Ford Fiesta 1.6S Track day & ABS demonstration Last week, Ford invited some media journalists to the MMST, in Chennai to have a go with their Fiesta 1.6S. The idea was to make people appreciate the changes made in the favourable light of a race track. The chief of vehicle dynamics, Ford Australia, Mr. Con Balasis was present to demonstrate the handling dynamics of the car on the track. The course was set up with more cones (other than Mr. Con himself ![Smile](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.png) ) to create the situations of a Collision avoidance manuever apart from the usual slalom and decreasing angle corners.
The event was neatly divided into demo laps, individual laps and some ABS/EBD demonstrations. The demo laps with Mr. Con were amazing as he hurled the car through the cones(again...No pun intended Mr. Con). While it got some of the inexperienced people too excited...I got behind the wheel of my car and followed him in his Fiesta. Mr. Con was driving as the pace car but the lady behind me was too slow and getting far behind that Mr. Con had to slow down spoiling the fun I was having. The individual laps that followed more than made up for it though.
While I have to reserve some of the photos for printing purposes, here are some to feast your eyes upon. Will give more on the story later. ![Ford Fiesta 1.6S Track day & ABS demonstration-img_0928.jpg](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/road-safety/35168d1692854888t-ford-fiesta-1-6s-track-day-abs-demonstration-img_0928.jpg)
The lineup of cars. In fact there was one more Fiesta which had the ABS disconnected ![Ford Fiesta 1.6S Track day & ABS demonstration-img_0855.jpg](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/road-safety/35160d1692854866t-ford-fiesta-1-6s-track-day-abs-demonstration-img_0855.jpg)
The truck pouring water to wet the track ![Ford Fiesta 1.6S Track day & ABS demonstration-img_0874.jpg](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/road-safety/35162d1692854888t-ford-fiesta-1-6s-track-day-abs-demonstration-img_0874.jpg)
Con approached the wet patch and hits the brakes and attempts to steer it at the same time to avoid an imaginary obstacle that suddenly jumped into the road. ![Ford Fiesta 1.6S Track day & ABS demonstration-img_0876.jpg](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/road-safety/35163d1692854888t-ford-fiesta-1-6s-track-day-abs-demonstration-img_0876.jpg)
The ABS and EBD equipped car responds without locking its wheels and he comes to a stop avoiding an imaginary obstacle
He does the same in the vehicle with ABS+EBD disabled. You can see that despite the steering lock, the vehicle slides forward
And he ends up like this.
Nothing new here. We have all been brought up driving non ABS vehicles so far and we know how an ABS equipped vehicle stops. But Ford thought it necessary to demonstrate this one.
The funny thing was that everyone preferred to watch the non ABS vehicle come to a screeching halt ![LOL](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/LOL.png) .
(Couldn't click too many pictures as I was more involved in doing more laps. Sorry for the quick shutter speeds that seemed to have taken the motion out of the pictures.)
Last edited by vivekji05 : 5th August 2008 at 08:08.
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