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Originally Posted by fatoni
i dont get why people differentiate an ebrake slide with a drift.
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Because they are totally different dynamics. In a drift the car is understeering BUT in a state of yaw. (yaw is measured in degrees of rotation at each end around an objects center point vs its direction of travel)
In a drift, after the car rotates to face the exit direction, you balance and maintain yaw while pushing the front tires into the apex with the rear.
It is the act of "pushing" the sliding car down, through the apex and to track out that really defines a drift and it is a very nice feeling and looks quite different if you have the eye for it, they are completely different techniques.
You can use the E-brake to increase your lateral acceleration and ROTATE the car ..but once the angle is set and you have rotated the car you shouldn't be using the e-brake anymore, you need power from the rear wheels to keep the center line of the car facing inside, slipping just enough to keep the car accelerating "sideways" while pushing the front tires down the track
if you mess it up, you will rotate the car more, and have to counter.
This is what I like to call Crab walking, which you see a lot in Formula D.
Essentially oversteer is whenever rear slip exceeds front slip. It doesnt have to mean tail out. You want oversteer ONLY to "rotate" the car, then once its pointed inside, you want it to be neutral and to push the car through. If you hit understeer, the center line of the car will rotate back toward the outside, if you hit oversteer the center line of the car will rotate more inside and you will have to counter again and crabwalk.
It is possible to get this done in a FWD ..but you cant get that balance of "rear push" and rear slip on asphalt easily, in rally they do a pretty damn good job on low traction surfaces. Because the grip is so low the rear end can slip a lot more without use of the handbrake and weight transition alone.
So while people refer to "drifting techniques" As things like "Ebrake" "Shift lock" "power over" "Braking drift" or w/e else your Option videos want to call it. These are just drifting "techniques" they are techniques for "starting" a drift. Once it is started, you have to do what I have been describing to make it an actual drift. Essentially all drifting is the same , the differences only come down to how you start rotating the car, after you have rotated the car ..its as simple as finding out how you can keep your car neutral and every car is different.