Drifting First Timers
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- daft_biker
Could someone help me with how to drift with a controller. What to do, and how
and a list of what cars I could use
Thanks for your help!
Take a powerful rear wheel drive car, stick comfort hard tyres on it then try to drive it. I'm sure you'll figure it out from there as you'll be sideways in no time
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- powellx234
daft bikerTake a powerful rear wheel drive car, stick comfort hard tyres on it then try to drive it. I'm sure you'll figure it out from there as you'll be sideways in no time
Haha. That beats any I've seen here!
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- geti01
30 seconds after reading this post I found This. Theres a little thing called the FAQ, from there, there was a link "Useful Tips & Advice to help first timers." And I clicked that. 20 hours? No. A little bit of brain, not really. Is this a waste of a thread now? Yea, basically. Both the FAQ and the Useful Tips & Advice to help first timers. will help you.
How hard was that?
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- FRAG-ME-CG
Take a powerful rear wheel drive car, stick comfort hard tyres on it then try to drive it. I'm sure you'll figure it out from there as you'll be sideways in no time
Powerful? Stick to around 250-400.
But PLEASE use the goddamn resources.
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- LukeCannotSkate
''stupid answer''
True True :-)
.....I have a thread open where a few other drivers have posted tips... you might want to take a look
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- GTP_Stotty
My 1st post in the drifting forum!
I've always been a racer, but secretly, always wanted to be able to drift too. When I tried drifting in the past (GT2/3/4/5P/5) I could just about manage one corner, and in GT5, get the minimum score to get gold on the trails, but was always very inconsistent.
At the beginning of December I had major surgery on my shoulder, meaning I can't use my wheel for c.3-4 months, plus I had the best part of 4 weeks off work (including the Xmas holidays)... I had a load of free time and could only use the controller (which I never use for racing/TT's)... so I thought I'd teach myself to drift.
6 weeks later and I can now drift to a reasonable level... I can't tandem yet (not tried), I can't rip 30k runs at Tskuba yet, and I can't get in the top 100 of the drift trials... so I'm by no means accomplished, but I can take most reasonably powered FR cars and run mid 20's at Tsukuba and I can get in the top 2-300 in the trails with a 300ZX (last time I looked I was 205th at Fuji).
What did I do?
I taught myself in the 1 series Tii... reduced the weight, comfort hards, locked diff, shortened gears, and gradually upped the power as I got used to the way the car moves around as you come on and off the power. At the beginning, I found it an advantage to have the power level not too high... meaning I didn't have to vary throttle input too much once I'd got the car sliding. But now I'm using cars with 600+bhp.
You'll find with high powered cars you get a lot of 'wheelspin lag' (my own term
)... you exit the drift in a high gear with loads of spin/smoke and as you come off the gas to straighten the car the wheelspin takes a while to bleed off... which can fire you off in the wrong direction if you're not careful. Using a lower powered car (c.300bhp) means you need to use more gas/lower gears... and the exist and transitions are much easier to control.
For me, it wasn't an immediate skill... took me a good 4 weeks to start to be able to join corners up consistently rather than just pull one mega drift and then spin off! Learning the right entry speed was key (I'm not really in to handbrake entries, preferring to use a big scandinavian flick), after that the big surprise was just how much gas was needed to maintain the angle and how to get out of the drift without flicking back the wrong way.
IMO, you need to stick with comfort hards as in my experience, the stickier the compound the quicker the car regains grip and the less easy it is to manage the transitions.
At the end of the day it's just hours of practice... if you put the hours in you'll pick it up.
Good luck
I've always been a racer, but secretly, always wanted to be able to drift too. When I tried drifting in the past (GT2/3/4/5P/5) I could just about manage one corner, and in GT5, get the minimum score to get gold on the trails, but was always very inconsistent.
At the beginning of December I had major surgery on my shoulder, meaning I can't use my wheel for c.3-4 months, plus I had the best part of 4 weeks off work (including the Xmas holidays)... I had a load of free time and could only use the controller (which I never use for racing/TT's)... so I thought I'd teach myself to drift.
6 weeks later and I can now drift to a reasonable level... I can't tandem yet (not tried), I can't rip 30k runs at Tskuba yet, and I can't get in the top 100 of the drift trials... so I'm by no means accomplished, but I can take most reasonably powered FR cars and run mid 20's at Tsukuba and I can get in the top 2-300 in the trails with a 300ZX (last time I looked I was 205th at Fuji).
What did I do?
I taught myself in the 1 series Tii... reduced the weight, comfort hards, locked diff, shortened gears, and gradually upped the power as I got used to the way the car moves around as you come on and off the power. At the beginning, I found it an advantage to have the power level not too high... meaning I didn't have to vary throttle input too much once I'd got the car sliding. But now I'm using cars with 600+bhp.
