Q:Lotus? Ferrari? A:Ferrari!

Yes, because you're Canadian, and you naturally lean to the left. Eh?

 

As was said to me when I first joined in, miles of smiles!

 

I guess you will get used to it

Many cars do not have a dead straight steering wheel. Infact my club race car didn't as the steering column had to clear carburettors, etc. and I never noticed it ...

If you sit correctly so that your arms are slightly bent then your body will accommodate. Many make the mistake of going for the 100% straight arm position that looks so cool, but when your car is pulling big G's through a corner and your arm is at the top of the steering wheel you will find you do not have much strenght left because your arms are dead straight.

The straight arm technic came from the 60's (and also from Farina ... earlier) when they first laid the drivers back in the little rear engined F1 cars, but you will see that F1 drivers (and other professionals) now actually sit a little closer and have their arms with that little necessary bend in them.

In the end too straight might look cool (and yep I see many ricers laying back with their arms dead straight, that would not even be able to reach the top of the steering wheel ... idiots IMO, and would have to shuffle the steering wheel to make turns.) but looking stylish should never IMO come before performance ...

BTW shuffling the steering wheel is also a very BAD practise when performance driving. Any time you have to rebite the steering wheel you are endanger of loosing where you were and is the cause of many over corrections and thus spins. Plus when you are re-positioning your hands you are missing out on important feed back that the front tyres are trying to tell you. No racing driver worth a grain of salt does this, they simply speed the steering rack up if they have too to suit the track ...

Now parking, etc. is different

Pete

 

That's great, enjoy your car!

I'd like to hear more about which Lotus you drove and why you picked the 328 over the Esprit (how many ferrari's did you drive, was this your first one?)

 

Congrats...but this thread is worthless w/o pics!!!

 

Your steering wheel is adjustable, but requires you to get under the dash with a wrench to do it. The standard Ferrari position puts the wheel a little 'high', but I hadn't noticed mine pointing at my right shoulder. Now I'm going to have to check it out.

My '91 Yukon XL has the off center problem, the steering wheel is about 8 inches off. It always makes my left shoulder hurt when I drive it long distance.