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GHIT 0391: \xa0Car Control with Nik Romano

There are a few fundamental skills that truly separate drivers.\xa0 The top two that come to mind are car control and race craft.\xa0 Nik Romano owns FastSideways and also currently drives professionally for Toyota.\xa0 FastSideways is a driving school that specializes in holding events that offer personal coaching to focus specifically on improving your car control on skid pads and track through a sequence of drills and tests.\xa0 During the episode, we talk about a wide variety of aspects of car control and hatch a not so subtle, devious plot to hold the first ever east coast FastSideways car control event.\xa0 Our team has already reserved many spots, but please let us know if you are interested in joining Nik, his instructors, and us at the event.\xa0 We cannot wait.\xa0 Perhaps we can talk him into holding it on a local frozen lake?\xa0 Vicki is already making the hot chocolate.\xa0 This episode is an ideal follow up to our recent episode on catching a car where Vicki revealed a specific hole in her car control technique.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/FastSideways\xa0

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Highlights for this episode include:

1)\xa0 We start off with the importance on car control on you driving, your safety, and even the speed that you can drive on track.

2)\xa0 We talk about the CPR acronym and how Vicki have grown from floating through turns and moved into adding slip angle into her track driving.\xa0 Listen to the tires sing.

3)\xa0 The advantages and disadvantages of a turbo when trying to drive at the limit.

4)\xa0 The advantage of recover vs react in CPR.\xa0 This is a version of our often covered prediction vs reaction discussion, but better.

5)\xa0 How to use telemetry to assist in your car control and what to look out for.

6)\xa0 We define what is meant by car control when driving a car on a track or in a high performance condition, such as autocross or even when trying to avoid a potential accident on the street.\xa0

7)\xa0 The relationships between car speed, horsepower/torque, and wheelbase on a car\u2019s car control window and inherent ease/difficulty imposed on the driver.

8)\xa0 We get Nik\u2019s definitive answer to what is snap oversteer or lift oversteer.\xa0 Is it Bigfoot or is it Nessie?

9)\xa0 We even have a discussion of Senna vs Prost during the episode.\xa0 How about those for search words for a podcast?\xa0 Lol.

10)\xa0 Nik adds to Bill\u2019s car purchasing list.\xa0 Vicki loses her mind for a few minutes.

11)\xa0 Vicki and Nik discuss drifting, Formula Drift, GridLife, and Gymkhana.\xa0 Vicki lost her mind the first time she saw this live at GridLife and has gone down a deep YouTube hole.\xa0 We hope she comes backout soon, lol.

12)\xa0 How to adapt your driving technique to a car that is either understeering or oversteering. \xa0Note this does not involve having your friend running next to the car and making car adjustments.

13)\xa0 The effect of the type of tire on car control, especially street tires vs racing slicks. \xa0This is especially evident by the slip angle of the tire and the performance window where the tires perform best.\xa0 We also cover the impact that the tire design and manufacturer can have on this as well.

14)\xa0 The importance of car control on new and inexperienced drivers.\xa0 it can literally save their lives.

15) One of the best Thunderhill 25 stories we have ever heard.\xa0

To get more details about Nik and Fast Sideways, please follow them at:

Website:\xa0 https://www.fastsideways.com/

Instagram:\xa0 @fastsideways

Facebook:\xa0 https://www.facebook.com/fastsideways