http://www.aliallage.com Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:02:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.aliallage.com/general-yipyap/car-control-boot-camp-at-team-o%e2%80%99neil-rally-school/ http://www.aliallage.com/general-yipyap/car-control-boot-camp-at-team-o%e2%80%99neil-rally-school/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:46:01 +0000 Ali http://www.aliallage.com/?p=1342

We’ve all seen the insanity of Ken Block’s YouTube videos where he’s blasting his car sideways through an airfield obstacle course coming to near collisions with random objects. Most can’t believe what they are seeing is real. The truth is even with great movie editing; Ken Block has amazing car control skills. As a road racer, my experience with car control has been on wet skid pads and scary situations on track, which usually ends with a mild heart attack. “Happens to everyone”, I’m told, “that’s how you learn”, but that didn’t seem right. How do you learn to fix a problem that isn’t experienced often? Being obsessed with perfecting my own driving ability, I reached out to seasoned race veterans and other weekend track warriors for the answer to my car control problem. [Read More...]]]> http://www.aliallage.com/general-yipyap/car-control-boot-camp-at-team-o%e2%80%99neil-rally-school/feed/ 2