I don’t really follow on the “coordination not visualisation”? Normal drivings chiefly visual skill, but surely coordination involves responding all the sensory cues, including the visual, and then of course there’s the “visualisation” aspect in the sense of anticipating what will happen next, which means you avoid even the situation where heroic rescue of a tank slapper is even necessary. I kinda think if you lack that aspect, of actively thinking about your driving, you’re just as likely to meet a sticky end in Hyundai as anything else.
FWD is a godsend for winter driving, but only because the weights over the driven wheels. Trying to hillstart an E34 with no traction control on an icy road is no joke! Mid/rear engine can work quite well in the snow, there’s nothing more amusing than overtaking a over-cautiously driven Subaru, in a 3rd gen MR2, in the snow, with the roof down… 😀

Sure, coordination is neccesary when you get yourself into the oversteer situation, if by which you mean that sort of instinctive muscle memory where you dial in the lock etc. ..but you don’t get that unless you intentionally get yourself in a skid type situation, in a relatively safe situation, many times, and of course, due to the antics of mustang bros, or indeed, Irelands diffin’ crowd, such things are frowned upon, even when done on off the road. You need either access to a track/drift park or a very understanding land owner. Unless you live in Sweden of course and they do skid pan training as part of teaching you to drive.
We may have of course had the odd bit of sideways “I didn’t realize it was so slippy officer honest” moments, but generally such things are frowned on to varying degrees. Australia has a near zero tolerance policy on any kind of wheelspin in public for example. “Practice” has always be a very controversial subject, there’s a brilliant Autocar article from 1934 called the ethichs of skidding, back when cars were even more mechanically challenging and low grip than even the RWD cars of the 70s/80s, which shows that moral panic about sideways moments is nothing new..
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/anything-goes/ethics-skidding-2-february-1934-throwback-thursday
These skills are good to have, but the truth is, while we revel in the “nailing the apex” (though of course for real world fast driving the correct line is usually wider for visibility) and catching oversteer, when you starting getting into stuff like roadcraft, which is the standard textbook for police driving in the UK, while these skills are taught, they are secondary to the head part, which is far more than seeing the line. It’s about understanding the nature of your vehicle, driving for the conditions, journey management, mitigating overconfidence in your own abilities, etc. are more likely to stop you having am accident than even Ken Block levels of car control. That’s sorta where I’m getting at with the FWD to RWD not really having that big effect on accidents, it’s attitude.
Bros beeing eejits, maybe not, but there’s no accounting for that, dumbasses gonna be dumb.

Different part of the brain, subconcious vs the concious. Everyone knows the unconcious brain does most of the “heavy lifting” in normal life without every realizing it, but use of the frontal greay matter can avoid completely the need to engage all that lower brain function in the first place.
Getting sideways out of meet isn’t “high performance” driving, its just hooligan arsemongery,. Had brain been engaged, you wouldn’t let your ego get the better of you in the first place. Sure we’ve all done the naughty peel out of a junction thing at times, but it’s a pretty calculated risk, usually in more low key circumstances, we understand: big boys games = big boys rules.
Peeling out of a meet is just a really bad move, even if you’re a drift king, too many variables, too many people around, and even if you do an inch perfect hoon, it tends to make it real difficult to organize meets, that sort of behaviour tends to kill meets. We’ve had a fair bit of difficulty getting C&C locations round Dublin, even though virtually all our attendees are usually impeccably behaved.
Time and place… “Responsible hooning” if that’s not too much of an oxymoron.
As for Eurohatch yobbos on cut springs, yeah they exist, but a stock 205 GTi requires as much respect as any E30 of the same era. With a wider front track than rear, short wheelbase and chassis setup to rotate on demand, it doesn’t suffer lead footed fools.

Wait, Hooniverse contributors are getting paid now?
Mind/brain – sure I know what the bits of the brain are and their basic function, I still have the pull apart model on my desk from my time in Pharma. My favorite Dad joke was to rest it on a pile of over the counter meds and then when someone would wander in and ask what the hell it was, I’d tell them – this is your brain on drugs…. anyway, you’re getting way into the semantics of neuroscience and missing the over all point.
Legality and morality have nothing to do with it, the principles of roadcraft/defensive driving can be applied anywhere, it’s something I had to go through as part of my time working in oilfield services, even though I was office based. It’s about staying alive. Try give roadcraft a read sometime, it’s pretty much guaranteed to make anyone reassess their driving.
Sure Ireland has an element of nanny stateism in some ways, but don’t tell me your local fuzz wouldn’t give you a ticket, and the thing you have to understand about Ireland, is there’s the laws, and the laws that are actually enforced, especially in its more rural parts.. other countries are fairly clear cut. there’s legal and illegal, but as one wry Irish standup noted, things here fall into three categories.
1. That’s Grand, carry on
2. Ah lads, stop the messin..
3. RIGHT, NOW YOU’RE JUST TAKING THE P***
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