I generally bite my tongue on stuff like this but that is by far the best video I've seen on how modern traction controls can save your bacon. That car was being completely overdriven and it never even stepped out on him. The Porsche guy should have pointed him by and made some distance between when he saw the Corvette's erratic line behind him. No comment on the instructor though. I don't know how anyone could be a passenger in that situation. But from a spotter's perspective, there wasn't really anything that would warrant a black flag in most 'Group 4' HPDE's. People dice it up pretty good in Group 4 (open passing groups). I think what is most frustrating is that the true art of race craft is gone with these new cars.
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