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I agree entirely. A properly setup car with a driver who knows what he is doing has no need for high yaw or drift.

If you read the whole thread it is addressed. It is something to consider if you are driving a car with squishier tires or bad setup. You shouldn't have one standard of driving, every car is different.

My favorite response is how lateralizing the car "promotes confidence". In some situations, if you can put your self in a better mindset to attack a corner ...and if drift helps you do that (like rally, thats the only reason they slide so much is it gives you more variability in correcting your mistakes)

Drifting can be consistently fast and provide you with more options if you make a mistake, but is never optimal or FASTEST for the best time. Everybody knows that. But depending on who you are and the situation, "you" might drive the car faster with a drift, than fudging out an ideal grip line.

If you feel you need to do that ..because there is a low grip patch here ...or there ... or your tires are getting overheated and you want to avoid understeering on your normal grip line ..then you might want to just drive the car on the knife edge with a bit of wobble and drift ...is it ideal? No ..you shouldn't be in that situation in the first place. But it is always worth experimenting with and exploring.

But I agree with you. It is a discussion thread, you see many opinions but I just thought it was worth a look.