Drifting

[PetrolHeadPete]

Hi All
Spent an hour watching various youtube vids of Nurburgring...various cars (watch the one of the fastest lap in Radical SR8 for ultimate jaw-dropper!). One thing that really was noticable is how NOT driftable TIVs are (Tuscan, T350, Griff all included). When the back starts to go there seems to be no way back...car swaps ends *almost* without warning and seemingly with little chance to catch it. Normally induced by trailing corner braking or throttle application out of corner.

Why so black-and-white ???? What could be done to make the thing more progressive ???

You can watch BMW after BMW (from 320 touring to M3s all happily wagging their back ends with impunity...big heavy lumps with lots of torque but ready to drift in the hands of seemingly anyone)

[PetrolHeadPete]

Guess could be traction control but things like caterham are the pups nuts and they are not so equipped
Sure they are very light but power to weight is not a million miles different

[PetrolHeadPete]

griffdude said:

Don't know about the Cerb & 'T' cars, but the Griff in my limited experience can be drifted & recovered from. Think it's to do with the more forgiving tyre sidewalls possibly. The 18" spiders have much lower profile tyres & possibly less compliant sidewalls giving a much less progressive breakaway?
http://youtu.be/__trOVKHwcs?t=1m25s

We'll caught !
It's not so vicious I agree...tire wall height is an interesting idea
What about rear camber setup?

[PetrolHeadPete]

That's the point exactly...hard to catch

Why ???