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It's a handful at speed - Tony Griffiths - 24-04-2022
Not easy....but fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYZ2OlE97Ow
RE: Its a handful at speed - Bob Culver - 25-04-2022
A real Seven would be more exciting, esp the skid corrections. Need reactions far faster than shown, even at 30 mph.
RE: Its a handful at speed - Steve kay - 25-04-2022
Damn, that’s us now found out. Yes, the YouTube of the Chummy doing 36 mph down the finishing straight at Curborough was also a wild computer confection.
RE: It's a handful at speed - Stuart Giles - 25-04-2022
Well, I've never seen a Chummy windscreen wiper sweep that fast across the windscreen....
RE: It's a handful at speed - Mike Costigan - 25-04-2022
My vacuum wiper is quicker than that on the over-run.
RE: It's a handful at speed - Duncan Grimmond - 25-04-2022
What kind of tyres are those? They don't seem to leave any trace so they must be hovercraft issue...
RE: It's a handful at speed - Charles P - 25-04-2022
(25-04-2022, 06:05 PM)Duncan Grimmond Wrote: What kind of tyres are those? They don't seem to leave any trace so they must be hovercraft issue...
Must be special. They squeal on snow
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RE: It's a handful at speed - Bob Culver - 26-04-2022
A standard saloon on a corrugated metal road with drifts of thicker shingle and stock shock absorbers would be more challenging.
The whiplash oversteer would have tested Stirling or whoever is a top driver now.
(Decades ago the Local Road Code used to advise how to steer into a skid, then all rear wheel. Around 1950 we used to go to a local beach 20 miles out and all corrugated shingle. My dad pondered the Road Code then commented that he had been doing that almost continuously for years, there and back!)