Originally posted by halfracedrift
OK. To clarify to anyone that is confused:
Whenever you are 'Four-Wheel drifting' you are actually maintaining control of the car by the accelerator, now, you might say that four wheel drifting has no grip so you can't accelerate anyway, wrong. Sure, you don't have that much grip when the tires are slipping/sliding, but there is always friction on the road that you are driving on. So no matter what, there is always going to be some amount of "forward motion" going on, thus, you can make the car go foward.
Now, whenever you are 'powersliding' you have NO control over the car. The tires have exceeded their grip and locked up. If the tires lock up, you can't make them move, so you can't accelerate or do anything with them.
Often, people mistake exhibition drifting with four wheel drifting, but there is a big difference.
Exhibition Drifting is trying to push the car as sideways as possible, yet, maintaining control. The angle of drift is extreme, much more than four wheel drifting.
When you are four wheel drifting, you actually don't go as sideways as you can. All you are doing is taking the best line through the corner, while maintaining control also. Unlike exhibition drifting, the angle of drift is much smaller. This is to prevent unecessary loss of traction or power. This is what F1 cars do, although you might say they aren't sliding all over the place. As someone mentioned earlier, technology has reduced the slipping alot. When you can't actually see the slipping, you might think that they are not drifting, but various things can affect how the eye sees something.
I'm getting better at drifting, but I got a bit to go untill I reach your level. I wish I had a capture card and more HD space so I could make my own videos...
