Understeer and Oversteer
These are the two most commonly discussed problems when it comes to handling. Both of them result in the car not heading in the direction the steering wheel should have pointed it. A car that oversteers will rotate more than expected and feel as if the rear tires have started to slide sideways. The tires are not actually sliding, but instead are drifting. Drifting occurs when the force of cornering causes the tire to bend sideways, and the direction in which the car is traveling becomes slightly different from the direction in which the tires are actually pointed. The angle between the direction in which the car is going and the direction in which the tire is pointed is known as the slip angle.
When a car oversteers, ...
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