You'll find with high powered cars you get a lot of 'wheelspin lag' (my own term
)... you exit the drift in a high gear with loads of spin/smoke and as you come off the gas to straighten the car the wheelspin takes a while to bleed off... which can fire you off in the wrong direction if you're not careful. Using a lower powered car (c.300bhp) means you need to use more gas/lower gears... and the exist and transitions are much easier to control.For me, it wasn't an immediate skill... took me a good 4 weeks to start to be able to join corners up consistently rather than just pull one mega drift and then spin off! Learning the right entry speed was key (I'm not really in to handbrake entries, preferring to use a big scandinavian flick), after that the big surprise was just how much gas was needed to maintain the angle and how to get out of the drift without flicking back the wrong way.
IMO, you need to stick with comfort hards as in my experience, the stickier the compound the quicker the car regains grip and the less easy it is to manage the transitions.
At the end of the day it's just hours of practice... if you put the hours in you'll pick it up.
Good luck
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- SHYAM_1337
StottyMy 1st post in the drifting forum!
I've always been a racer, but secretly, always wanted to be able to drift too. When I tried drifting in the past (GT2/3/4/5P/5) I could just about manage one corner, and in GT5, get the minimum score to get gold on the trails, but was always very inconsistent.
At the beginning of December I had major surgery on my shoulder, meaning I can't use my wheel for c.3-4 months, plus I had the best part of 4 weeks off work (including the Xmas holidays)... I had a load of free time and could only use the controller (which I never use for racing/TT's)... so I thought I'd teach myself to drift.
6 weeks later and I can now drift to a reasonable level... I can't tandem yet (not tried), I can't rip 30k runs at Tskuba yet, and I can't get in the top 100 of the drift trials... so I'm by no means accomplished, but I can take most reasonably powered FR cars and run mid 20's at Tsukuba and I can get in the top 2-300 in the trails with a 300ZX (last time I looked I was 205th at Fuji).
What did I do?
I taught myself in the 1 series Tii... reduced the weight, comfort hards, locked diff, shortened gears, and gradually upped the power as I got used to the way the car moves around as you come on and off the power. At the beginning, I found it an advantage to have the power level not too high... meaning I didn't have to vary throttle input too much once I'd got the car sliding. But now I'm using cars with 600+bhp.
You'll find with high powered cars you get a lot of 'wheelspin lag' (my own term
For me, it wasn't an immediate skill... took me a good 4 weeks to start to be able to join corners up consistently rather than just pull one mega drift and then spin off! Learning the right entry speed was key (I'm not really in to handbrake entries, preferring to use a big scandinavian flick), after that the big surprise was just how much gas was needed to maintain the angle and how to get out of the drift without flicking back the wrong way.
IMO, you need to stick with comfort hards as in my experience, the stickier the compound the quicker the car regains grip and the less easy it is to manage the transitions.
At the end of the day it's just hours of practice... if you put the hours in you'll pick it up.
Good luck
That post my friend, Was a great post. Thank you
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- Sparco--Smoke
My 1st post in the drifting forum!
I've always been a racer, but secretly, always wanted to be able to drift too. When I tried drifting in the past (GT2/3/4/5P/5) I could just about manage one corner, and in GT5, get the minimum score to get gold on the trails, but was always very inconsistent.
At the beginning of December I had major surgery on my shoulder, meaning I can't use my wheel for c.3-4 months, plus I had the best part of 4 weeks off work (including the Xmas holidays)... I had a load of free time and could only use the controller (which I never use for racing/TT's)... so I thought I'd teach myself to drift.
6 weeks later and I can now drift to a reasonable level... I can't tandem yet (not tried), I can't rip 30k runs at Tskuba yet, and I can't get in the top 100 of the drift trials... so I'm by no means accomplished, but I can take most reasonably powered FR cars and run mid 20's at Tsukuba and I can get in the top 2-300 in the trails with a 300ZX (last time I looked I was 205th at Fuji).
What did I do?
I taught myself in the 1 series Tii... reduced the weight, comfort hards, locked diff, shortened gears, and gradually upped the power as I got used to the way the car moves around as you come on and off the power. At the beginning, I found it an advantage to have the power level not too high... meaning I didn't have to vary throttle input too much once I'd got the car sliding. But now I'm using cars with 600+bhp.
You'll find with high powered cars you get a lot of 'wheelspin lag' (my own term
For me, it wasn't an immediate skill... took me a good 4 weeks to start to be able to join corners up consistently rather than just pull one mega drift and then spin off! Learning the right entry speed was key (I'm not really in to handbrake entries, preferring to use a big scandinavian flick), after that the big surprise was just how much gas was needed to maintain the angle and how to get out of the drift without flicking back the wrong way.
IMO, you need to stick with comfort hards as in my experience, the stickier the compound the quicker the car regains grip and the less easy it is to manage the transitions.
At the end of the day it's just hours of practice... if you put the hours in you'll pick it up.
Good luck
shhhh... don't worry we won't tell anyone your secret is safe with us hehe
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