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What the Tires are Doing When you’re Driving

The largest tire shows where the maximum tire contact, and load, is.

Do only 1 thing at a time :
brake, corner, or accelerate

Examples:

– when coming into a turn, complete all braking before initiating the turn. Then it’s off the brakes and start to turn the wheel

– yes you accelerate out of a turn, but only after the majority of the turn is complete, and the steering wheel is unwound to almost straight

From when I attended the Audi sportscar experience.

Blog tag = 2017 Audi R8

 

 

Use my Tricks to Conquer Road Rage

I rarely get worked up while behind the wheel, here’s how and why.

Try my 6 tricks for overcoming road rage:

  1. apply these 2 types of logic,
  2. car dancing,
  3. talking on the phone,
  4. people watching,
  5. my last trick is the best one.

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

The last trick is my most devious one – I pretend I’m a puppet master.

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Sharing some Driving Tricks, Part 2

From how keyless entry fobs contain a key, to hiding the pink slip and never programming the navigation with your actual address under “home” (a thief then knows where it is, and where you’re not.)

Thanks this week to contributors Paul and Brian!

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

Use the passenger seat heater to keep your takeout warm. Prop the pizza box up on a can, now the box will sit flat on a seat that is not.

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Sharing some Driving Tricks, Part 1 – here

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Tracking a Porsche with Pfaff

Pfaff Automotive invited me to Mosport for a track day… in one of their day-lease Porsches.  Yes please!

It was my 2nd track time ever, bit spoiled huh, because here I go around in a Porsche Cayman.

Learned how executing a proper corner feels…. effortless?! Huh.

And did you know you can steer the car using only the throttle?  I did that once… accidentally.

That’s Brad Meise of Apex Driver Training you hear coaching me; thanks Brad! Liked your style: precise and non-stop.

My mistakes: I brake way too late, and enter the corners with too much aggression :|

That’s the thing though: so what I can fly around with a Brad in the passenger seat.

How about when it’s just me, and there’s no cones around the track to guide me, now add the pressure of competing in a race…

You can do this too.

Day-lease a Porsche or Audi from Pfaff and spend the day driving the above track, with coaching if you’d like it.

All information found here: Pfaff Track Days

A Porsche 911 is $1,699 +HST for the day rental at the track, and the other vehicles available are the Porsche Cayman, the Audi TTS and Audi S5.

Or track your own car.

That’s $449.00+HST for the DDT Track this 2014 season with the use of your own vehicle. Because the goal is not to learn how to go faster, but to better understand the physics behind driving.

And that’s what I wrote about for that week’s ‘Keri on Driving’ column.

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

It’s best to explore the limits of your car in a contained environment instead of a real life situation. This way, when your car gets away from you and starts to drift down an icy on-ramp, for instance, it’s not the first time you’re experiencing how that feels.

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Driving in this Never-Ending Winter

Tires, braking, snow plows and sensors – tips for driving during this year’s never-ending winter. Check the sensors!

Read it online at Autonet.ca.

Favourite line:

When was the last time checked any of the sensors before climbing behind the wheel and relying on them? 

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