Originally Posted by Black

Ok guys lets end this once and for all...... Turning your wheels in the air DOES HELP....

To begin, when you are leaving the face of a jump and have a downside with no immediate turns afterwards it provides no benefit, as you see in earlier post of Fish Daddy(B.Fischer) not doing it on jumps with no soon to follow turns. However, when you have a downside and jump right afterwards you ALWAYS want to do it. Several reasons, positioning of the car, lateral forces and speed.

Positioning of the car is important. Its pretty basic, you want the car setup to make the smoothest most effiecient turn, the rounder the faster.

Lateral forces of the car.....this is the long section..... When you are landing a jump with a turn immediately afterwards you want to turn the wheels the opposite way of the jump. This puts all of the forces on that side of the car. With this being said, if the jump turns right, have the wheels turned left. This changes the placed weight of the car on the shocks amongst landing. So when you land, most of the lateral weight will be on the right side of the car. So when taking that right hand turn and all of the transitional weight is already on the right hand side of the car, you are able to pick up the throttle quicker, as well as the car being more stabile. The reason this is functional is that the left side of the car has yet to be affected by the redistribution of forces. With that being said, as you are picking up the throttle and already in the corner, THEN the weight is transferred back to the left side, but at this point the car is already through most of the corner and is starting to level out, thus rarely does it upset the car.

Now for you nay-sayers out there. Imagine if you are jumping into the same right hand corner with the wheels to the right. By doing this you have already put all of the transitional weight(lateral forces) on that side of the car. So when you land, muchless carrying speed, your car with either flip due to the left side already being loaded with weight, or the ass end of the car will come around and you will be facing the other direction or the pipe before you will know what hit you.

Most importantly, doing this makes you faster and will help you find those precious tenths of a second, hell maybe even a second.

Now as far as scrubbing speed, there are several ways to do it. I am by no means mixing it up with the MX guys because, well frankly I am not that good on a dirt bike. When hitting a jump you can "load" the jump but approaching the jump fast and easing off of the throttle, thus allowing you to fly just high and far enough to clear any jump without over powering the jump.. keeps the car lower and more controllable....its what we do in 2wd. Secondly, you can hit the jump as hard as you want and jam the brakes right before you leave the lip, this will send the car off nose down and allows the air to push the rear end down. This is fun, fast and rough on equipment. Its fun because it looks kewl and sounds even better. Fast because the car is positioned already to downside and you can already be bringing the power back before you hit the downside. Its rough on the equpiment because you are jamming your throttle servo to full lock on every jump every lap, wears stuff out quick. Also if you over brake the jump, you have to death rev the engine to bring the nose of the car back up.

Pretty sure I covered everything.

Also, if you still dont believe, ask around and find out how Greg Degani murdered everyone at the 2000 worlds. It was because of the transitional turning in the air.