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It's a handful at speed

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It's a handful at speed
Tony Griffiths Offline
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#1
24-04-2022, 11:38 PM (This post was last modified: 25-04-2022, 10:47 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
Not easy....but fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYZ2OlE97Ow
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#2
25-04-2022, 03:18 AM
A real Seven would be more exciting, esp the skid corrections. Need reactions far faster than shown, even at 30 mph.
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25-04-2022, 07:18 AM
Damn, that’s us now found out. Yes, the YouTube of the Chummy doing 36 mph down the finishing straight at Curborough was also a wild computer confection.
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#4
25-04-2022, 02:54 PM
Well, I've never seen a Chummy windscreen wiper sweep that fast across the windscreen....
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#5
25-04-2022, 03:33 PM
My vacuum wiper is quicker than that on the over-run.
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#6
25-04-2022, 06:05 PM
What kind of tyres are those? They don't seem to leave any trace so they must be hovercraft issue...
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25-04-2022, 10:53 PM
(25-04-2022, 06:05 PM)Duncan Grimmond Wrote: What kind of tyres are those? They don't seem to leave any trace so they must be hovercraft issue...

Must be special. They squeal on snow

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Bob Culver Offline
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26-04-2022, 06:20 AM
A standard saloon on a corrugated metal road with drifts of thicker shingle and stock shock absorbers would be more challenging. 
The whiplash oversteer would have tested Stirling or whoever is a top driver now.
(Decades ago the Local Road Code used to advise how to steer into a skid, then all rear wheel. Around 1950 we used to go to a local beach 20 miles out and all corrugated shingle. My dad pondered the Road Code then commented that he had been doing  that almost continuously for years, there and back!)
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