How to use a car's traction

I've tried and tried and tried to master the elegy but it is just for me so unpredictable i can get faster lap times in my massacro i think its all down to personal preference and personal driving style for example Broughy has said himself the dominator does not suit him or his driving style but it is fastest in class

Ah ok, so your saying cars with really good traction are able to get that bit more speed in a corner before it starts sliding, and the sliding is what you want to avoid because it's a speed killer? So a car like the elegy for example gets such good times because you can push it further when cornering, maintaining speed and not losing anything to sliding yeah? Thanks for the replies bty.

Cheers for the link mate will have a read. You find it too slippy? I mean I don't really notice any huge difference between it and the other top 3 or 4 sports cars in terms of slippiness, I tend to get slightly better lap times with it and I always presumed it was because of the acceleration of it. What's the big deal about the elegys traction if you find it kinda slippy?

Cheers for all the replies guys and gals, I definitely understand traction and how to utilise it properly now, cheers!

I'm most comfortable with the Massacro. I mostly used the Elegy before and wanted to move away from it. I didn't particularly like the Elegy's looseness once the backend breaks loose. It has a lot of grip, but as soon as it starts sliding it doesn't seem to want to settle down, especially with its acceleration. I feel the Massacro fits my style of driving more. It understeers, but I can brake later and turn in quicker by backing it into a turn without it feeling like it's gonna throw me into a wall. I love the Massacro's grip and how planted it seems (not so twitchy). Even if it breaks loose it is very forgiving and correctable without losing too much speed. The acceleration isn't the greatest, but I feel its grip allows you to get on the gas sooner which helps it out a bit. I've used the Jester for a time and liked it, but felt it was barely too slow to be competitive amongst skilled racers. I've started using a Feltzer recently and it definitely has a fun factor with its acceleration and grip, even when it's being slippery.

You can almost never recover from a mistake with the elegy, once it starts slipping than you're 9/10 going to do a 360 or be sideways full stop.
Imo the elegy is a really easy car to drive, until you try and go for it's limit. You can carry so much speed trough corners without any effort, I don't like it anymore. When you're doing laps on a track, 1 time you'll go trough the corner and next lap when you take the corner the same way it will just crash in it. There is no reason why it sometimes loses and sometimes not for me.
That's why I like the feltzer, it's a challenge to master since it's very slippery but that's also the cars that I prefer. You can push too hard and go sideways and recover from it with an epic drift. I used to like the massacro a lot tho.