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whats so special about AWD drifting? is it harder then RWD drifting?
This is me, but it depends on your prespective of what is difficult or what is not so difficult. Some people could adapt quicky to AWD if they were to something like MR, FR, even FF, other cases not quite so. Every drive train has a different sense of behavior, even if 2 drivetrains may carry some lose similar traits like FR to MR or FF to 4WD. The former having a difference in just where the engine is placed, the latter to having power to the rear tires (for 4WD's usually more to the rear than the front...less I missed something...) save for a case of a car origionally based on an FR platform like the GTRs, some Mercedes', etc.
This is from my prespective as a FR drifter, and I could be wrong even though it's just
my look at it. I'm used to countersteering, I'm used to feinting, feathering the throttle at times (sometimes though I may set the LSD to have the car slide easy, other cases so I will keep on the throttle all the way depending on that corner and car and conditions)... far as I know... although 4WD carrys one or two things remotely if not anywhere similar to FR, MR, any rear drive... the approach far as I know is a different story.
For starters, counterteering usually is not as much or close to almost none for AWD because the front tires take care of the force you would usually need by countersteering with a rear drive car. What's more, as Sudou had said in Initial D (don't get at me about it) and I think even Delphc reason said it too (could be wrong, forgive me if I am...) that you really, really need to keep on the gas in a number of cases.
I don't know how to actually put it into words that make some tech sense (and I could be totally absolutey wrong about this...), but basilcy, since all four tires are in constant motion, including the front ones, usually you need to stay on the throttle, if you let off or feather it like you would an FR, the result is either losing your drift and/or spining out and/or regaining grip quicker than you would want to. Even though it's a game but it applies to IRL, the scarest part of drifting a 4WD is to keep on the throttle a lot of the time I think... you have to nail everything right with 4WD's a lot of the time and since I'm not used to it yet, it seams more so for that drivetrain than FR.
But I can also imagine a switched senaro for a 4WD drifter to FR with wondering how he/she can manage with feathering the throttle or the countersteering when most of the time he/she has been used to the 4WD drifting style. But again, me, I could be very wrong about this.
What also makes AWD drifting so great (take a look at videos like Art of AWD by Forced Induction, I don't know if it's the music by Daft Punk or the drifts themselves or a mix of both but that's very well done, also countersteer zero by DR...) is that if you usually nail it right, you pull of a number of turns not really if at all possible by any other drive train.
Few things surpass seeing a 4WD go thru a drift at one point even nearly facing the counter inside or nearly or right at 90 degrees for even a brief instance as you'd be hard pressed to try that with an FR (if I have done it, which maybe once or twice but only in some short corners like before the first tunnel on Grand Valley or Midfield II)... or any rear drive train. In the end, it could be easy for some or hard for others, but I figure, if you keep at it, it wount be so hard, it's the approach for anything.
Well, that's about it, soemthing tells me I got half a billion things wrong but oh well, nobody is perfect.
Till later.
). God, I cant wait for my STi.
