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I have crashed with my cart pretty bad. At some point I realized that I will go off track and looked where it will be going. I remember looking for a way out bu
by spaetzleesser 6y ago
I have crashed with my cart pretty bad. At some point I realized that I will go off track and looked where it will be going. I remember looking for a way out but then I saw the wall and took my hands off the wheel right before impact. It was over pretty quickly and most what I did was just instincts from driving. Only after the crash I put everything together consciously. I would imagine the same for Grosjean. It’s all automated responses.
- kreeben 6y agoWhy is taking your hands of the wheel such a good thing to do in a situation like this? Is it because the spin of the vehicle would be over with sooner if you let it have its way?
- leetcrew 6y agoit's to prevent injuries to your thumbs/wrists.
- piva00 6y agoIt's because the driving wheel jerk from the front wheels being forced to turn will break your thumbs and/or other fingers. You instinctively take your hands off the wheel if you have raced karts enough to get into a crash where you hurt your thumbs, that or you've trained to do it. I even do it on racing sims some times, completely out of instinct.
- o-__-o 6y agoEveryone’s talking about go karts (and older cars) but this is not the problem with modern drive by wire cars (in an emergency my car will shutdown the electronic steering module which will only give me like 10 degrees of steering, lock-to-lock). The real issue is with the airbag destroying your hands/wrists and chemical burns that come along with it.