Nah, not really interested in motorsports. More about the physics of driving and how that comes up when driving on a road. For example, the "How to Drive" book I mentioned goes into detail about how your weight shifts as you accelerate and decelerate and tells you how to take that into account as you are turning.

I want to improve my mental model about what the car is doing.

Yikes, left off a crucial detail. I meant setting up iterm2/vim as an external editor. Updated my post.

Or was this what you were talking about? Under linux, I just have it launching gnome-terminal with "-- vim" as the command line flags.

I'm not exactly sure how it worked in practice, but if it's anything like simple aircraft engines with carbs, there's a mixture control that you'd use in addition to the throttle to control air intake.