Basic Techniques Drifting

Drifting is a driving technique in which the driver attempted to make the car is in a tilted position and glide as long as possible. Usually, the drifter (drifting drivers) only use second gear and hand brake (hand brake) to demonstrate this high level of technique, because that is desperately needed certain skills and discipline that is high enough to be able to master the technique of driving like this

Currently drifting has become a professional sport that runs under the banner of D1 Grand Prix, but unfortunately, until now drifting yet to receive recognition from the FIA (a large umbrella for road race competition which oversees the racing car-racing events such cars F1, A1, F3 , F3000, Go Karting and World Rally)


Beginning
Drifting petengahan grown in Japan around the 1960s, pioneered underground motorsport circles, dubbed the rolling zoku. They practice the techniques of Opposite-lock was on the mountain road rally (touge) winding and slippery asphalt Rokkosan region, Hakone, Nagano and Irohazaka.

In the 1970s, Kunimitsu Takahashi, who is a legend of Japanese F1 drivers, get inspiration when he tried the front of his car following the apex (the point at the edge of a curve) with high speed and using the handbrake to follow the curve.

In 2001, Daijiro Inada (founder of Option Magazine and the Tokyo Auto Salon) with Keiichi 'Dorikin' (Drifting King) Tsuchiya (turing and also the drivers 'Mr Drifting Professional') create professional drifting competition series, D1 Grand Prix (D1 GP).



Type Car For Drifting
Usually the cars that were derived in a drifting event is weighted cars with mild to moderate type coupe / sedan and uses rear-wheel drive or FR (front engine, rear-wheel-drive) like the Nissan Skyline, Nissan Sylvia, Toyota Mark II Toyota Corolla DX, and Toyota Levin / Sprinter Trueno (AE86). Because the car for this type of power is always distributed by sliding the rear wheels, while the front wheel is used to control the car / drift.

But this time, no denying that the cars that use this type of all wheel drive FA (front engine, all-wheel-drive) Subaru Impreza WRX STI kind and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, and front-wheel drive FF (front engine, front-wheel -drive) will also go down in the drifting scene. The difficulty will be obtained when using a car with front-wheel drive or FF, where power and control at the front wheels so it's rather difficult to conquer a few corners at once.


Basic Techniques Drifting
Drifting technique is done by letting slip the rear tire with a larger flow than the front tires. This usually occurs when a car driven at high speed, and direction dibelokan without reducing the speed of the car. If the technique of drifting done incorrectly, can twist and cause the car to lose control. Therefore, the speed and angle of the bend should be taken as accurate.

There are two main techniques used by the drifter to create a movement that is clutching drift (using the clutch) and braking (the use of brakes). In the clutching technique, while car drivers approaching the bend, he will hit the clutch and move into second gear. Then the drivers will hit the gas until about 4500 rpm. When the clutch is released, there will be a strong rotation on the tires because it was the engine was racing. Major force behind this sudden make tires spin very fast to lose traction and the rear of the car will twist.

While the technique of braking, the driver pulled the emergency brake when entering the corner causing the rear tire locked and lost traction and creating a drift motion. This technique is the only technique that can be used to the cars front wheel drive (FWD). While for a car rear-wheel drive (RWD) has at least a dozen techniques. This is why more pro drifter who use the car rear wheel drive (RWD) to dibesut.

Here are some of the techniques commonly used when drifting.

Handbrake Drift
And at the same step on the clutch hand-brake is pulled to remove traction. When traction is lost, off the clutch and gas pedal is pressed while doing countersteering.

Power Slide
Condition need a car with a high powered machine. Membejek way only with gas pedal down and control the direction of the car with the steering wheel.

Shift Lock
Drifting by lowering the position of the teeth to be lower. This makes the tires lost traction lock.

Clutch Kick
Drifting in a way clutch kicking segingga cause shocks to the transmission and thus affects the balance of the car. This would make the car slidding.
Braking Drift



The trick when entering the corner step on the brake pedal so that the weight moves forward. Then direct the gas pedal dipijak rear tires lose traction so.

Feint / Scandinavian Flick
You do this by transferring the weight of the vehicle to the outside by rotating the wheel to the outside corner and with a sudden U-turn so that the rear wheel of the car shifted. This technique is like cornering a majority pereli way.

Calsonic / dynamic drift
Drifting by lifting the gas pedal at high speeds. This happens because when the gas pedal lifted weights moved from back to front.

When drift was created by doing the correct technique, then the next must be done is to keep the car under control. For this one needed the expertise of the driver in controlling the combination of gas and steering wheel.

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