabout onto the straight with some success.
I was being pursued by one of my work colleagues on Tuesday and I got a little over enthusiastic on my exit from the roundabout. This resulted in a much harsher angle of drift as I exited the roundabout and as I got to a particularly damp stretch of road I felt the back properly let go. My instinctive reaction was to lift off but I wasn't so quick to wind off the lock. I knew what was coming next and I wasn't disappointed.
She snapped violently back in the other direction and I was then a total passenger in a 720 degree spin.
The road was empty and despite using all 3 lanes thankfully nobody was hurt and the only damage was done to my pride and underwear.
As my colleague put later "I ran out of talent"!
I couldn't agree more and it was a salutary lesson to me to treat the old girl with a little more respect in future. I was very lucky indeed to escape unscathed and I don't intend to repeat the experience any time soon.
When I got to work I had to have a half hour sit down in a quiet room before I was up to directing planes round the sky!
I was doing my regular journey to work and the last couple of miles consists of a long slip road from the motorway and then a roundabout which curves into a nice 3 lane straight. I have been playing with gentle drifting from the roundabout onto the straight with some success.
I was being pursued by one of my work colleagues on Tuesday and I got a little over enthusiastic on my exit from the roundabout. This resulted in a much harsher angle of drift as I exited the roundabout and as I got to a particularly damp stretch of road I felt the back properly let go. My instinctive reaction was to lift off but I wasn't so quick to wind off the lock. I knew what was coming next and I wasn't disappointed.
She snapped violently back in the other direction and I was then a total passenger in a 720 degree spin.
The road was empty and despite using all 3 lanes thankfully nobody was hurt and the only damage was done to my pride and underwear.
As my colleague put later "I ran out of talent"!
I couldn't agree more and it was a salutary lesson to me to treat the old girl with a little more respect in future. I was very lucky indeed to escape unscathed and I don't intend to repeat the experience any time soon.
When I got to work I had to have a half hour sit down in a quiet room before I was up to directing planes round the sky!