How Much Do You Rag Your Cars

[Acehole]

Hello all, may have been asked before

Aside from the track days that lots of you do, how much hammer do you give your cars?

Do you wheel spin them, slam the brakes on late, go round corners as quick as you dare etc.

I fear I drive mine like a wuss.

Acehole

[danwebster]

I drive mine like I stole it and look after it commensurate with that.

[Elaine]

Fast, but with respect.

 

E.

[Stik]

I drive my cars fairly hard, but i wouldn't say i rag them. Maybe a couple of times a month in summer i'll go out for a drive and probably spend 50% of my time in the top quarter of the rev range for extended periods, but most of the time it's just "rapid", as in not redlining it constantly but not holding back either. More than anything it's just quite tiring (not to mention the noise!) to drive it hard all the time

 

I think i'm a bit of a wuss though, too, so maybe i'm the exception here

[M@r]{]

I never rag my cars

 

[R.I.B.]

Nice drift!!!!!

[Ian C]

LOL, great video!

[Stik]

Brilliant! If you ever take that up again i'd very much like a ride

[M@r]{]

Brilliant! If you ever take that up again i'd very much like a ride

 

I'm going to, just need an LSD fitted to the Exige

[scatty]

Apart from the odd trackday, I drive like a wuss.... The odd spirited drive out, but generally quite miss daisy ish....

 

****must try harder****

[dobbo]

I rarely rag it in 30 / 40mph zones (and I stick to those), but otherwise it depends on the road / conditions !!!!

 

I always assume that I might meet myself coming the other way, so me running wide on a left-hander and meeting myself coming the other way cutting the same corner would end up in two write-offs ! I don't want that, and nor does anyone else insuring an Elise...

 

The answer is that I drive it as fast as I reasonably can within the stopping distance I can see.

 

I've probably calmed down a little now with young family, but I still have fun where I can.

 

Tail-out, etc, on a road - never. There's not enough space to sort out even a minor wiggle over what you expected. Clutch-dump off the lights ? Sometimes :-)

[kayj_prod]

Safety first for me- I've no intention of damaging it! I know I don't get anywhere near its limit and when I think I'm pushing it, it's somewhere where I've got a decent safety margin. I have been guilty of putting too much power on pulling out of a junction a few times...

[AL.]

I drive it at a level I'm comfortable with on the road. That appears to be faster than 95% of the other cars I encounter, but I don't really rag it. I know what the car can do and I know what I can do, so I make sure I'm never near that limit on the road.

 

As Dobbo said, driving with the idea that someone coming the other way might be driving the same as you is a good indication of whether you should slow down. If visibility is good, don't lift.

 

The Elise is built for cornering and braking, if you don't feel comfortable pushing it, perhaps you should experiment on track...

[P4N Lotus]

wouldnt say rag, would never say rag.... I like to push and learn the cars limits, and my limits, each time taking slightly more calculated risk, sometimes its better to purposely loose traction just to know what the limit is and your expecting to recover without it coming up unkowingly. I have to be a bit more reserved with the Evora (im still learning), there are things I did in the Elise (throwing it into a corner or hard on the brakes causing the rear to get lift - creating a drift under breaking and fethering the throttle) which I wouldnt even dream of doing in the Evora, just carrying too much rear weight to do that for me to know how it will react. I suspect the New Exiges will have similar characteristics maybe even more so , I am sure if any of the Exige owners go for the new ExigeS they will find themselves changing the driving style. But would never rag

[jonnyfox]

Hardly ever on the road, save it for the track. Just getting older and wiser I suspect.

 

Edit, nice Mark.