These different drifting techniques are different ways to make a FWD car lose traction and perform a drift maneuver. The feign technique is when the driver enters a corner at a high rate of speed and turns the steering wheel about five degrees in the opposite direction to transfer the weight of the car. After the feign, the driver turns the wheel a quarter-turn in the same direction of the turn and pulls the handbrake to break traction to the rear wheels.
At the same time, they will need to steer and counter-steer the car in the middle of the turn to get it to drift. The braking drift is just like the feign drift with the exception of using the handbrake. Understeer is often a dreaded outcome for race car drivers. This normally takes racing drivers off their preferred racing line and they inevitably lose precious seconds. In more pedestrian situations, understeer is a more normal dynamic for FWD cars as a heavy engine sits atop the driven wheels and causes a weight transfer when cornering.
This, just like race cars, pushes the car out toward the edges of the corner rather than propels it around. However, that only occurs if the driver continues to apply the throttle. If the driver lifts off the accelerator, two things can happen. The front wheels of the car will just try to pull the car straight again and you'll have to steer exactly where you want to go. If you don't release the handbrake in time, you will spin. If done right, eventually you will center the wheel and straighten the car.
Throughout the turn, keep the accelerator at a constant position, but you can apply a litle more throttle on the exit if you think you are spinning out. One hand should always be on the handbrake, with the button depressed, so you will have to turn with one hand.
The sudden slide is a little hard to control on the first few tries and requires quick reflexes. And, as stated earlier, a continuous slide around the whole corner, like those done with rear-wheel-drive cars, is not possible with a front-driver.
Pulling the handbrake to turn around a long radius corner will actually worsen your cornering time in most cases, so it is not a technique for road racing. But it can save you if speeding and understeering off a cliff is eminent.
The only rear-wheel-drive cars available nowadays are either impractical roadsters, exotic sports cars or overweight luxury cars.
There are a number of well-balanced front-wheel-drive cars available that are actually easy to drive fast around corners. Do note that not all front-wheel-drive cars are suitable for oversteering. Many cars, like the Infiniti G20 and Chevy Monte Carlo, are set up to understeer, sometimes aggressively so, because understeer is generally easier to control than oversteer for inexperienced motorists.
The methods described here only serve as a general guide and will have to be adjusted according to the car you drive. There are other techniques too, such as left-foot braking and the pendulum drift, but these are harder and require their own space for discussion. On a cautionary note, sliding a car not set up with substantial bracing might cause your car to fall apart! Practice on gravel, grass or in the rain, in an open area.
Then adapt your car and your driving to handle the tarmac. Tags: front wheel drive drifting , front wheel drive drifting techniques , fwd drift , fwd drifting , fwd how to drift. Left foot Breaking Once again I would like to thank Mordernracer. A severe problem affecting most front-drivers is understeer during fast cornering. Understeer generally means that during cornering at a high speed, the car has a tendency to keep moving straight and to the outer edge of the curving road rather than the direction in which you are pointing the car.
To cancel out understeer, there should be more grip at the front wheels than at the rear. The left-foot braking technique more or less helps you to do just that. When approaching a corner, you should start slowing down like you normally do, using your right foot to apply the brake.
At this point, you can use the heel-and-toe maneuver and downshift to the proper gear. Now, you should move your right foot over to the accelerator and your left foot to the brake at the same time. You are now ready to perform left-foot braking.
Continue slowing the car down to a reasonable - but not too low - speed by applying the brakes with your left foot. As you are about to turn into the corner, hit the gas with your right foot and keep braking with your left foot at the same time. Being a front-wheel-drive, the rear wheels will lock while the front wheels keep moving. The car's weight is transferred to the front, causing the front wheels to have more grip than the rear wheels. The car now starts to oversteer.
Now you have to keep the car in control by steering in the direction that you want to go, and applying more or less throttle and braking as needed. You have to use both your pedals at the same time, which will take practice. Lifting off the accelerator will cause more oversteer and flip out the car's rear even more.
Applying more throttle while easing off the brakes will reduce oversteer and straighten out the car. Keep performing this balancing act to smoothly clear the corner at high speed, all the while making little corrections to your steering. At the end of the corner, just floor it and power out. When you get good at this technique, you should be able to just keep the accelerator completely floored and keep the car moving in your preffered direction using just your brake pedal and steering wheel.
Understeer is eliminated if done correctly and you clear the corner at a higher speed than in normal driving. The trick is to keep practicing braking with the left foot and learn to apply the brakes as well with the left foot as with the right. With a typical race-car gearbox, you can even start your initial braking with your left foot instead of your right without having to use the clutch pedal.
When braking, you can blip the throttle between the gear change. Most normal gearboxes cannot cope with such abuse and so it is generally better not to even think about trying such a move with your commuter car unless you have deep pockets to foot the resulting repair bill!
Also keep in mind that many upmarket cars are equipped with computer-controlled stability systems that will help you to safely keep a car in control during high speed cornering. But with practice, you can control a car better with the stability system turned off and turn at an even higher speed.
Comment Post Cancel. Lesson 3, The E-break is your friend. Some colorful folks even call it a bootlegger's hairpin. In effect, it is essentially a U-turn done in the space of two lanes of road without resorting to tedious three-point turns. It is a very easy technique. However, to do it safely and accurately takes practice.
A Kia Rio will be just as effective as a Chevy Corvette. To pull off this maneuver, drive along at about 30 to 35 mph, in first or second gear. Too slow and you won't be able to complete a Any faster and you will start going backwards after you complete the turn.
The exact speed depends on road conditions and the type and condition of tires on your car. Position one hand on the steering wheel in a way that will allow you to quickly turn it one full circle. This basically means that, on a left-hand-drive car, you place your left hand on the right side of the steering wheel, ready to flick the wheel around quickly.
The exact positioning will depend on which way you want to turn. Also, with a manual car, keep one hand on the handbrake with the release button already pressed but with an automatic, shift into neutral first, then get ready with the handbrake.
Now, the key here is to start turning before you pull the handbrake. Ease off on the accelerator, floor the clutch or in the case of an automatic, go into neutral and quickly yank the steering wheel smoothly either left or right or on whichever side you have more space to make a turn until it locks.
A split second after you start turning, quickly yank the handbrake lever or, as with most American cars, apply the foot-operated e-brake , locking the rear wheels completely. At this point, you will start rotating and really feel the lateral G building up.
As you are rotating, you should gradually bring your steering wheel to the center again and straighten out your front wheels.
In the end, you will more or less be facing the opposite direction, at a complete stop, or moving backwards slowly. You can judiciously apply the normal foot brake or not at all to control the end of the rotation precisely and stop moving backwards.
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