[FASTFATBOY]

Mike Skeen at the wheel, those two Stangs are making some grits under the hood.

http://youtu.be/FKpWiT0A_9A

[mr.beachcomber]

Actually, I would say that it was the result of better threshold braking by Mike given equal braking capabilities between the two cars.

As a driver, you want to use your brakes to the threshold of lock-up and not activate ABS (which will result in longer, not a shorter, braking distance).

Once you've activated ABS, all you can do is stay on the brakes until the car slows down to the point where you re-gain control and by lifting off the brakes.

[StanIROCZ]

As a driver, you want to use your brakes to the threshold of lock-up and not activate ABS (which will result in longer, not a shorter, braking distance).

I suppose it depends on how good of ABS system you have and how good of a driver you are. When I talk to the new Vette and Mustang drivers they basically use the brakes as an on off switch and let the ABS do all the modulation. They also go twice as deep into the braking zone as I.

Without ABS you are limited by the tire with the least amout of traction (assuming your front to rear bias is optimized). If one wheel goes into a dip or goes over a smooth patch of tar it is going to lock up before the others which means you have to let up on the pedal. With a good 4 channel ABS it will pull pressure only from that one wheel while still maintaining the pressure to the others. Basically it acts as a 4 wheel LSD. I don't see how even the best driver can do better than that.

It is also very possible that Skeen knows his way around that track very well,.