gulf911 wrote:It seems the 944 concensus of some is, if you aren't holding the wheel steady you aren't smooth...
I rode w/ Jackie (Ms. 944-Spec) Corwin at the last autox, and she rode in my 911, and after the first practice session, she asked me why I was moving the wheel so much and so fast.
I told her it's not the steering wheel inputs that have to be smooth, it's the car's movement that counts. As long as the vehicle is smoothly carving the desired arc at a good slip angle, and transitioning weight smoothly from side to side without upsetting the grip of the tires, it doesn't really matter what the driver is doing with the steering wheel to accomplish that. Sometimes it takes quick little corrections to be smooth, with both the throttle AND the steering wheel, especially in a 911. They aren't necessarily BIG movements, amplitude-wise, but they sometimes have to be FAST.
I think my explanation was a little foriegn to her, coming from the waterpumping, 50/50, front-engine, 944 world.
TT