Is drifting, drifting??

[Mad RS]

I don't know. For a while I have been seeing a trend in drifting that had me complexed.

I seem to keep asking the question "How and why was the driving style called drifting begin?". It is my understanding that drifting was a technique used to traverse a corner in the fastest maner possible. For example the car is setup before the corner to hopefully gain the maximum exit speed possible. A technique that used minimal braking and fast entry speeds. Not like typical point to point curcuit racing that has to preserve tyres and fuel.

Lately it seems to be all about smoke and maximum angle. I don't know about everyone else but I am just a little bored with big smoke. Like hell, Josh had to go turbo

Sure as an exhibition it is great but I think there is something missing. Has anyone thought of having some sort of race. A race where the fastest time wins, not the biggest angle, the most smoke but the outright fastest car. This would promote cars that are light and have minimal power.

What do the public think??? Has the essence of drifting been lost???????

[samuel]

hahahaha!

[ToySprinta]

Its a good idea in theory, but i didn't think drifting was the fastest way round a track.

[xsoarerx]

i think if it was to go to something like that, then you would end up back at normal racing, if fastest lap times decided the outcome it would make more sence to jsut drive grip than slip.

they should build tracks for specially designed for drift, i know that wont happen in amillion years but it would be good to see a track that puts high and low powered cars on a level feild, maybe they should run drift comps on mountian runs, theres a few around.

[Mad RS]

Yeah maybe fastest way around a corner wasn't the best choice of words.

Maybe fastest way from point A to point B. I would be really interested to see if the same car could say get from the Start line at QR to the begining of the dipper using a 'grip' technique (ie heavy braking and no loss of traction) or using the original 'drift' technique (ie least amount of braking and a slight oversteer entry to a corner).

I think just the slight reduction in braking and thus faster entry speed would prove to be slightly faster.

[20vtouge86]

What i've heard: Keiichi Tsuchiya was winning by so much in his races that he started showing off drifting some corners OR that he started drifting certain corners to carry more speed through the corner.

Yes you can drift some corners faster than gripping a corner
Take for instance you had an under powered car uphill around a 180degree bend, if you braked you'd lose speed if you threw it around the corner you could keep your speed

There is a difference between show drift (D1 style) and racing drift (touge style)
One is to impress the judges with angle, speed, apex hugging and engine sound
the other is to carry more speed through a corner

[RB20DET_Silvia]

That is correct Keiichi Tsuchiya used it to carry more speed and higher RPM on the exits of the corners and he also done it to get more people attention to racing.

Keiichi Tsuchiya may not be the best drifter to day but he sure is the main man.....he made drift what it is today.

- Luke

[Blown86]

Lol at the drift and grip comparisons.

Anyone that thinks real circuit racing isn't the ulimate form of drift has no idea.

[E V A N]

I can tell u that on a really tight downhill corner that a lil bit of oversteer is faster.. that is all

[Mad RS]

I guess that what I am getting at is that it would be great to see some style of touge racing. A race that is short enough that tyre wear isn't an issue but long enough to get an outcome.