What is your driving style?

[Famine]

Originally posted by F.Zamataki
grip racing is waaayyy to easy and basic

*shrug*

Originally posted by F.Zamataki
i can do anything you can, and then some

As I said before, that clearly doesn't extend to typing, legibility or grammar.

 

[Dave A]

Originally posted by Famine
saying "grip racing is easy" just marks you out as a nob - if it's so easy, why aren't you the fastest GT3 driver on the planet?
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That was beautiful man.

 

[Drifting Thunda]

I do both. I learned on drifting way back when I was uneducated and now I've been concentrating on grip a lot. I think this path has helped me a LOT in the long run, now I can do both quite well, especially drift, but I still can improve on grip.

The hardest part about practicing grip is covering all the bases. By that I mean using basically every kind of car on every kind of corner on every course and whatnot, but I'm getting there. Ever since I picked up grip driving I pretty much stopped driving the GT-R34. That sure was one hell of a drifter for an AWD!

By the way, I've been focusing on using the Cobra R and GT40 for grip driving, that way I learn to deal with the occasional understeering AND oversteering of the Mustang, and the GT40 teaches me a lot of the basics. Civic Si is oddly enough another good grip teacher I think.

 

[Danny]

-NO-ONE DEFIES FAMINE-
The above is an unwritten law.

 

[Danny]

Originally posted by Rumple Foreskin
While there is nothing wrong with this thread, I am sure it will be closed on you.

We have tons of threads like this one and I am sure the mods will get you on this one.

Welcome to GTP and I drive grip BTW.

Not yet...

 

[Crayola]

I like to break really late and then slam the accelerator in an attempt not to go of the track, I hate going for perfect lines and ****, hit the walls if i have to but i usually dont.

 

[Crayola]

Originally posted by Drifting Thunda
The hardest part about practicing grip is covering all the bases. By that I mean using basically every kind of car on every kind of corner on every course and whatnot, but I'm getting there. Ever since I picked up grip driving I pretty much stopped driving the GT-R34. That sure was one hell of a drifter for an AWD!

Remind me to continually slap you until you go get your GT-R, make the springs a whole bunch harder and then learn to drive. If you think its a good drift car wait till you start driving it half-half. I think the proper term is 4-Wheel drift or something but basically brake later than normal accelerate sooner and try and control the oversteer as best you can. Its what my previous post was meant to say only I was lazy. I think its been discussed before and in some situations its faster. Obviously on big sweepers its not but you should be able to work that out.

 

[Drifting Thunda]

Excuse me, I managed a consistant 1'16.xxx on Laguna Seca with my all-around tuned R34, I can drive AWD, but only to the limits of AWD. AWD has what advantages again? Name them please.

There's very little AWD can do that RWD can't. RWD is almost an equally stable platform and understeer won't constantly haunt you.

To drive the GT-R I often used 4-wheel drifts and grip, because in reality all-wheel drifts are the only consistant drifts a AWD car can maintain. Pathetic.

"REAR-WHEEL DRIVE, THE WAY GOD HAD INTENDED IT TO BE."

 

[Danny]

Actually, God intended us to use horse and cattle. Guess we showed him

 

[Drifting Thunda]

Originally posted by ultrabeat
Actually, God intended us to use horse and cattle. Guess we showed him

 

[Crayola]

Originally posted by Drifting Thunda
Excuse me, I managed a consistant 1'16.xxx on Laguna Seca with my all-around tuned R34, I can drive AWD, but only to the limits of AWD. AWD has what advantages again? Name them please.

There's very little AWD can do that RWD can't. RWD is almost an equally stable platform and understeer won't constantly haunt you.

To drive the GT-R I often used 4-wheel drifts and grip, because in reality all-wheel drifts are the only consistant drifts a AWD car can maintain. Pathetic.

"REAR-WHEEL DRIVE, THE WAY GOD HAD INTENDED IT TO BE."

Im not talking about drifting as far as style is concerned, If you 4W-Drift well enough on some corners it is actually faster than grip racing. Also, Holding a AWD drift isnt that hard with Sim tires, you can get more angle then an RWD car ever will.

 

[Drifting Thunda]

On some corners aw drifts are undoubtedly somewhat faster, that includes some sweepers contrary to what you said (or so I think anyways...) When I ran my Laguna Seca times I did both grip and drift, and eventually I found what I believe to be a fairly close to perfect lap. As I said, I do both now.

Even with Super Softs you can get more angle than any FR, that's the whole advantage of AWD drifting--they can go more over and still recover, which accounts for their high speed sweeper ability that RWD doesn't have down pact quite as well. Even so, when trying to mix it up, the GT-R isn't as great as say the Lotus Esprit or Viper GTS (which I consider to be a crappy car btw), which both dominated my GT-R times with ease, also using both styles.

The AWD cars that certainly have my respect are the GSR and TME Lanevos, only because of the AYC. Even then, those cars don't have the kind of torque on demand I like. Maybe I said all that wrong, see, I still like the GT-R, and many other AWDs like S4, VR-4, etc., but I'm taking a break from them all for now.

I was just sayin it's my opinion that RWD is t3h best.

 

[Danny]

And IMO, hovering is the best

 

[ExigeEvan]

trolley steering is the best. 4 wheel steering.

 

[Drifting Thunda]

Hovering has horrible traction off the line and is prone to just keep going in the current direction when you cut the wheel hard.

The best is obviously a roller coaster, it is least prone to any type of understeer or oversteer!

 

[SupraFly]

Drift.

-Vash

 

[drifter115]

when im REALLY racing a friend or computer, i drift only when drifting makes me faster, such as a 2 turn chain. But for fun im a drifter

 

[tasadar24]

Drift, more fun and better looking on the replays.

It's rare that I don't oversteer a little in turns. But, my favored drivetrain is FR so go figure.

 

[tasadar24]

Whoa, Suprafly... thought you were just a gamefaqs user...

 

[DQuaN]

The difference in drifting between FR and AWD is that if you oversteer too much in FR you have to let of the throttle so the back end slows down. In AWD you plant the throttle and let the front wheels pull you out of it.

 

[DQuaN]

A quick question.... What is the wheelie trick i have seen all over the place, am i right in thinking all downforce on back and none on front? Sorry if this is the wrong thread but ive seen this subject everywhere and was not sure where to put it. An explination would be apreciated