This.Almost everybody drifts at high rpm. What you see is the slow server. It's not fast enough to show the rpm changes while a car is drifting, that's it
I wondered that because yesterday I saw Gauz on Fuji and he was in 5th @ 2500rpm on the last corner of the D1 section (even with 750hp it was kinda surprising).
I thought about the low looking revs in lobbys and came to a decision that its not that its slow servers.
You know if you have good andle at say 60 mph and it says 20 mph. The rev gauge is clocked to the speedometer.
If you dont understand ill try to explain better.
Almost everybody drifts at high rpm. What you see is the slow server. It's not fast enough to show the rpm changes while a car is drifting, that's it
In my opinion, it depends more of the car than the driver. Take the AE-86 as exemple, even at 9k rpm on the 2nd and 3rd gears it still spamming lots of torque.
Otherwise some other cars after get the top rpm, it cuts the torque and regain the grip, what is awfull for a drift line.
And some cars cannot sustain low rev and still sending torque to the wheels. Right now i remember my Z4, witch is smooth on the 4th gear but stills sending the right ammount of torque to keep drifting. But taking again the AE-86 as exemple, if you engage the wrong gear while drifting, youre simply screwed because the engine will barely die.
RufusGonePunkDifferent cars, different driving styles. Two cars I've been using quite a lot lately are the Lexus SC430 and the Honda S2000.
The Lexus has a 4.3 litre V8 with ~550hp and huge amounts of torgue, will pull in any gear and hence I find myself taking hairpins in 3rd at 3000rpm, then going right up the rev range to about 7000rpm. I find it pretty lazy to be honest! Haha.
The S2000 on the other hand is a 2 litre (?) turbo'd VTEC, meaning all the power and torque comes at about 5500rpm, meaning I'm forever changing gear in it. But, to me it's more enjoyable, know that if I let the revs drop too much it'll bog and I'll have to change down or lose momentum. It's a lot more work, but I find it more rewarding consequently. For example, earlier today I was doing the Fuji D1 section with it and had to change from 5th to 4th midway through the first corner as it was starting to bog, even at those high speeds.
In my opinion, it depends more of the car than the driver. Take the AE-86 as exemple, even at 9k rpm on the 2nd and 3rd gears it still spamming lots of torque.
Otherwise some other cars after get the top rpm, it cuts the torque and regain the grip, what is awfull for a drift line.
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