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Originally Posted by CivPilot
If it was the old shaped TT then maybe the car could have caught him unaware, as the chassis is pretty flawed with dead steering and very nasty lift off oversteer if you get brain fade (Driven one and you wouldnt want to push on hard, nasty feeling in corners at times) . At the end of the day even Lift off oversteer is something most reasonably skilled drivers will never see.
The new TT is meant to border on understeer first so deffo driver error/lack of talent/showing off his (lack of) skill.
At least the driver was honest... "No, just me"
And basegreen is right, sometimes "Darwin works in mysterious ways"
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I didn't want to question the guy greatly because he was feeling pretty miserable as it was (!), but I gathered that the sharp transfer to oversteer on lift-off when he met a bend that was a bit sharper than he anticipated 'got him'.
For a person that feels that the handling of a car is paramount 'cos I do most of my driving on twisty country roads (hence i-
Vtec and not +150kg of an admittedly wonderful diesel powerplant for better balance 'under pressure') I was staggered that a TT was
that vicious in its response to throttle change! I've been massively spoilt by my ex-Alfa 156 which would
not let you down under any circumstances that I have ever met - and I am an, errmm, 'enthusiastic' windy road driver!
All I can think is that he hadn't done his homework and was thus unaware of the TT's prediliction for lift-off oversteer - but I did feel sorry for him though......