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What I learned a long time ago learning to drive open wheel Formula Fords.

A tire can do 3 three things, steer, brake and accelerate and it can never due any one of these things at 100 percent all at the same time.

If you have an area ( empty parking lot) and about a half dozen cones, place them in a straight line about two car lengths apart. Drive through the cones in and out in a sweeping pattern to get the feel. Now that you know the rhythm, as you go through each cone increase your speed at every entrance until you get to the last cone entrance and lift completely off of the gas.

If you've pushed hard enough the result  will be something you will never do again...Never Lift. The result is that the car was in balance sharing acceleration and steering and once you lift and set acceleration to zero you are now steering 100 percent. This is exacerbated on a swing axle car but controllable once you experience that transfer of motion from rear to front.

My two cents and points for not bringing up _earing.

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