Caterham has added two additional drift experience dates to its calendar: Saturday 30 September and Sunday 1 October, both at Silverstone. Places are going fast, reckons Caterham.
Caterham Motorsport Club drifting
New for this year, you can experience the awesome feeling of drifting a car sideways. The light weight, high power and great handling, the Seven is an ideal car in which to hone your drifting abilities. Spend the day looking out the side of the car as you gracefully slide the car around our specially designed drift courses.
An orientation and demonstration from our instructors will familiarise you with the cars and you will be taught to steer the car using the throttle. Initially you may find yourself spinning the car as you deliberately provoke power oversteer. You will then learn how to kick the tail out and hold the slide by balancing smooth steering and throttle inputs. There are few feelings more satisfying than controlling a drift and the ‘grin factor’ is simply off the scale.
The instructors will teach you both in groups and individually and Caterham guarantees that you will have drifted a car before the day is out. When your confidence has grown you change to a more challenging track layout designed to allow you longer drifts. There will be four courses, with the last giving you the opportunity to show off your new drifting abilities at a higher speed and through multiple corners.
The three best drifters of the day win prizes, but everyone leaves with a smile and improved driving skills.