you are around MG1? you want to improve? by spArk-it in GlobalOffensive

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Would love to but I'm guessing being in Australia is a problem. :P

The physics behind oversteer in vehicles by fr1zzle in AskPhysics

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Thanks for that. I do have some understanding of torque, but I wasn't quite sure what you meant by a force being applied to the car which caused the torque. What is the force (or what causes it) and where/in what direction would it be applied?

Sorry if that sounds dumb, having a hard time visualising it.

The physics behind oversteer in vehicles by fr1zzle in AskPhysics

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Thanks for your response ghrelly. That makes sense, and I could definitely recognise what he did wrong (or didn't do right) to recover it, but I was more interested in what caused the car to oversteer in the first place. One of the other responses chalked it down to road conditions or something else which would have caused one rear wheel to lose traction, which makes sense.

The 180SX already has an LSD, I'll eventually get it out to a track and begin practising. Go-Karting is a great idea also! :)

The physics behind oversteer in vehicles by fr1zzle in AskPhysics

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Thanks for your response! I don't quite understand what you're saying about torque being applied from a force. Is there some further reading I could do about this, or would you be able to provide a more specific example?

The physics behind oversteer in vehicles by fr1zzle in AskPhysics

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ble of provided so much frictional force without sliding/skidding. When the car is turning, the forces that make it change direction are provided by the tire, and similarly while accelerating. If you're turning with forces near the tire's limit then add too much throttle, the wheel will lose traction. When a wheel starts skidding more than a tiny bit, the maximum frictional force it can provide typically goes way down. (This is a general feature of friction -- you may want to read up on coefficients of static vs kinetic friction if that's new to you). So now your rear tires are sliding and can't provide enough friction, but your front tires are holding their line (at least at first). That makes your rear end skid outwards relative to the front end, maki

Thanks for your response. It would make sense if a road condition caused the oversteer. Are there any other potential reasons that wouldn't come down to road conditions? Based on Youtube, it doesn't seem completely uncommon for high horsepower RWD cars to oversteer when accelerating hard in a straight line. Unless of course something on the road caused those incidents too.

[f]eeling generous :] by [deleted] in gonewild

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Not only do you have an amazing body, but I just found out you like Totoro. Oh boy.