I think the limit you mentioned of 0.3g is more driver dependent/limited, then the limit of the car. Almost any road car will be able to corner with at least 0.5g on a dry road. IMHO
Yes it is. I searched for it but can't find it at the moment. It was for normal road car drivers. It says that they feel uncomfortable to go beyond 0,3g.
I wrote it regarding the question of the threat opener:
We all often hear of "the limit." "I was on the limit" "my lap was on the limit." How is it that the drivers know this? I mean, if we drive a normal road car (well if I do anyways) say I'm taking a corner fast (which I shouldn't really do ) I can kind of feel, "uh-oh. I can't turn any faster than this or I'll flip, or spin out."
I think you can't really know where the limit is when you never touch it and go beyond it. Racing is a big mind game. Regardless what car you drive a F1-car, Rally, go-cart or your normal car. When you drive towards a corner you must guess based on experience how fast you can take it. You can be either to slow or to quick and will crash out severally, get killed or injured. You never want to try it with your normal car but go on a go-cart track. Even there I must admit that I can't switch of my brain totally. raymondu999 I think you should do that. It is probably be the best answer to your question. Find the limit yourself. When you have done a few laps you might think you found it but then compare your time with others. I always wonder when they are still 2 seconds faster.
These days on F1 you have mainly tarmac run out areas and nothing happens when you go beyond the limit. Furthermore you run the same corners over and over again. Drivers have several changes to find the limit over the weekend. Maybe that’s one of the most important reasons why we have so many competitive drivers these days.
How about rally drivers?
They make their notes and then have to run a several kilometres long track over normal streets and dirt tracks. When they once go to far you can be 100% sure the car will be damaged. The pure idea to drive trough a forest with over 180km/h on gravel is pure scary. You also notice that there is just one man winning over and over again -Sebastian Loeb. Seems like at the moment there simply is no driver who can match him. You will find the speed in your mind. The best drivers will be filtered out by the average ones when the track really demands some courage and failures will get punished.