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<blockquote data-quote="SeikenFreak" data-source="post: 13742049" data-attributes="member: 122263"><p>I am one of those people I guess :lol1: :bash:</p><p></p><p>Spring 2012 I went to my second HPDE, first time with my Mach and man was it raining. I took the car out for one session maybe? It was cold, raining and all my stuff was getting soaked. I was on "Max Performance Summer" whatever Sumitomo's that comes with all the aftermarket wheels. Window open and rain coming in on everything. First time on this specific course (NJMP Lightning), which I was already nervous about anyway. My friends came along to hang out and observe so now they are just standing around in the cold windy rain.</p><p></p><p>Driving around the course at like 20 MPH and constantly terrified of crashing it was super bumming me out. My first event was in my STI and my instructor said I did great and I had a ton of fun. Dry weather, different course (NJMP Thunderbolt), and <em>The Beauty of All-Wheel Drive</em>.</p><p></p><p>I feel horrible saying that I didn't like it because of exactly what you mentioned. All the NASA people there were like "ahhh its fiiine.. great opportunity to learn to drive in the wet" and I'm like sure yea, completely understand. But I just wasn't ready for this. I absolutely went down there with the intention of getting comfortable with RWD, but not to this extreme degree. I had a hard time apparently on this one corner where the instructor kept telling me (in a strong kinda frustrated sounding instructional voice no less lol) to "let the wheel out let the wheel out" because he insisted I was ploughing the front end out of this very low speed turn and I just couldn't feel it. From everything I could see and feel in the car, if I let the wheel out I would have driven straight off the course. But obviously he knows what he's doing. I just physically couldn't bring myself to do it so he was kinda grabbing the wheel and steering it a bit. And then coming up through the sweeping crested first turn the rear broke loose for a second. Was like driving on ice.</p><p></p><p>But I just felt really crappy about the day and decided to leave. Thanked my instructor for his time on my way out. Haven't been able to get back to the track since. It was miserable and hundreds of dollars down the drain (dur hur) IMO. Feel like I want at least one dry weather day in the RWD car before attempting rain, even though that is probably backwards. Still dying to get back out there though.</p><p></p><p>I've actually got the sessions on video with horrible windy audio but never put on my YouTube channel. The last STI session is on there though with the engine going.</p><p></p><p>Sorry wall of text.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeikenFreak, post: 13742049, member: 122263"] I am one of those people I guess :lol1: :bash: Spring 2012 I went to my second HPDE, first time with my Mach and man was it raining. I took the car out for one session maybe? It was cold, raining and all my stuff was getting soaked. I was on "Max Performance Summer" whatever Sumitomo's that comes with all the aftermarket wheels. Window open and rain coming in on everything. First time on this specific course (NJMP Lightning), which I was already nervous about anyway. My friends came along to hang out and observe so now they are just standing around in the cold windy rain. Driving around the course at like 20 MPH and constantly terrified of crashing it was super bumming me out. My first event was in my STI and my instructor said I did great and I had a ton of fun. Dry weather, different course (NJMP Thunderbolt), and [I]The Beauty of All-Wheel Drive[/I]. I feel horrible saying that I didn't like it because of exactly what you mentioned. All the NASA people there were like "ahhh its fiiine.. great opportunity to learn to drive in the wet" and I'm like sure yea, completely understand. But I just wasn't ready for this. I absolutely went down there with the intention of getting comfortable with RWD, but not to this extreme degree. I had a hard time apparently on this one corner where the instructor kept telling me (in a strong kinda frustrated sounding instructional voice no less lol) to "let the wheel out let the wheel out" because he insisted I was ploughing the front end out of this very low speed turn and I just couldn't feel it. From everything I could see and feel in the car, if I let the wheel out I would have driven straight off the course. But obviously he knows what he's doing. I just physically couldn't bring myself to do it so he was kinda grabbing the wheel and steering it a bit. And then coming up through the sweeping crested first turn the rear broke loose for a second. Was like driving on ice. But I just felt really crappy about the day and decided to leave. Thanked my instructor for his time on my way out. Haven't been able to get back to the track since. It was miserable and hundreds of dollars down the drain (dur hur) IMO. Feel like I want at least one dry weather day in the RWD car before attempting rain, even though that is probably backwards. Still dying to get back out there though. I've actually got the sessions on video with horrible windy audio but never put on my YouTube channel. The last STI session is on there though with the engine going. Sorry wall of text. [/QUOTE]
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