"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:07:54 -0700, Charles Spitzer
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"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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The _only_ situation where ABS can be beat by an expert driver is
in a slush/heavy snow situation, where you _want_ the tires to slide
so the snow gets pushed in the front of the tires as in a snowplow,
but of course you can't steer when that's happening.

when i was auto-xing, there are LOTS of times i didn't want the abs to
kick
in, mostly when i wanted the rear of the car to step out to turn the car
faster.

Isn't that what the hand-brake is for? Keep the front (driven) wheels
going
with your right foot, pull up on the handbrake, let the ass end slide
around. Works great in a Saab, I suppose if you have RWD you can do
something sort of like that with the throttle?

corvette. rwd. manual transmission. already doing heel (brake) and toe
(throttle) with the right foot. one almost never takes hands off the wheel
in autox, so ran out of limbs to do that. also, a vette handbrake is on the
left side of the passenger seat down low, and you have to apply it harder to
get it to release as it's on a ratchet of some kind. i usually can't reach
it when using a 5 point harness.

"left foot steering" is what the Saab rally drivers call it.

Dave Hinz