Both hands on the wheel, but keep my thumbs out the way. A mate hit a tree head on in his rally car & broke both his thumbs... ouch :blink:
I try(!) & feed the wheel through on the road, but use the quarter to & quarter past fixed position when on track
Me too
Hold on while I mount my trusty hobby horse once again.
Where you have your hands is a product of Muscle Memory that is the direct end result of the drivers good or bad/poor /lazy/sloppy habits get ingrained into your MM and it takes a strong will to reverse them.
I always use the 9 & 3 position all the time on the road or track as IMHO that is the absolute best position for car control and for any driver to respond to an emergency that requires a change of direction.
In an emergency situation where fractions of seconds can be the thing between crashing or not IF you for instance have one hand on the wheel @ 12 & the other on the shifter/handbrake or the girlfriends knee and you need to turn hard left at 60 kph and your reaction takes 1/2 second you will be app 8.4 metres closer to whatever you want to avoid before starting the steering input required to avoid a crash.
If a driver uses the 12 @ gearstick type hand position then as a general rule they are in cruise mode and the reaction time will blow out to over 1 second.
60 KPH = 16.7 metres per second
80 ..... = 22 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
100.... = 27.8 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Gets down off hobby horse/soapbox