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Originally Posted by abehwang
So how would you get out of that under steer situation? More throttle and hope to transfer/balance the weight back out?
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Just the opposite. He's understeering (the front tires have lost traction, so the car isn't turning despite his steering input). You want weight on the front to hook those tires up.
The textbook thing to do would be what we called the "line recovery technique" in racing school. You do a quick and complete lift off the throttle and then get right back into it so that the back end doesn't come around. Ideally, the front tires will hook up as the weight transitions forward and you can get back toward your line. The car will rotate a bit during all of this and that will scrub a bit of speed too.
He was going _way_ too fast though, so chances are any heroic efforts would have meant he'd go over backward instead of forward.