Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "NASCAR Fan Reacts to Frank Kelly - Fast, Sideways and Mental (Rally Legend)" video.
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I will not say I come close to such rally skills. But like my earlier RX7 experience comment, about needing time to become one with the vehicle, before really being able to totally evaluate all its features not just a short term, few days test drive and under varied conditions not just city traffic and freeways.
In my case when really settled into a new unfamiliar vehicle I firstly drive in very conservative way. But once familiar and settled into the handling and feel on various roads and surfaces did in the past push limits sometimes near edge of serious crashes. Driving my 4WD so dealing with large over 2.5 ton steel mass, to drive on winding mountain and hills roads, on bitumen squealing tyres in corners, and drifting on corrugated dirt roads, or on muddy puddle covered roads swinging round a bend at 46 degree swing, sliding that mass round the bend to straighten out after the bend. That is feel for vehicle, but admittedly crazy, lunatic practice. Yet while on dirt mountain road drifting corners was stopping on my side of approach to a bend having seen a flash of colour ahead through leaves of trees, realising on coming car. The driver of the Volvo involved, with locked up front wheels slid all the way maybe 50 meters partly through the bend, to dent my driver's door as he finally stopped. He was going, I am certain, slower than I, but lost control.
On another downhill winding road stretch, I was going at just limit of mild tyre sqeal, when my passenger, who had done some amateur rally in a Ford Cortina, with significant mods enough to get put off public roads by police, actually asked me to slow down. I was in full comfort mode having much familiarity of that stretch, even once keeping up with several motor bikes not exactly going slow, but not crazy like me.
Gets fun when a rear tyre drift off bitumen into roadside gravel. That gets tricky, and highly likely to send you off the mountain road into forest.
In Queensland on muddy dirts road but pushing hard to reach a destination as sunset was coming, doing 50 to 60 MPH ( before we changed to metric) to have the 4WD vehicle, with camping gear and water and gem digging tools on a roof rack, suddenly swing into full 720 degree spin, and straighten out to proceed as if nothing just happened, is only possible if feeling part of the vehicle. Did slow to under 50 MPH after though.
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