> >> Many times when a car gets sideways in real life, after correcting the
> >> slide, the car will swing back the other way in a series of fish-
> >tails,
> >> or "tank-slappers". I don't believe I've ever experienced this in GPL
> >> and all of a sudden I'm wondering why?
> >What sort of wheel are you using?
> >When I used my old T2 I never had any fish-tails, but with my Wingman
> >FF i get it quite often.
> >I guess it is because the forces in the FF-wheel makes the wheel react
> >more realistic(wheel moves by itself reacting to frontwheel direction
> >etc) and therefore causing the car to fish-tail. There probably is some
> >more "physical" explanation for this, but I don't know it! :)
I seem to be doing it all the time with my MSFF. I thought it was just
because I was such a bad driver - great moment of the week was breaking 10
minutes (by 0.13 seconds) at the 'ring.
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Tony Whitley