How do you initiate a slide?

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As there is no real tutorial on how to drift a car, i tried practicing with alot of different style. What i found is that if i hard brake before entering a corner and when i feel that the weight of the car has shifted to the front i basically just turn the steering wheel a bit, put into a gear where the back wheel will grip and then floor the throttle to initiate a slide. The problem with this method is if the gear is low, the car will slide too much and as the weight shift back to all four wheels i loose control no matter how much i counter steer it or go light with the throttle.

I noticed that in all of the professional drifting videos of gt5, all of them has very little effort with the steering, it seems like they just put the gear to fit the speed and let it hit the rev limiter and let the car manouver to where it wants to go or counter steer it. I can never seem to do that with my method. The wheels just grip too much and spins out of control even with little pedal effort. I know its not a problem with HP/TORGUE because no matter what car i try with little or too much hp its all the same. I'm thinking its because the car rolls from side to side, one side of the wheels lift up, basically you can still control the car while the car is in "lift" but once all the wheel has a grip you loose control.

so anyone out there using the weight shifting method to drift the car? Would like to know how do you do it? i was thinking, maybe it is a bit easier if we just hit the e-brake, let the car slide a bit and then the rest is just counter steering effort. what do you all think?
 
Brake gently to transfer the weight, turn in as the weight is coming forward and stab the throttle while the car is unbalanced from the combined braking and cornering motions. Feint a bit to the outside before the braking if you need to or want a higher angle. Bear in mind this is for low speed corners, high speed drifts are harder to get used to initiating.
 
Everything takeshiskunk said but i'll just add on/elaborate a little further.

TakeshiSkunk
Brake gently to transfer the weight
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Braking throws your car's weight forward and causes more traction & stress to the front tires vs. the rear

TakeshiSkunk
Turn in as the weight is coming forward
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This throws your car's weight to the outside diagonally (causing your rear to slip)

TakeshiSkunk
Stab the throttle while the car is unbalanced
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Stomping the gas will cause your rear tires to lose traction even further from this point. This is also the final nail to initiate the drift. Your next task would be to maintain it.
 
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cosmicgate, did you play with your suspension settings?

There's other ways you can initiate... Most wheel users I know use the "feint" method.

Keep constant throttle,
turn in the OPPOSITE direction of the corner,
let the weight shift.[you'll feel it in the wheel]
Once the weight has shifted, quickly turn INTO the corner.
All that weight you transferred will get thrown to the outside, making the rear unstable.
As the weight transfers outward, give just enough throttle to keep the car sliding.
If you did this right, as soon as the rear wheels start slipping, the wheel will begin counter steering.
This is the hard part.
You have to figure out how much steering angle to put in for whatever speed and drift angle the car is going.
On top of that, you have to balance steering input to throttle input.

Counter steer too much and the car will whip whatever direction the front wheels are faced.
Too much throttle and the rear end of your car will try to swing ahead of the front end.
Try to keep throttle changes to a minimum, and if you have to, do it smoothly.
You should be able to feel how much grip the front wheels have via the force feedback.

I hope that helped? Dunno how good I am at these kinda things..
 
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how about trying to lighten the car? and change the suspension to adjustable setting? try putting it in a lower gear before turn while braking, hit the ebrake and use constant throttle
 

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