Snap Oversteer & How You Can Use it To Go Faster...

Snap or Lift-Off oversteer is a terrifying thing your car does when you go into a corner way too fast and, believe it or not, lift off the throttle – or hit the brake pedal. Both of these actions have the same effect. This causes the weight of the car to suddenly be thrown towards the front axle. And the rear tyres are lifted off the tarmac slightly, meaning they have less traction. The result, is oversteer, and a lot of it. Especially in mid engined cars, like the mister 2, in which the center of mass is already set more rearwards

The easiest way to prevent snap oversteer is of course, to simply drive the car properly. Any half decent driver will tell you that smooth is fast. You almost want to coax the car into doing things, rather than forcing it to. So, instead of going into a corner way too fast, violently braking and letting off the throttle as quickly as possible. Instead, brake in a straight line, turn in, and smoothly let off the throttle.

But of course, this probably isn’t the fastest way around every track.Sometimes, especially on the corners where snap oversteer is prevalent, it pays dividends to stay on the throttle. And this is what we call blending. The act of modulating the throttle through a corner. Not only does this make us faster through the turn, but it also keeps the weight of the car balanced between all four tyres – which if done smoothly and correctly, should totally negate snap oversteer. A fine balancing act between throttle and brake. You’ll need to use or blend all the throttle or brake to perfectly manipulate the weight of the car. If you go too hard or let off too quickly on either, the car will lose traction. Again, you need to be gentle and smooth with your inputs and stay on the throttle, even just a little bit to keep the car balanced whislt turning.

Now we’ve discovered exactly what snap oversteer is, and how to prevent it. Let’s see how we can use it to our advantage. Like all great driving techniques, the one I’m going to be covering today was birthed in rally. Steering isn’t as effective on gravel than it is on tarmac. The loose surface makes it incredibly hard for wheels to redirect the car without inducing massive understeer.
So, what did rally drivers do to combat this? Well, they started steering the cars using the pedals. I mean sure, they still turn the steering wheel, but again, that steering action is just to coax the car into the turn, whilst the bulk of the redirection is done with the throttle and brake.
These drivers would intentionally induce snap or lift off oversteer in order to rotate their car around a turn, or to correct understeer. They would then get back on the throttle, to shift the weight to the rear tyres and straighten the car up, or continue in a powerslide around the corner.
We can use these same techniques on tarmac, although we have a lot less leeway with the limits of grip on the grey stuff. Let me show you how it’s done.
Take this corner for instance. It’s seemingly a corner that requires constant throttle. However, depending on how the car, or if we’re going particularly fast, the car may indeed start to understeer, making us wash out wide, and once again get beached in the gravel.*show understeer*
But with using the technique im about to show you, we can actually totally negate the understeer, and carry on at nearly full momentum.
So, what can we do? Well, for not much time lost, we can quickly, but carefully, let off the throttle.
This will shift the weight to the front tyres, and stop the understeer, whilst rotating the rear of the car around the turn. Then, all you have to do is get back on the throttle. The rear tyres will speed back up to match the speed of the car, and you can accelerate away.

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[josephdabunny]

as someone who has never played this before or ever planned to, this information will be very useful, have a great day.

[ikt]

Lift-off oversteer also works for FWD cars. It's also great to get your FWD car sideways - or more helpfully, to get a bit of rotation. Basically initiate some rotation into the corner and then nail the throttle to cancel it and accelerate out of the corner.

Basically any technique that maximizes the usage of slip angle helps you through a corner.

[iamkjeld]

Liftoff oversteer is not the same as snap oversteer. Full disclaimer, haven't watched the full video, but the first clip definitely shows liftoff oversteer, where the weight transfers to the front when lifting the throttle causing the rear to become light and lose traction. Snap oversteer is when the car has already lost traction and started oversteering and then snaps when the driver tries to correct the car due to the rear tires momentarily getting a lot of grip causing the rear end to snap in the other direction. Think of snap oversteer as a highsider on a motorcycle

[nade]

