The thing is that it really doesn't feel like I was pushing hard. I come in for a turn, steer in and if there's anything on the road it doesn't like then it's all over the place. So that's point 1. You hit the curbstone, the road is wet, anything.
The second is that okay you might push it a little bit too hard but in most cars there is still a huge margin for correction. This car there has no margin, mostly because the steering dynamics are all wrong It slips, because of it's light weight it has no traction at all, and when it finally does get traction you're probably steering into the wrong direction!
There is absolutely no way to predict what way the car will go when it does slip and what effects the corrections you make are going to have.
And lets face it, it's all about the sensation. If the car doesn't give you any feeling at all then it's pretty useless as a supercar. I really didn't have the feeling I was going fast and I wasn't really pushing the car that hard.
The biggest point is that the car has alot of oversteer. It's unbelievable, but if you go through corners on average speeds and steer-in like you're supposed the car losses it completely! It just throws it's ass around! Once that happens, it happens alot, then it's over.
It's lightweight combined with it's tendency to oversteer make this car a nightmare to drive.
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