Skylarking
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Once when driving my front wheel drive POS daily, I needed (wanted) to spin out the rear so pulled the hand brake as I always did in my younger days (pre ABS cars).You can't do a handbrake turn as easily with no lever modulation either! It's the reason M2/3/4 BMW's retained the lever mechanical handbrake where most of the others are now electric.
Unfortunately ESC kicked in and the nanny decided such wasn’t appropriate manners. The bloody system clamped my brake rotors in a way that stopped the spin I wanted while inducing a strait slide almost into the gutter… worst part was it wasn’t a quiet road so I have a few spectators… what an embarrassing hoon moment that was
Note to self, try again on a quiet road with ESC switched off, just for giggles, and don’t do it again in front of any audience
PS: I’d hope the M2/3/4 have some logic that automatically turns off ESC if the driver yanks on the handbrake while driving