[USA] Slip 'n' slide on the exit ramp

This has nothing do to with which wheels are driven. If anything FWD is beneficial here. The suspension setup of Corollas is also heavily understeer biased.

One of two things happened.

  1. you touched the brakes and ruined any chance of recovery by further lightening the rear

  2. you didn't countersteer far enough to the left on the second break of traction

If this happens again in the future, first of all, if there's space, straighten the wheel and brake hard prior to initiating turn in. This was a decreasing radius turn so it was only going to be increasingly difficult to maintain traction as you cruised at a constant speed.

If you're already far enough into the turn that it's too late to brake in a straight line, keep the front wheels aimed exactly where you want to go no matter what the ass end does. This can in some cases mean absolutely frantic back and forth steering inputs.

During the steering inputs you want to either be very lightly on the throttle or coasting. As the car swings back and forth think about the rotation separately from the forward motion. The objective is to stop the rotation. Any brake input in a sense, locks in or increases that rotational speed by transferring weight to the front and lightening the rear, while reducing the forward motion. So the only time you would want to brake while sliding would be if you know with absolute certainty that you are going to crash, and you want to scrub some speed prior to impact.

I have a bunch of slide recovery videos relating to this that I might post some day. But I fear criticism due to the circumstances that lead to traction loss in... almost all of them.

Hopefully people don't listen to any of this so we still have good roadcam content.

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