A GOOD memory and careful posture are the key to powering around bends at 200
kilometres per hour, a study of a racing driver has revealed.
When negotiating a bend, ordinary drivers fix their eyes on the continuously
moving “tangent point” where the inside curve of the road disappears, says Mike
Land of the University of Sussex near Brighton (Â鶹´«Ã½, 30 July 1994, p
17). This allows them to adjust their steering correctly.
Land wondered if the same would be true for racing drivers, who typically
drive 2 or 3 times as fast. To find out, he mounted…
