The engine will bog down and the driver will not be providing the tires with atleast an optimum torque they can deliver on the road. But if the engines revs are too high, the driver will exceed the maximum torque, this by spinning the wheels.

The driver will get the maximum possible acceleration, if the driver can balance accurately between Traction and Torque. This is not really possible every time in the real world.

Since the changes in road surface have a greater effect at slow speeds, especially when the car is in first gear and therefore putting maximum torque to the wheels,a driver will have to be complete god to accurately and instantly adjust the clutch and throttle to account for smooth acceleration by keeping the traction vs. torque at the maximum. The only way to achieve this is by revving the engine to high rpm and balance using the clutch. The real problem here is that the clutch will last about ten minutes if the driver keeps that up.

Thus, using a controlled wheel spin is the best method, for this reason. Build the revs up to just into the power band. Smoothly let out the clutch so that the wheels gradually start to spin and balance the spin to be just before they are starting to bite again. Keep this up until the car is at a high enough speed that the wheels could grip and would still be in the power band.

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Applying the accelerator smoothly or accelerating smoothly in a typical street car is not as difficult to master as on smooth braking. Most street cars don’t have enough horsepower to cause trouble under most acceleration circumstances in case the car is moving fairly fast. Even the factory exotics and highly modified streetcars rarely have more than 400 horsepower, and in a car weighing 2500 to 3200 pounds, that just isn’t an overabundance of power to learn to control. A typical open wheel car can weigh between 1500 – 1800 lbs, and used to have 700-900 horsepower. This is about five times the power to weight ratio of a typical sports street car. Nevertheless, whether it is relatively easy to control or not, the introduction of 5 hp too much at the right point, you may as well have an extra 900 hp. While the car comes out of a turn and the car begins to straighten out, gradually increase the power as the car get straighter. Pedal pressure applied should be smooth and consistent. Dithery on and off stabs will slow down the car than a smooth increase.

Since most streetcars are not overly sensitive to rough throttle controls (I agree that there are definitely some exceptions), there are possibilities of developing bad habits with the accelerator quite easily. Even though you may not have to be ultra smooth in accelerating the car to maintain control, having the discipline to develop smooth control will help the driver to improvise his lap times and should you have the opportunity to drive a car with higher or better horsepower, you will have the skills to maintain the car pointed in the right direction.

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