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I was about to post this on a thread titled "Your drifting stratagies" but, yeah...
Here's a fresh one with a more intellectual approach.
"Strategy" is how you go about accomplishing something you want to do.
Knowing what you want to do is a completely different story.
Drifting has no rules, which leaves alot of room for diversity.
Another word for diversity could be "style," and the only way you can form a style is by going out and doing it.
When you know exactly what you want to do; only then can you form a strategy.
For example: my 'style' is to adhere to the ideal line (in terms of grip driving), as it gives me a place on the track to aim for.
I initiate the drift by cutting hard into the turn and braking sharply (downshifting [shift lock] and sometimes just lifting off the accelerator will work) to induce oversteer.
Then quickly jump on the gas to make the rear of the car kick out, then let off the throttle when it's at the desired angle, just balance it through the turn. Apex with the front of the car, then rotate the car on it's center axis by slowly lifting off the accelerator so the outside wheels clip the outside rumble strip at the exit.
The only time one should ever need to touch the e-brake is when you screw up.
An example of a screw up would be cutting too soon or braking for too long, in a way that you are sure to bump into the wall on the inside, too far before the apex.
The only way to fix that is to e-brake and counter hard so you drift towards the outside.
Then simply continue your line as usual.
The only thing this is good for is allowing you to continue your drifting session with less disruptions.
Backing up, carefully getting the car going, getting up to speed again, etc..
I would never settle for a drift fixed with a pull of the e-brake if I was recording for a video.
Drifting almost requires a constant radius turn (ie. line, not corner) to look smooth and good, and the easiest way to achieve that is to stick to the line you would if you were racing.
Sliding all over the width of the track (with the exception of the swaying drift technique for the straights) is not an acceptable style as far as I'm (and I'm sure many others are) concerned.
My suggestions: learn how to grip before you learn how to drift. Not vice versa.
Grip driving will teach you how to control the car on a much more exact level.
It will also give you a visual indication of progression (better times), as well as teach you how to determine that so called 'ideal line'
Drifting is something with larger thresholds, so you can do it at your leisure.
Also keep in mind that, although your car may drift while grip driving, it is essentially neither.
Grip when you want to grip. Drift when you want to drift.
When driving at the limit of your tires' traction capacity as to achieve the fastest lap time, your driving style is determined by the way the car is tuned (before you start saying, "oh well how does horsepower determine your driving style," read this thread). If you have a 'driving style', you are not achieving the fastest lap time possible.
If you were to take a handful of the fastest drivers in the world and give them a single car (with parts that never wore out, including the tires) to do hot laps around a track with, all of their driving styles would be the same. Although they may attack the corners with varying degrees of aggressiveness at the beginning, their goal remains uniform. Stay on the ideal line and within the limits of the car.
Given enough laps, they will all end up with the same best lap time.
This is where it gets interesting.
While drifting.. the settings of the car may affect your 'drifting style,' so to say, but it does not determine it.
The way you drift is up to you.
Eventually, the most experienced drifters will adopt an idea of what the 'best' style is, but it's still pretty meaningless.
Like I said in a previous thread.
Just do it.
It's fun.
-The Drifter Formerly Know as Street Fighter.
Here's a fresh one with a more intellectual approach.
"Strategy" is how you go about accomplishing something you want to do.
Knowing what you want to do is a completely different story.
Drifting has no rules, which leaves alot of room for diversity.
Another word for diversity could be "style," and the only way you can form a style is by going out and doing it.
When you know exactly what you want to do; only then can you form a strategy.
For example: my 'style' is to adhere to the ideal line (in terms of grip driving), as it gives me a place on the track to aim for.
I initiate the drift by cutting hard into the turn and braking sharply (downshifting [shift lock] and sometimes just lifting off the accelerator will work) to induce oversteer.
Then quickly jump on the gas to make the rear of the car kick out, then let off the throttle when it's at the desired angle, just balance it through the turn. Apex with the front of the car, then rotate the car on it's center axis by slowly lifting off the accelerator so the outside wheels clip the outside rumble strip at the exit.
The only time one should ever need to touch the e-brake is when you screw up.
An example of a screw up would be cutting too soon or braking for too long, in a way that you are sure to bump into the wall on the inside, too far before the apex.
The only way to fix that is to e-brake and counter hard so you drift towards the outside.
Then simply continue your line as usual.
The only thing this is good for is allowing you to continue your drifting session with less disruptions.
Backing up, carefully getting the car going, getting up to speed again, etc..
I would never settle for a drift fixed with a pull of the e-brake if I was recording for a video.
Drifting almost requires a constant radius turn (ie. line, not corner) to look smooth and good, and the easiest way to achieve that is to stick to the line you would if you were racing.
Sliding all over the width of the track (with the exception of the swaying drift technique for the straights) is not an acceptable style as far as I'm (and I'm sure many others are) concerned.
My suggestions: learn how to grip before you learn how to drift. Not vice versa.
Grip driving will teach you how to control the car on a much more exact level.
It will also give you a visual indication of progression (better times), as well as teach you how to determine that so called 'ideal line'
Drifting is something with larger thresholds, so you can do it at your leisure.
Also keep in mind that, although your car may drift while grip driving, it is essentially neither.
Grip when you want to grip. Drift when you want to drift.
When driving at the limit of your tires' traction capacity as to achieve the fastest lap time, your driving style is determined by the way the car is tuned (before you start saying, "oh well how does horsepower determine your driving style," read this thread). If you have a 'driving style', you are not achieving the fastest lap time possible.
If you were to take a handful of the fastest drivers in the world and give them a single car (with parts that never wore out, including the tires) to do hot laps around a track with, all of their driving styles would be the same. Although they may attack the corners with varying degrees of aggressiveness at the beginning, their goal remains uniform. Stay on the ideal line and within the limits of the car.
Given enough laps, they will all end up with the same best lap time.
This is where it gets interesting.
While drifting.. the settings of the car may affect your 'drifting style,' so to say, but it does not determine it.
The way you drift is up to you.
Eventually, the most experienced drifters will adopt an idea of what the 'best' style is, but it's still pretty meaningless.
Like I said in a previous thread.
Just do it.
It's fun.
-The Drifter Formerly Know as Street Fighter.
but without the lamp
