Oversteer and Understeer on the track

This video shows an example of oversteer and an example of understeer during my rookie year of solosprints on tracks driving a Honda Insight. During the oversteer my panic caused me to correct the wheel too quickly and overcompensated by turning it too much. This resulted in a tail slapper that got out of hand until I lost speed going sideways and rolled off the track backwards slowly. The original video is higher quality and clearly shows I was during this turn at over 100 km/hr (60 mph) both times.
I was using Race compound tires.
This video was filmed in 2005.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Honda
• Insight
• solosprint
• time
• attack
• race
• track
• lapping
• Mosport
• DDT
• Ontario
• Canada
• oversteer
• understeer

[ohyeahtotally08]

Either you're sitting in the same gear the whole time or you're driving an auto on the track? Seriously?

[insightracer]

@ohyeahtotally08

In that section of track it's 2nd gear the whole way. This 5 speed manual car has very tall gears, 2nd gear goes to 115 km/hr.

[Katlunazul]

Its great to blame the tires. I would have thought that the problem was the entry speed as well as the way you use the throttle on the turns!!!!!!!!

Hey, but the tires.... Damn them all to hell!!!!

Oh, and the over correcting once, and again and again.... tires too?

[IRBucephalus]

I'm 99% positive that oversteer occurred because you lifted off right at the apex of the turn, causing all the weight to shift to the front of the car.

[Goldtacto]

the oversteer occurred because of the same thing as IRBucephalus said and the understeer simply occured because you entered at to high of speeds.

[koolman280]

That would have sucked if the airbags had went off and your arms were crossed over each other as you try and turn the wheel

[MrJdm350z]

U just completely suck at driving with ur fuel economy saver

[ClTIZEN]

Learn to drive dickhead, its not your tires fault.

[LukeD1uk]

You got oversteer because you lifted off in the turn. FWD for ya! :D

[alikhalifehm3]

0:16 roadrunner beeps, then coyote spins

[gingerleyham]

the correcting made me laugh loads!

[Chiuas666]

0:16 honk if u r drifting :D