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Originally Posted by Eric SS
While I agree with you, this is the type of thinking that can get a novice into trouble on the track. Don't rely on the car to do things for you. Nannies might keep you from spinning if you come out of a corner and get on the throttle to quickly but nothing will save you if you go into a corner to hot and the car just won't turn quickly enough to keep you on the track. An off at 45mph is a lot more controllable than an off at 75mph. And if you are at a track with little runoff, it doesn't take much to crunch your car.
You don't have to watch this whole video (or any of it lol) but this is a track day I took my SS Sedan to in November and you can see just how narrow it is and we were hitting 130mph+ at the end of the straight in the higher horsepower cars. You have to start to brake A LOT earlier than you think you do at that speed. Very little runoff on this track in numerous areas and very close concrete walls. I would not recommend learning in a fast car at this track. If you overcook a turn you're going to hit a wall. You can see at 1:17 I get pretty loose (I drive with the nannies off. It took 4 corners to get back into my rhythm. Pretty ugly. LOL) and If it couldn't have been caught I would have hit the barriers. That was a 60mph turn in my car.
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That's a great point as well. The track you learn on is really important. i have not gone off track or spun in the ZL1 although I have had the tail get away from me at some point of almost every track day. The tracks I run at are mostly open field if you run off besides one section of each track that has a nice wall for you to run into. High horsepower plus tight track with no runoff is probably a bad idea.