<VV> Re: EM handling

Dennis Nichols dixiehwy25@yahoo.com
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:44:29 -0800 (PST)


Yeah, but Moss had those nifty little coil spring camber compansators, low pivot swing axles........ and a 300SLR!
 
But you're right, putting on the power in a lot of situations is better than backing off.

djtcz@comcast.net wrote:
A camber compensator helps a ton.

Stirling Moss said that to make the swing axle Mercedes handle he learned to accelerate whenever the back end started to misbehave. I think he said an MD engineer told him to try it.
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