By: Ken Finneran
Submitted: 2010-02-22 16:45:31 | Word Count: 526
Car drifting is just one of the many types of motor sports which have been well enriched in terms of techniques due to its colorful history and adaptations. The advocate of the techniques used in this extreme sport was Kunimitsu Takahashi who created the first drifting routines during the 1970s. Keiichi Tsuchiya who is also called as the Drift King decided to take and modify some of Takahashi’s techniques by practicing them in some of Japan’s most dangerous mountain roads. The popularity that the car drifting has made was incorporated with other countries’ adaptation of the sport and soon enough more developments and introduction of other techniques were made. Basically, the simplest drifting techniques have almost the same methods though the drifters need to do necessary routines which can be subsets of the general techniques during formal competitions.
Car Drifting Techniques for Beginners
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In this type of motor sports, the techniques used by the beginners do not employ weight transitions so that other beginners who are just learning the basics can learn from them easily. However, professional drifters sometimes employ beginner’s technique during competitions just to produce perfect executions instead of executing new routines that may not be considered. Most of the beginners’ techniques are focused on causing traction loss on the rear wheels by using the hand brake drift and they do this to lock the wheels in one direction. Some of the most common beginner routines are the hand brake drift and the power slide technique.
Hand Brake Drifting Routine
The hand brake drifting routine involves using the hand brake lever to instantly stop the movement of the rear wheels and cause them to move in a skidding motion. This is the favorite technique of most beginners because controlling the car through the hand brakes is one of the easiest, fastest, yet most challenging methods in car drifting. This is also done to prevent high possibility of damaging the axles of the car, stalling the engine, and destroying the tire rubbers. The technique is mostly done while the car is approaching a corner at high speed and then letting go of the gas to speed up once it is on the straight path. This is continuously done while pulling the handbrake and holding the clutch in order to make the rear end of the vehicle turn on corners. After these the clutch needs to be released together while hitting on the gas and at the same time controlling the drift for counter steering.
Powerslide Technique
The powerslide, on the other hand, is another beginner’s routine in the field of motor sports and this has developed some of the most basic techniques needed for professional car drifting. The powerslide is one of the most commonly used techniques used by people who want to learn the basics of steering and throttle control. These basics are essential because they are the foundations for harder routines and performance. The sequence of the actions in fulfilling this routine involves feathering the gas in line that directly leads to the turns of the circuit track, turning the steering wheel towards the curb and flooring the accelerator.
