Apart from the obvious.
My Cup now has 4500miles on it and is still getting more urgent by the day. Ive recently been dabbling with a few B-road blasts with the ESP switched off, and surprsingly it feels more than a tiny bit more rapid without it. I find this strange because its not like Im otherwise usually driving mad enough for the ESP to be kicking in...yet the car just feels that bit more rapid with it siwtched off. Not so much straight line speed, but mid corner throttle response and power seems improved.
Am I imagining this??? Does ESP tame down some things in-corner - such as torque (and thus torque steer) and throttle resopnse etc. - as well as do the obvious thing like saving your bacon when youre about to get all crossed up?