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Old 06-15-2009, 04:48 PM   #48
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Exactly.. You're less likely to have something bad happen. You lose traction with either under or oversteer. But correcting understeer is something that most people could do. If you don't know what to do with oversteer, worse things could happen.

For example, if you have understeer you can usually get control back of the car by correcting your steering (turn into the skid), or slowing down a little bit.

With oversteer, if you overcorrect by say turning the wheel too far and braking you could potentially snap the rear of the car all the way back around the other way even worse than you started.

One of the things that is a little unique with oversteer with FWD is that you can correct it by accelerating if the conditions are right.
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