{"id":4176,"date":"2015-03-02T23:01:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T23:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:32:28","slug":"skid-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/skid-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Skid School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth and I went drifting a couple of weeks ago, with mixed results.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit I was more than a little nervous, having only ever done a wheelspin once, in someone else&#8217;s hire car (you know who you are), about fifteen years ago. I suppose the MX-5 did get a bit feisty and sideways a couple of times, but nothing serious. However, it turns out that doughnuts are easy. Figures of eight are a bit more difficult, and anything more advanced is horribly complicated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4177\" style=\"width: 961px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4177\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0357-e1426632852302.jpg\" alt=\"About to head out and get sideways. \u00a9\u00a0Gareth Williams 2015\" width=\"951\" height=\"713\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">About to head out and get sideways. \u00a9\u00a0Gareth Williams 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was quite interesting to deliberately thrash the life out of something, although it wasn&#8217;t anywhere near as finessed as I&#8217;d imagined. In fairness though, we weren&#8217;t talking about <a title=\"Ken Block, San Francisco\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LuDN2bCIyus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this kind of accuracy.<\/a> With some more instruction I&#8217;m sure you could pick it up quite quickly, but I think I enjoyed the <a title=\"Haydn Williams Blog - I Like Driving in Dad's Car\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/i-like-driving-in-dads-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">track day at Oulton Park<\/a> more (probably because I was a bit better at it &#8211; I get grumpy when I can&#8217;t do things). Great fun to play around in a risk-free environment though, especially for someone as risk-averse as me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth and I went drifting a couple of weeks ago, with mixed results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[918],"class_list":["post-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","tag-drifting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}