10 and 2. Still Viable?

[Kylehnat]

Always 9 and 3. On longer trips, I'll move my hands around to reduce the strain on my arms and shoulders. Usually when I do this, I drop my left hand to 6 and keep the right hand at 3...don't know why.

I've never liked 10 and 2; it just feels unstable to me, and seems like a relic from the days before power steering, when steering wheels were six feet wide. I'm not sure what the advantage to 10 and 2 is now. I suspect none.

 

[The Vanishing Boy]

-> It depends on my Confort Zone. Most of the time, I drive on either between 9 & 3 up to 9.30 & 2.30. If I'm really lazy, I go do a one-hand (either 9, 9.30, 8, 7.30 or 3, 3.30, 4.30). Its hard to explain it with words.

-> If I could dig up my Protege5 Drift videos...

 

[Philly]

I usually am 9-3 because that's where my paddle shifters are. Although I guess 9-4:30 is also pretty common because I noticed that it's annoying that I keep moving my hand up to upshift. I guess it really depends on which shifter I'm using at the time.

Sometimes I do 10-2 for fast driving without shifting because my steering wheel has bolsters there that are sweet to hold.

 

[PureAwesomeness]

For long distance journeys I find myself changing hand positions to stop my arms from aching too much. I think 10 and 2 is the safest position though.

 

[niky]

9 and 3, hands on the wheel at all times, as taught on track. Simply because at higher speeds, it's better to know where center on the wheel is if you're caught in an emergency.

At highway speeds, if you have to turn the wheel enough to do hand-over-hand or shuffle, you're going to be understeering straight into a wall, anyway.

At low speeds, in parking lots and autocrosses... hand-over-hand... I always get lost shuffling.

 

[Eric.]

What do we call the right hand positioning here?

 

[Azuremen]

I normally do 9-3 with the shuffle. Sometimes, on long highway trips, I'll have just one hand sitting at the bottom of the wheel (5, 6, 7 spots), but thats about it.

 

[TheBigMan045]

9-3 with thumbs outside wheel when giving it a bit, (learned that the hard way, when the wheel kicks around thumbs get caught) but when cruising its more of a 2 position and the other hand either on the gear stick or playing with the radio (by touch) using the "Truck Driver" method using the palm of my hand

 

[The Vanishing Boy]

-> ...

What do we call the right hand positioning here?

^ Don't get the wrong idea there buddy! Long trip to Utah that is all.

 

[Famine]

That'll be fun during a blowout.

 

[Casio]

Yeah, I'm a one hand driver. Usually at 6 o'Clock with a couple of fingers.

 

[Stotty]

9-3 when driving 'briskly', mostly one handed the rest of the time.

But tighter, slow speed corners and when manuvering I use push-pull (a combination of hand over and shuffle).

 

[homeforsummer]

I use 9 and 3 generally, and cross my arms through corners. You're taught not to do the latter when you're learning, but I picked it up from circuit-based training and it works perfectly well with quicker steering racks.

Obviously it's no good when I'm parking, so I do whatever is easiest in slower driving.

 

[TheCracker]

10 and 2. Although most of the time I'm just sort of... 2, with the other hand resting on the gearstick.

I have to admit that i'm pretty much the same, although that's mostly slow stop-start city driving

Of course this leads to a twirl (crossed arms) rather than a hand over or shuffle.

 

[jet1991]

I usually drive with my hands at 10 and 2. my driving teacher told me you`d fail drivers ed over here (Norway) if you don`t. When I`m turning the wheel more than 60 degrees, I usually just use the palm of my left hand and since I have a idiomatic, sorry, automatic, I just keep my right hand an inch or so over 9 o`clock, but not actually touching the wheel. It`s very easy when you`re used to slipping your hand of the steering wheel and know how to not let your hand slip. But thats why I keep my right hand ready. The leather on my corvettes steering wheel is very worn and slippery, but all other cars I`ve driven were easy to do this in.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Mainly a mixture of 9 and 3, and just 3

 

[Jim Prower]

Paid attention to it today. Yeah, I shuffle.

 

[mustangGT90210]

I'm left hand at 11, right arm on the armrest; or right hand at 4, left out the window. Turning, I palm the wheel. Any spirited driving in stuff that isn't my truck, if I have to crank the wheel far enough to need to move my hand from it's 11 o clock position, I shouldn't be in that turn to start with. But on the off chance of that, I shuffle or palm, depends how I feel. No airbags, so it doesn't really matter. I've never been a hand over hand person, always over corrected.

 

[ranhammerR34]

I drive at 9 and 3. 10 and 2 was too difficult for me because I couldn't comfortable with.