Driving Tips Archive

Extreme Driving: Cornering Lines

Taking a car around a corner is more than just turning the steering wheel, especially in competition driving. When throwing a car around a curve at breakneck speeds, the line taken when entering and exiting the turn makes a lot of difference. Continue reading »

Extreme Driving: Front-Wheel Drive Oversteer

It is generally perceived that front-wheel-drive cars – that is, cars in which the front wheels do both, put power to the road and steer – are understeering wrecks that fly off the road if you go into a corner too quickly. This is generally true, but it is possible to eliminate understeer and actually oversteer to a certain degree. Oversteering fun is not just the domain of rear-wheel-drivers. Continue reading »

Extreme Driving: Left-Foot Braking

Left-foot braking is primarily used in front-wheel-drive cars and comes in handy during cornering at high speeds. Continue reading »

Extreme Driving: Drag Racing Launch Techniques

Drag racing is best described as a tournament consisting of a two-car straight-line race. It is an all-out acceleration contest from a standing start between two vehicles over an exact distance. Professional drag strips are available for public use all over the world, but the illegal street racing culture has popularized drag racing nowadays in such a way that most common folks think of drag racing as a bunch of sticker-clad street cars causing mayhem at night. Well, whatever gets you going, it is a fact that the launch becomes the deciding factor in any drag race where the machinery is equal. Continue reading »

Extreme Driving: Drag Racing Basics

Drag racing is all about wringing the maximum acceleration out of the car. Basically a proper drag race tournament consists of a series of two-car eliminations in an all-out acceleration contest from a standing start between two vehicles over an exact distance at a special drag racing track. Continue reading »