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"Blink and you&amp;#039;ll miss it.  Take Team Penske&amp;#039;s Will Power, IndyCar&amp;#039;s fastest driver over the past few years, put him in a 1600-pound, 700hp Chevy twin-turbo-powered Dallara DW12 Indy car chassis, and watch the Aussie work at lightning-fast speeds behind the steering wheel.         He, along with a few of the other ridiculously talented IndyCar drivers, regularly put on driving clinics in slow corners as they pick up the throttle a touch earlier than others and use a bit of wheelspin to power out to the apex in search of a faster lap time. I captured Power storming out of Sebring&amp;#039;s hairpin this week on two consecutive laps where the 31-year-old&amp;#039;s hands are a blur of motion, keeping the tail of his Indy car under control while his Firestone tires search for grip and his 2.2-liter Chevy bangs off the rev limiter. In the first clip, it takes Power approximately 1.15 seconds to go from the hairpin&amp;#039;s apex to the corner exit curbing and that flurry of activity in the cockpit\u2014where he&amp;#039;s feeding in opposite lock while keeping his foot planted on the throttle\u2014takes .96 seconds. He makes one big correction to catch the initial slide, then, as you see in slow motion, it takes another, smaller flick of the wrists to settle the rear down to get the chassis pointed straight and on the way to the next turn. The second lap, which is almost a mirror image of the first, sees the slide start farther away from the hairpin and has Power fighting the oversteer all the way out onto and over the curbing.  Power told RoadandTrack.com that from inside his open-wheel office, and even though slides such as these are over and done so quickly, it&amp;#039;s a fluid part of the job. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not quite a subconscious thing because you capture it all to download and discuss to your engineers at the end of the run, but it does just kind of happen,&amp;quot; Power said. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re always trying to be ahead of the car\u2014to know and anticipate what it&amp;#039;s going to do in each corner. So you know that with the turbo power and a bumpy track like Sebring, you&amp;#039;re gonna have wheelspin or oversteer and you&amp;#039;re always prepared to deal with it.&amp;quot; Power&amp;#039;s split second reaction and preparedness to feed opposite lock, as he explains, are tools he keeps loaded in the chamber at all times. &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t ever want to be surprised by something like that because it can really catch you out,&amp;quot; he continued. &amp;quot;You might not know how much is coming, but you&amp;#039;re ready to catch the car and keep moving. You don&amp;#039;t want to lose any time; you&amp;#039;re trying to improve your lap time, actually, so you can&amp;#039;t waste time with big slides. You sense it coming and try to be as tidy as you can to get the car back to [being] straight. But it all happens so fast, man.&amp;quot; Compared to a drifting video, it might not look like much without the billowing tire smoke and hundred-foot-long sideways moment, but watching one of the fastest men on the planet feel the start of a slide, react to it, correct it and keep moving in under a second\u2014and without losing time\u2014is just something on an altogether different level.  If drifting a Chevy V8-powered Nissan S13 requires about as much subtlety as shooting watermelons with a shotgun, drifting a Chevy V6-powered Indy car must be like hitting a Coke can from a thousand yards with a sniper rifle. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just cool to see slow-motion video like this because I don&amp;#039;t think people get to see how fast and hard it is to drive an Indy car on the edge like that, even in the slow corners,&amp;quot; said Power. &amp;quot;It might look like we&amp;#039;re under control all the time, but if you slow it down, you can see these cars are always moving around but those little moments are over and gone before most people know it even happened.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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