Being winter, we're hearing a lot of "I ain't doing a track day when it's wet, blah, blah, blah". Well, I'd just like to comment on the value of learning car control on a wet track. I just drove my first really wet track at Laguna Seca last month. I felt the car a lot more than in the dry, and while it was not over the top on the fun scale, it was a unique and valuable learning time. Ironically, for the attentive student, the safety factor actually goes up as the grip and speed go down. In the wet, you're at the grip limit all the time and, being a little scared, far more senstive to when the tires will break loose. And when they do, it's more like slow motion compared to a dry track. Therefore, the walls are "farther away", relatively speaking, when the speeds are dramatically slower.
Here's a post from an instructor on another forum about the (ever daunting) Sears Point: "The wet day was the single most productive track I had out of my 62 track days in 2002."
That about says it all.
Ted
Here's a post from an instructor on another forum about the (ever daunting) Sears Point: "The wet day was the single most productive track I had out of my 62 track days in 2002."
That about says it all.
Ted
