Other drift techniques.

Acceleration Turn
In order to start drifting you first must learn to get your car to slide out. If you start from a stand still and turn the wheel to full lock, increase the revs and drop the clutch, the car will spin in the direction you turned it. The important part of this is dropping the clutch. If you let the clutch out too slow, the rear wheels will not spin up, and your front tyres will slide. This will put a considerable amount of stress on the transmission so it may be better to practice on a wet day when the road is slippery. Another way to lighten the stress on the transmission is rather than dropping the clutch, start off slowly and then put the foot to the floor and slide the car out.

Ovals
This technique is excellent for getting a feel for under steer and over steer. Using the acceleration turn technique, try to keep a circle going by counter steering. You will gradually be able to control it well. Once you've got the hang of it, place a cone down and drift around the cone, making the circle smaller and bigger, maintaining control of the car at all times. You may have trouble at first, and there are 2 main causes for this:

1. Spin out - You may be spinning out because you are counter steering too late. Smooth acceleration also helps to keep more control so try not to accelerate roughly

2. Under steer - Under steer is worsened if the rear tyres have more grip than the front, so at this stage you should have higher grip tires on the front. Again, smooth acceleration helps to prevent under steer. It just takes time to get the feel of it.

Handbrake Turn
Set up a cone for you to practice with. Try this in first gear. As you head towards the cone, turn the wheel. At this point put your foot on the clutch and pull up the handbrake, and once the car starts to slide out, take your foot off the clutch, and let off the handbrake. Also light braking will help control the drift, but you must find a good balance. Braking too strong will bring on under steer. Also, to help with your handbrake turn technique, some good brake pads will help.

Power slide
This is also a technique to help you get used to sliding your car out. This is quite hard to do without good LSD. Firstly, grip it into the corner until the apex and then at the exit of the corner put your foot to the floor and slide the rear out. By the time you have finished counter steering, you should be at full throttle. This will help to return counter steer smoothly.

Handbrake Drift
This is a basic technique where you can begin to drift from the approach of the corner. When you come to the approach of the corner spin the wheel, and at the same time pull up the handbrake. Pulling up the handbrake will lock up the rear tyres, so don't forget to put in the clutch too. As you gradually get better you can increase your speed and pull up the handbrake further from the corner, and lengthen the distance that the rear slides. Better pads will help with this technique too.

Clutch Kick
This is the simplest technique. With your foot still on the accelerator, kick the clutch, and the will cause a sudden increase of power at the wheels and the tyres will spin up. This is often used in the middle of a drift to get the revs up again. It is also used together with the handbrake to increase the angle, and the distance of the drift. This is a very effective technique, but puts a lot of stress on the transmission.

Braking Drift
First move all of the weight of the car to the front, by braking. Then spin the wheel hard. This will cause the rear wheels to slide. Now accelerate to continue the drift. You must increase your speed into the corner to do this. The faster you are going, the easier the tyres spin up and the easier it is to continue the drift on. Adjusting your settings for this will help to make this easier. Even just changing the pads will make it feel better.



Important: We don't take responsibility if you might want to drift on the public road. It might seem fun, but It is illegal.

Opposite lock.

Also known as: Counter steer

What is it used for?
The oppposite lock technique is used to control a car which is drifting/sliding.

How do you do it?
Initiate a drift using the Scandinavian Flick, now by turning the steering wheel away from the corner, you can prevent the car from spinning out. The degree of counter-steer required depends on the following variables:

1) the speed at which the drift was initiated,
2) the angle at which the car is drifting,
3) the amount of power which is available throughout the slide, and
4) the desired angle for the remainder of the drift.

The Scandinavian Flick.

Also known as: Finnish Flick, Manji Drifting and Pendulum turn.

What is it used for?
The Scandinavian flick is a technique used to cause a front wheel drive car to oversteer.
This technique is used often in the rally world.

How do you do it?
While approaching a corner turn the steering wheel in the opposite direction to the turn and lifting your foot off the accelerator pedal, you should be sliding slightly sideways away from the corner.
Then turn the steering wheel towards the corner and press down on the accelerator pedal.
You should be sliding into the bend if you applied this technique correctly.
You should now make use of the counter-steer/opposite-lock techique to control the slide of the car.