First of all, if you guys are going to argue about what drifting is then first you have to define it. I posted this in a previous thread about 4 wheel drifting; maybe it can shed some light on the situation.
Drifting is that fine line of control just before an uncontrolled skid. In racing, a car is usually considered to be drifting when all of its wheels are slipping, but the front wheels are still more-or-less pointed in the direction of the corner, or at least straight. Beyond that, when the car gets more sideways and even harder to control, its sliding. Drifting is the fastest way through a corner, and makes full use of the tires capabilities. But sliding is not the fastest way. Although sliding sideways, with the tail of the car hanging out and the steering in full opposite lock, looks spectacular, its slow. And it causes excessive tire wear. (Taken from the GT2 manual and can be found here
http://www.geocities.com/go2initiald/main.html )
This is real race drifting. The stuff that we do here, where there is a very large drift angle is just sliding, but I still refer to it is as drifting.
i know how to drift thank you very much. I know that only idiots drift cars with slick tires in real life. And for the guy in the prelude... that would be a "power slide"... ask any real drifter.
No, that is not a power slide. A power slide is when you use the power of the engine to cause a loss of traction at the rear wheels, hence the "power". In an FF car you cannot do a power slide unless you want to understeer into a wall or curb. Pulling the E-brake has a very similar effect as a power slide but it is not the same thing. Drifting with an FF car is possible. At race speed it is possible to cause oversteer by lifting off the throttle. This will lift weight off the rear wheels and cause them to lose traction slightly; the drift or slip angle can then be adjusted by adding gas or not. Left foot braking can also be used to cause oversteer and control understeer like LanEvo mentioned. Hitting the E-brake and counter steering, or just flooring it, will put you into a slide or an exhibition drift, thats the stuff we talk about here; most of the time.
As for idiots with slick tires, well did it ever occur to you that maybe they don't want to change their tires every day? A harder tire will provide less traction but it will last a lot longer than a soft sticky one, not to mention that each tire will be significantly less expensive. The only difference in the drift will be that the car with harder tires will be moving slower, thus making it safer and maybe a little easier to control. Also it will be much easier to drift a lower powered car with lower grip tires.
Now that we are getting back on the subject of tires, I myself prefer sim tires since they simulate real life tires best. In fact they probably simulate high grip tires in real life not low grip one like you are thinking superb doriftoo. The sticky tiers in the game have much more traction than in real life, more than is physically possible, making that type of drifting unrealistic, but fun since its a lot faster. I often like to drive a 700 hp Rx-7 with medium tires; actually I drift so much I cant really grip drive anymore, so in races I often end up drifting many of the corners, which usually slows me down but its still faster than the AI.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19103&highlight=wheel+drift
Here is the thread about 4 wheel drifting and drifting in general there is some more good info in there.
i drift my FF car. i own a '98 Prelude VTEC. in order to drift it...i have to use the handbrake to swing the rear around, then release the hand brake, and by this time i've already downshift to 2nd or whichever gear is necessary, pop the clutch, the front tires begin to spin and pull the car around the turn with the rear end at a slight angle. to control understeer i use my left foot for the brake(not e-brake, but normal) the whole time with the gas floored.
