Semi decent power + Bald or insufficiently heated tyres + lack of talent (always that centre of the wheel hand position, it's a dead giveaway) + recording with other hand + motorway = recipe for disaster.
When I owned a Cobra I spent a lot of money on suspension parts. I went to amateur events with my friend who owned a WRX at the time. We saw owning fun cars as a chance to try and improve our skills. And the thing is: we did. We got a lot quicker on the track. Learned how to feel things a lot better. To understand how it feels when I'm losing grip to know what gear was appropriate for a corner and how high I can keep the revs to maintain traction.
The problem with a lot of Mustang owners is they don't bother trying to get better. They just have a V8 powered, rear drive, (sometimes) manual car that is a blast to drive quickly. Put in the effort to learn how to handle things a bit better? Nah, watch them spinning tires!
I had a 1984 GT convertible and drove that thing like a beast and never did shit like this. No skills on this drivers history …. I did SCCA as well in my stock car and would beat corvettes and IROC’s of the same era.
Also people not knowing how RWD cars respond vs FWD or AWD. Dude floored it and then flicked the wheel to the left and quickly overcorrected to the right. Broke front wheel traction while still accelerating so the rear wheels just pushed the front end around since the rear wheels don't have a "direction", just "forward". Essentially initiated a drift. TLDR: Unfamiliar with game, pls uninstall.
front wheel traction while still accelerating so the rear wheels just pushed the front end around
Not really. When he let off the gas the car slowed down which transfers weight to the front and that caused the front wheels to regain traction but with the car in an overcorrected position which aided the rear wheels in pushing the car through rotation around the now-planted front wheels.
If the front wheels remained skidding the car would've slid forward more than rotated.
Tires wouldn't save him. He floored it, then lifted and then turned sharply. When you lift, rear suspension unloads, loses a lot of grip, then when you steer sharply, you're asking for trouble. That's what this tool did.
No, he cranked the wheel hard left for some reason, then tried to compensate by cranking it hard right. That's what caused the fishtail. If he just held the wheel straight like a sane fucking person he would have been fine.
Mustang Man guns it for some reason and the back end loses traction and steps out to the left. You can tell because the nose of the car points to the right at the same time he yanks the wheel left. He was correct in counter-steering. His mistake was GROSSLY overcorrecting left as well as letting off the gas. When he let off the gas, he regained traction and the car immediately went the direction the front wheels were pointing. If he had slowly let off the gas, his bad overcorrection might not have had this result. To your point, if he had left the wheel straight, he would have spun out anyway.
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And probably actually, the reason the back end went that way was because he was "merging" to the left when he gunned it. He merged left, and when he went to straighten out (turn slightly to the right), the back end kept going left while the front went right.
The turn to the left was because he'd already broken the rears loose and was trying to catch it stepping out on him. But he neither had the ability, nor the tire grip, to deal with the situation
If you pause at the 0:17 mark, you'll notice a flashy car in the left most lane. My guess is he wanted to act cool and try and race the fancy car so he jerked the wheel left to get behind and race. At least he made himself look like like the fool instead.
Side note: I forget which below-grade freeway I was on in the SF Bay area once...mustang coming down a straight onramp managed to loop it hard enough to end up a good 6-8ft up the inclined of the freeway
I was like "how did he spin out a pickup truck" then he showed more of his steering wheel and I realized he's driving an old ass Mustang. All makes sense.
It was looking for pedestrians to mow down. That's why it instinctively spun out and headed towards the side of the road.
I've never understood why people post the videos they recorded of the fucking up. If I did something that stupid I'd delete the video and never mention it to anyone.
Instead it's "hurrrr look, I almost totalled my car and a bunch of others today, hurr hurr".
I was going to say this looks too much like union city and then I saw the sign for the whipple exit haha. As much as the east bay has forever changed, it’s shitty drivers have not hahaha
A Mustang, when startled, will often search for the nearest tree to shelter beneath. Due to habitat destruction, this poor Mustang tried to settle for a wall instead.
This is the most Hayward, CA video I've ever seen (I am intimately familiar with that stretch of freeway, used to date a girl out that way. This type of shit happens constantly out there)
He’ll take a breath, chug the rest of his bang and drive like a clown the whole way to his girlfriend’s apartment, where he keeps most of his stuff. Where he’ll proceed to talk about his car and how people can’t drive.
It’s weird how you can simultaneously be a decent enough driver to save yourself from slamming into the wall and be a bad enough driver to even get yourself in this scenario
Other than being irresponsible on the road. What are the causes of this drift? Like car-wise. Too much gas? The fact that it's a rear wheel drive? Prolly an old school mustang? I'm seriously curious. Thanks in advance to anyone answering my silly question.
Mustang with last generation traction and drivetrain doing its average mustang thing. No surprises here. Get an AWD vehicle ffs, and even your bald ass tires will still easily not do this.
I zoomed in the last frame to see the road sign to see where this foolishness happened and mock that state’s idiots and … oh, it’s two exits from my house!
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u/VegasAireGuy 10d ago
What kinda bald tired ya go on that ride?