Tuesday 21st April 2015

Mazda MX-5 drifting at Oulton: PHTV

PHer TeamMalbec and his MX-5 living the cheap oversteer dream!

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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?

 

[aww999]

I thoroughly enjoyed that! Is it extra-slippery tarmac to facilitate drifting, or is the car setup for it in some way?

[aww999]

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

Ah, a professional, eh? 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