A Visual Aid For Steering Right!
3:00 and 9:00 with the thumbs wrapped around
The proper hand positions are 3:00 and 9:00 with the thumbs wrapped around the ring resting on the crossbrace, the palms cupping the outer diameter of the ring, and the heels of the palm applying a light pressure to the front of the wheel. The grip should be relaxed–just tight enough for control and good sensory input.
This provides extra stability
If a corner requires a little more steering input than 180 degrees, the following technique provides the most control. This should get the car through even slow, tight, 90-degree turns. Let’s look at a right turn for the example.
The 11:00 position
Just before the turn-in point, relax the grip on the right hand and slide it along the wheel to the 11:00 position (don’t take your hand off the wheel). This places both hands close together at the start of the turn.
Keep both hands close together, and progress through the turn. This hand position allows about 260 degrees of steering wheel movement placing the right hand about 6:00.
When unwinding from this position, leave both hands tight on the wheel until the right hand reaches 9:00. Relax the right hand grip slightly, finish leading the unwind with the left hand, and allow the wheel to slide through the right hand.
Relax
For hairpins, or switch-back corners, you will likely need to use a hand over hand action. Some drivers like to start a large steering input like this by placing the leading hand at the 6:00 position, and turning a full 360 degrees before involving the other hand. This seems to simply the action, but it has the drawback of having only one hand on the wheel for quite a while. The control is not likely to be as smooth, the sensory input is halved, and in a racing situation in traffic, the ability to maintain control if bumped is reduced. Smaller, repetitive hand moves in a hand over hand situation is better.
This method is useless in road driving. Even on the track, it has a very limited use. Most corners are taken by the 9:15 fixed input position. Actually, in 9:15 the leverage isn’t 190 degrees, it 270, so I don’t see a need to use this method, where the wheel is turned 220 degrees. In hairpins, it’s again useless.
Also, pushing is all about the brute strength of the shoulder muscles. However, these muscles are very unsensitive and will not provide smooth control. While in pulling down (like in the shuffle method) steering is not smooth due to wrist twist. However, when pulling from across the wheel, down to 3 or 9, so the wrist stays firm.