RE: Mazda MX-5 drifting at Oulton: PHTV
Tuesday 21st April 2015
Mazda MX-5 drifting at Oulton: PHTV
PHer TeamMalbec and his MX-5 living the cheap oversteer dream!
Mazda MX-5 Drifting At Oulton Park
How have we reached this point without an MX-5 featuring on PHTV? Fear not, that significant oversight has been addressed now. And it's a good'n!
It comes from a Mazda MX-5 Owners' Club meet at the Oulton Park rally stage, the latter as used in an Autocar Sideways Challenge or two. Perfect combo then... And it's a job very well done, the MX-5 artfully slithered from bend to bend in some very big skids. Top work!
Anyone have anything better?
Discussion
aww999 said:
I thoroughly enjoyed that! Is it extra-slippery tarmac to facilitate drifting, or is the car setup for it in some way?
Both. -The surface is indeed a special low grip one (think I read somewhere that it's concrete/glass composite).
-The car was specially prepared for the event by i) pumping up the rear tyres a bit and ii) installing the rather natty yellow G-ball you see in the hole where the ash tray used to be
t. ma9mwah said:
Great!I didn't have to be forced to sit through an ad either!
TeamMalbec said:
aww999 said:
I thoroughly enjoyed that! Is it extra-slippery tarmac to facilitate drifting, or is the car setup for it in some way?
Both. -The surface is indeed a special low grip one (think I read somewhere that it's concrete/glass composite).
-The car was specially prepared for the event by i) pumping up the rear tyres a bit and ii) installing the rather natty yellow G-ball you see in the hole where the ash tray used to be
Nice driving, I should get around to doing it myself someday as sliding more than two or three corners on a trackday leads to black flags 
TeamMalbec said:
Both.
-The surface is indeed a special low grip one (think I read somewhere that it's concrete/glass composite).
-The car was specially prepared for the event by i) pumping up the rear tyres a bit and ii) installing the rather natty yellow G-ball you see in the hole where the ash tray used to be
What diff are you running?-The surface is indeed a special low grip one (think I read somewhere that it's concrete/glass composite).
-The car was specially prepared for the event by i) pumping up the rear tyres a bit and ii) installing the rather natty yellow G-ball you see in the hole where the ash tray used to be
hodgre said:
Do you know what's in those ominous looking black barriers/artificial chicanes on the track?
I didn't notice them when driving past to a trackday there yesterday
Hay bales, I think. They were there to stop us carrying too much speed into certain corners, which was probably a good idea to be honest.I didn't notice them when driving past to a trackday there yesterday
TeamMalbec said:
JamesYates said:
What diff are you running?
Just the standard TorSen jobbie.It turned out that it was actually an open diff, so some rotter must have pinched the factory fitted Torsen before I bought it. But it does show that slidey slidey dorifto is still easy in an open-diffed MX5 providing the surface is slippy.
Having made the alarming discovery about the diff I have since procured and fitted the correct factory spec 4.3 ratio torsen and all is well with the world.
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