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Old December 7th, 2005, 02:40 PM   #41
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Really? TCS..........the boys were wrong!?!?!?!
No not really, Hammond said "you'r supposed to have traction control" prolly refering to it not beeing good enough or something like that.
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No not really, Hammond said "you'r supposed to have traction control" prolly refering to it not beeing good enough or something like that.
Or maybe the TCS is "performance oriented" or whatever and allows for some sliding. images/smilies/dunno.gif
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I still don't get it.......why not just take the car out of gear and hold it with the brakes? Then heel toe slightly to let off the and engage the clutch when he needed to move again? Why hold the car with it's clutch? Am i missing something here?
I think the clutch was smoking from the necessary use of clutch control to crawl the zonda up the steep narrow path to the exit. Given that we have spent 3 pages arguing over the brake light going on and off, I would hazard a guess that Hamster was indeed using the footbrake to hold it after he found the handbrake couldn't hold it on that slope.
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Hamster ahs his moment, shrugs it off and says, "I wasn't worried." Then he yells at the car, "Your supposed to have traction control!"

Did he drive an older version without it? They did say it was a customer car I belive.
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