High Power Drifting
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i drift a 700bhp srt-10 and a fully tuned supra an r33 skyline
Because it has more HP so more likely the car spin also the speed is much and much higher then the 300 hp toys and difficult to have the good speed entering the corner most of the time they are heavier but thats always what i thought correct me if im wrong 
Smokey : Nice jeah i drive the same cars (love the supra) I like the mustang also and the option Z car
Smokey : Nice jeah i drive the same cars (love the supra) I like the mustang also and the option Z car
high hp cars are so much easier to drift compared to stock cars. they will have the speed, and power to make long drifts. where as stock cars dont, so you have to change how you handle the car if you want it to do what high hp cars can do.
some people can take stock cars where only modified cars have been known to go. now THOES people are the talanted ones.
some people can take stock cars where only modified cars have been known to go. now THOES people are the talanted ones.
I go the same way as Swift on this one. I've always found that people with high-HP cars had the easy way in drifting, especially when I watch Formula D. I scoff at Samuel Hubinette and his SRT-10 viper, and the fact that people like him win just because their cars have a horsepower excess.
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I drift a 770hp Shelby Cobra and it is alot of fun.
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Exactly 👍
It's not that High hp cars don't take skill. But for finese, angle and of course looking cool I like mid range hp.
300hp isn't a "toy" at all. It depends on the wieght of the car. In a lighter car, 300hp could be the same as 900hp in a viper. It's all relative
I have to agree of some things i see it in a otherperspective but i dont change my mind i can drive low hp cars np but its just more fun going fast and ofcorse there is a relitive your right on that..But still i just like exotic fast cars well anyway thanks for the opinions i would say pedal to the metal...drift onnnnn 
but i dont change my mind i can drive low hp cars np but its just more fun going fast and ofcorse there is a relitive your right on that..But still i just like exotic fast cars well anyway thanks for the opinions i would say pedal to the metal...drift onnnnn 
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From my experience, both low power, mid, and high powered cars need the same skills, the real issue with low powered cars is that you need momentum instead of power to carry the drift through (which also goes for FF cars, but that's another topic... which I tend to avoid touching with a ten-foot pole...) as well as initiate the drift. And since drifting ultimately depends on how you get the car sideways, or break the rear free, most people (me included ) will say that drifting low-hp is harder.
I do find it a tad bit harder to control high hp cars going out of a drift. Control is easier going out of the drift with low-powered ones, as they gain traction easily, and never tend to go too fast anyway. The throttle's fully open most of the time on low HP, but you really need precise controls for the high powered ones.
I've drifted the Option Stream Z (tuned to 900... or so I remember...), Hella fun to drift! You can lose traction from the get-go, good for cars going into slow corners at 30-40kph
) will say that drifting low-hp is harder.I do find it a tad bit harder to control high hp cars going out of a drift. Control is easier going out of the drift with low-powered ones, as they gain traction easily, and never tend to go too fast anyway. The throttle's fully open most of the time on low HP, but you really need precise controls for the high powered ones.
I've drifted the Option Stream Z (tuned to 900... or so I remember...), Hella fun to drift! You can lose traction from the get-go, good for cars going into slow corners at 30-40kph
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To me, high-powered drifting is just as fun as drifting stock cars. They just need pretty much different techniques.
For example, let's compare Lotus Elise 111R and Gran Turismo R34 GT-R.
Elise weights around 700kg's, and has 200bhp+. Mid engined too, and best stock drifter I know. Little bit of weight shifting via scandinavian flick ( which was fatal to Hamster in latest Top Gear
) and feathering the throttle and I can pull long, steady drifts on corners on any track.
Gran Turismo GT-R, most powerful of them all, packs mighty 938bhp, delivering them to tarmac via AWD, and weights almost twice as much as Elise with stage 3 weight reduction. Despite advanced drivetrain and mountain of power and torque, it needs tyre staggering in order to keepi it neatly in control. With this car you can re-live the behaviour of group B rallycars, that were controlled with throttle. its pretty fun, when you can initiate drift at any speed with turning the wheel and burying the throttle..
btw, try to guess which one I prefer..
For example, let's compare Lotus Elise 111R and Gran Turismo R34 GT-R.
Elise weights around 700kg's, and has 200bhp+. Mid engined too, and best stock drifter I know. Little bit of weight shifting via scandinavian flick ( which was fatal to Hamster in latest Top Gear
) and feathering the throttle and I can pull long, steady drifts on corners on any track.Gran Turismo GT-R, most powerful of them all, packs mighty 938bhp, delivering them to tarmac via AWD, and weights almost twice as much as Elise with stage 3 weight reduction. Despite advanced drivetrain and mountain of power and torque, it needs tyre staggering in order to keepi it neatly in control. With this car you can re-live the behaviour of group B rallycars, that were controlled with throttle. its pretty fun, when you can initiate drift at any speed with turning the wheel and burying the throttle..
btw, try to guess which one I prefer..
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lol im completely the opposite. I think Low powered cars are easy to drift with a good setup. High powered cars spin to much for me and awd is damn nearly impossiable for me.
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There's a level where power is a disadvantage. You can drift, of course, but you can't follow the racing line because the excesive power disturbs the driver. So you're drifting to nowhere.
With a low powered car, the skill is in making the car to drift.
With a high powered car, the skill is in following the lines and drifting speeds as it was a low powered car. (big power output disturbs driving in braking drifts, thus the lower drift speed).
This is my point of view. I really care the speed in drifting, other people just want to go sideways.
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What i think is that low powered drifting takes intuation where to brake, to hit the proper speed at the proper moment. High powered is sort of the same but you can drift much more earlier and can control the car much more easier with the with faster rev points. Also angle is much more extreme with faster HP.
sorry to break it to you, but your wrong. hp has nothing to do with angle. esp in real life. in gt4 you can only go so far, once you pass this limit theres no going back. once you pass the limit, you cannot stay on the intended line, nor do you keep your speed up. in real life, angle is depentant on the steering angle of a car. lets take this extreme example, you have a funny car, or top fuel car and put it against one of the D1's AE86's that has GOBS of steering angle and under 190 hp. who will win? the AE86 of course. power means nothing if you cannot control it.
yes, you may be able to push a certian angle faster with more hp, but you cannot get more angle with more hp.
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