Hi MMD,
I'm (obviously) neither a race driver, or even an advanced amateur, or even a "better" driver, just adding to the discussion here.
If you let go of the throttle in the middle of the turn or coming into it too fast, I don't think PSM *can* prevent a rear swing or spin as this is just the law of physics. I'd think PSM would activate subsequently, not during the event of the swing, where really no amount of slowing down the wheel to grab traction will prevent the tail from wanting to follow momentum.
Same thing with wet road (I know you only mentioned "damp," btw were the tires cold too?). I don't know if PSM would help or activate DURING a complete break of tire traction where tire is sliding sideway. (The extreme of this situation is a sharp turn on icy road--car will slide per forward momentum and no amount of PSM would prevent this slide.)
A couple times now you've mentioned tail swing into corner? First, take care! Otherwise: I don't know enough to guess what happened, other than of course you were playing with/testing the system and obviously the speed was too high. The only time that I've found this car to be tail happy, as expected and as you might have experienced, is accelerating into turn, realizing I'm too fast, and let go of gas pedal, to get into more "trouble."
With the amazing amount of power and torque involved here, I am even more careful now to accelerate only after apex, and going into the turn slower.
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MMD said:
Took a familiar corner a bit frisky, lots of viz. lots of room, nobody in sight. Unfortunately the road was a little damp.
Car oversteers, shudders, rear swings out. Prepared and forewarned I just bailed and purposefully let off gas (going pretty slow, lots of room) and glare at dash looking for PCM light: nothing.
With my 997 C2S I knew exactly what would happen on this familiar turn: PCM nanny would catch the little grip loss and take over admirably and ruin the fun; no big whoop.
I would be very grateful if you could point me to the thread on this Turbo Dynamic Traction Control or PSM or steering set up problem again. I didn't nail it down the last time.
Also, any other input would be equally appreciated.
P.S. was NOT in "sport" mode.