Here is a in car point of view video of a ride along with Chris Forsberg in his NOS Energy Drink Nissan 370Z on Hankook Tires around Formula Drift's Road Atlanta 2013 course.
This sort of footage is absolute gold for people who want to actually improve their drifting. Which is why Best Motoring has always included great interior footage, but this is brilliant on another level because all the requirements (pedals, e-brake, perspective of the car's angle and path of travel, and RPM) are visible together in one shot, not cut into separate cameras.
This was fantastic; as someone who likes to think of themselves as a driver this was a very cool perspective! Please do more of these, seeing where you're spotting apexes, and track outs in a drift format like this is very cool.
I will try a forehead style mount the next time. This was located on my chin just below my eye port. I can not put the camera to the side because of my Hans style Recaro seats!
EndOfReturnity is mostly right. The wheel will countersteer itself when a drift car is properly setup. However our steering racks do not "steer" 50% more than a factory one. More like 10% more... the rest of the angle is made from modifying the steering pickups on the knuckles which will add from 5 to 20 degrees of steering angle depending on how you do it. I like a lot of steering travel so I can be more precise with my steering correction. Less travel would make a faster steering front end.
Chris Forsberg Man that Motor sounds so good!!!!! The mid range sounds so strong what engine was you running at the time of this video? Was it a lsx or what?
That is all throttle modulation. You can hear it hit the limiter briefly in the exit of the last turn because it looses a little traction on the rumble strips.
Awesome, and nice talking to you at club loose yesterday, might need more info on that hydraulic brake t fitting setup to still have rear brake use through the pedal
SASraceCAM When you drift, it is fatal to look out the front because you don't know where you're going. It is human nature that wherever you look, you will go that way. Happens a lot of time in racing games. You look at a car in traffic while racing and inevitably slam into it. Same principles here, when you're drifting, look out the driver's or passenger's windows to see where you're going and make a better judgement call as to what to do next.
shan_rocks I ride a motorcycle amd i drive (2) cars. You can look in front,and you probably should,because looking through side windows ain't gonna tell you how much distance is between you and car infront. So watch on every direction,but dont do * TARGET FIXATION* Its basically when you lock onto looking at road line,or you lock looking into apex of the curve.
Not really, very fine degrees of adjustment are required for corrections to path of travel and to rotate the car when off the throttle. Especially when you consider many professional drift cars have steering racks that can reach 50% higher wheel angle than street cars, and that the wheel basically turns itself when your drifting and the car is set up correctly, the amount of lock in the column is not excessive.
it's more in the suspension/front setup thats make it spin over so easy, and throttle controll. When you're sliding around you cant keep up with your hands its just sketchy, much smoother to let the front wheels balance out by them self and then add small inputs. that's why the steering wheel is rolling around so easily
I'm just getting into drifting. can somebody please explain to me what that large iron pole is for, next to the shifter and explain how it works? thank you
+Leo Catalan no, drivers use that giant e-brake because it's easier to use than a smaller one. When it comes to this sport it is all about reaction time. So, a huge and easier-to-grab handbrake is a lot more useful. Also, just in case you didn't know what a handbrake is, it is a brake used to get the car sideways alot easier and faster than using the steering to get sideways.
+Laos Nurburg I know what an E Brake is, and I know what it does, I know about drifting but I'm,just getting into formula drift, thank you though that explains allot, I know all aspects of drifting I just didn't know that was a extended E Brake
