speed??

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may seem trivial to all you pros out ther but what speed should i enter a turn at, be at during, and exit a turn at when im drifting. i can't get it right lol either i can't stay drifting for more than a few seconds or i fly off the turn and hit the wall :/

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of course, every turn is done differently.
if you want to drift a turn, u have to enter at a speed in which your rear tires break traction. or you can enter slowly and use the power over method...
 
the way i see it is; the faster you're coming into a corner, the earlier you should start sliding and/or setting up for the drift.
Take the main straight in grand valley,
in my Chaser i get up to about 157mph, then when the road bends uphill and to the left i start sliding left, causing my car to slow down to about 120/130, then as i switch my car over to the hairpin i hit the brakes and countersteer at the same time, this gives angle and slows you down at the same time, wich prevents sliding off the course after entering at a high speed.
 
Great advice from Zamataki. From another perspective, assuming you want to enter the corner at a specific point, if the car understeers and won't turn into the corner, then you are going too fast. If the car spins out or goes onto the grass on the inside of the corner, then you entered the corner too slow. Of course, all of this assumes you are using proper technique to start with. It just takes practice is all. Eventually you should be able to "feel" the entrance speed, rather than know it. For example, I can't look at a corner, even if it's one that I drift regularly, and say "you enter this corner at X speed." I don't concern myself with such details, to memorize the entrance speed of each and every corner would be

Also, I noticed in real life that you are entering the corner at almost exactly the same speed as if you were gripping. Unfortunately in GT3 you can't really feel the point where the tires begin to lose grip. Anyway, I enter the corner as if I was going to grip it, but I brake just a little bit early to give myself time to load the suspension, and a little hard to slow myself down just below optimum grip speeds. The more extreme your angle is, the slower your speed will need to be. Since your steering wheel can only countersteer so much, there is a certain minimum speed you must enter the corner at, otherwise you will not have enough speed to follow through at the exit.
 
Thats an awesome corner, in my Evo and Wrx, i enter at maybe...130 , as it bends up left i start to slide to the Right bank like...what seems to look like a 4 wheel drift you would see in like....Evo's from Initial D, then i just hit the brakes and it bends back and i go through that hairpin easy and and quick at maybe 70, pretty fast to me. But once i hit the pit or any part of the dirt the power over is just too much to pull back, but...it does look awesome
 

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