{"id":980,"date":"2014-02-16T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=980"},"modified":"2014-02-17T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T22:19:08","slug":"lessons-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Learned?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some years ago my daughter Kate shouted me a \u201dBMW Driving Experience\u201d this involved hooning around Phillip Island race circuit in BMW\u2019s finest under the instruction of a race driver. \u00a0One of the lessons involved an M3 with the traction control off, lots of water and a skid pan. \u00a0We had to pootle along, turn hard right and boot it, then recover. \u00a0Our instructor Geoff Brabham told us the only<\/strong> way to recover was to immediately back off then gradually feed in the power\u2026\u2026 no one listened, everyone thought more power not less would do the trick, we were all wrong and after many tries most of us got it.<\/p>\n

This brings me to the wonderful run up to Mt Baw Baw for Lunch today with the local car club. The weather was a bit damp so on entering a tight right hander I did exactly the opposite to what Mr Brabham taught me, I ended up pirouetting down the road then going backwards off it. \u00a0Luckily no damage was done, the Lotus only weighs 720Kg and there were many club members on hand to restore the car to the tarmac, these fellows \u00a0were not going to let me forget this so I thought I had better fess up and get it over with. \u00a0Have I now learned that lesson? \u00a0Lets hope so.<\/p>\n

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