Great video, I think the mr2 is a very interesting vehicle. A transverse mid engine layout sports car that doesn't have huge power or a high price. Low on power, it makes up for this with a short wheelbase and low polar moment of inertia, causing such snappy handling along with the layout. It's weight distribution gives it a bit of an advantage against FR cars with similar specs, because under braking the weight is distributed equally over all 4 tyres, whereas under acceleration the majority of the weight is over the rear wheels helping grip. However, this has somewhat negative implications when cornering. Unlike a 50/50 weight distribution vehicle, where neutral throttle is used to get the optimum grip on all 4 tyres, the front tyres tend to have less grip than the rear causing understeer. However, trying to correct this mid corner by easing off the throttle has the opposite affect because the weight of the vehicle is near the rear, so its tendency to swing round is amplified compared to an FR vehicle with the weight over the nose. As a result, another optimum driving strategy used by drivers of this layout is to prioritise exit speed even more so than usual, in order to make the most of advantageous straight line braking, to start cornering whilst the weight is still over the front axle and to accelerate as early as possible (playing to the layout's advantages). An unusually late apex racing line can be used to achieve this, as seen by porsche drivers, who's cars with the engine in the back experience similar characteristics (but to a greater effect).

[joaqunluna]

Your videos have impacted my irl driving in a really big way. So thanks for all the information!!! I am also a go-kart pilot, so I get some benefits here and there from your videos too, given ofc not from all the cool drifting videos, moreso form the racing lines and all the other good stuff. Been a great teacher!!!

[bored]

I didn't realize I was using lift off oversteer while rallying I just felt like taping the brake or lifting off throttle real quick during corners that I thought would understeer out of

[JDBUTTO]

As a front engine driver, getting in anything like a Porsche or Ferrari, anything with most of the weight behind you felt really strange and didn’t suit my aggressive driving style, I suffered with under steer a lot trying to power out of corners, that’s now very obviously the wrong thing to do, trail braking and plenty of weight transfer over the front wheels makes these cars so much more fun to drive, the key is using the weight transfer to your advantage, people are quick to say it’s the cars fault (I was one of them) but an adjusted driving style has made me like a wider variety of cars now, still prefer front engine all wheel drive but rear engine cars no longer scare me

[geraldperez]

As we know, Snap Oversteer happens with the MR2 the most. But otherwise this can easily happen to really light cars at high speeds. It's usually felt more in cars that weigh less than 1200kg. Having a light vehicle is good yes especially for performance, but too much weight reduction can also bring in sensitive troubles like snap/lift of oversteer especially if your car doesn't have enough downforce to keep your car planted.

[davidgarratt]

Snap oversteer is when the rear end steps out then suddenly snaps back.
It's not what is shown in this video.
Not trying to be an ahole to the creator but just giving some clarification.

[anthonywashington]

This is a REALLY well made video. It got to the point, kept focus and attention, was interesting, and overall pretty entertaining. Well done!

[NatVirgo]

For the intro, you can’t have snap oversteer without liftoff oversteer but you can have liftoff oversteer without snap oversteer. As someone who owns a 93 sw20 it’s not that bad but for earlier models it’s for sure a real issue.

[Sly_Wyvern]

Videos with you on screen feel way better personally. Super great videos overall. So quickly and simply learn things that remind me how to get better on sim racing. Gracia millia!

[jlk]

I spend most of my time in Sim Racing games drifting cars now, but I have found snap oversteer to be extremely useful in rally or dirt racing. Being able to brend driving styles is extremely useful

[griffinv]

Been subbed to the channel for about a year. Your uploads never disappoint. Your editing style and voice pair together to make a video that is constantly entertaining. I love your vids and I know that you will blow up on YouTube even more than you have so far.

[Mr_Hillbilly_weeb]

As far as i know what you described isnt snap oversteer snap oversteer is when the car kicks sideways you over correct and the car snaps the other way

[izu]

after driving mostly the MR2 around in Assetto for well over a year, ive gotten used to the oversteer and actually try to induce it around sharp corners. lift off oversteer as well as overbraking are my key tactics around majority of the mountain passes

[michakasprzak]

Well, I was waiting for another video but reupload is good as well. I wanted to propose an idea you could test in one of the next videos. And the idea is of course from initial D, in the race AE86 vs Civic, Takumi vs Shingo (his name was I believe), when Takumi got mad, he started going insanely fast and there's a scene where he bumps his rear into the guardrail in one corner to bounce off it and enter another corner. Would you test if it's possible in asseto (or in real life if your're brave enough xD) and would that actually make any sense?

[theboringguy]

bro this editing and talking is so good
why does this get only 10k views

[seanusmcmaximus]

I would say that heel toe downshifting corners in a mr2 will work substantially better than using lift off oversteer, /drifting it. Use the gears, its what they are there for.

[Staro]

wait what happened to the other one did YT take it down? this looks the same