smart car racing on dry skid pad, 0.798 G's 451 smart fortwo

[otoakki]

did he just its a respectable time? O_O i thought this video is measuring Gs

[otoakki]

Excuse me people, but aside from visuals, does that smart car have modded suspensions or is that stock?

[Smart4two]

The 451 with esp has 0.74g on skidpad

[StigTube06]

What a fucking shit video

[bigwrenchracing]

Too bad there is not a video credit here. The outside the car video was shot by my husband, the co-driver, Doug McCabe. I think he did a great job!

[mrbadx19]

Doug is a trooper, signing on in the last minute, it was a week long event. Stephen's original co-driver dropped out at the last minute.

Doug is a nice guy, i met him and chatted with him for a few minutes during the event.

[smart424me]

Most excellent, Steve!

[Smart4two]

Was it difficult to turn the esp off? A dutch tuner tried it, but they couldn't make it to be switched off.

[mrbadx19]

you pull fuse 11 to kill ESP, it's really easy to do. i think it kills the ABS function as well. i've never needed a computer to help me drive in the last 30 years. the ESP is nice in deep snow, keeps you from digging yourself into a hole, otherwise, to me, it's useless!

[Smart4two]

Hi, there is also another solution, that my smart centre told me in the meanwhile!

Turn the key but don't start the car. Now press both buttons on the speedo for a few seconds. The ! sign will blink. Than ESP is switched off. When you putt the car off, it will go back to normal, so you have to do this every time.

[mrbadx19]

cool, i'll try that, should be fun in the winter to do "donuts".

[Smart4two]

But it hasn't oversteer right, so quite safe.

[Smart4two]

Did you adjust the esp?

[Smart451com]

Yes we did, it was turned off for all our racing events.