....at spinning.

There was an F1 race recently where a driver went off the track backwards and ended up going into the barrier, causing damage to his car. I said to my Dad, "I would have lifted off the brakes there and steered to the right to avoid the wall". Then it hit me... a lot of us must actually know better what to do in certain 'emergency situations' (ie. when you've screwed up :P) than a lot of professional racers, just because we've spent so much time off the track and/or going backwards

Anything else you can think of that us LFS'ers have more experience with than the pros?

I'm guessing we're all better at avoiding drivers going the wrong way around the track.

Probably better at avoiding people who don't start when the lights go green. Better at avoiding people that just slam on the brakes the second they cross the line, too

tbh in a real life situation you'd probably do the exact same. In a game if I spin I don't get that o' f**k feeling that I do in a real life situation. Not sure about Formula One cars but certinally in karts it can be tough to hold onto the steering wheel when going backwards at high speed.

Can't think of what accident your talking about off the top of my head either, which race was it?

Quote from Michael Denham :

....at spinning.

There was an F1 race recently where a driver went off the track backwards and ended up going into the barrier, causing damage to his car. I said to my Dad, "I would have lifted off the brakes there and steered to the right to avoid the wall". Then it hit me... a lot of us must actually know better what to do in certain 'emergency situations' (ie. when you've screwed up :P) than a lot of professional racers, just because we've spent so much time off the track and/or going backwards

Anything else you can think of that us LFS'ers have more experience with than the pros?

LFSers are better at typing while driving. They're probably better at driving slightly p1553d too.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

LFSers are better at typing while driving. They're probably better at driving slightly p1553d too.

I'm gonna try that one on the officer next time...

funny thread

Im only 14 year old, but i love to drive a car and past Saturday i went driving with my dad, so i drove with 80 KM/H at forest, quite cool and then i turned onto the highway and drove there for like 100 meters to another private road

Tbh, i want to get on some race track where i can see my real skills, eh.

Quote from 96 GTS :

I'm guessing we're all better at avoiding drivers going the wrong way around the track.

Probably better at avoiding people who don't start when the lights go green. Better at avoiding people that just slam on the brakes the second they cross the line, too