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May 12, 2007 | 12:47 PM

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tonykart125

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Smoothness is key, but there is no doubt he knows what he is doing.

May 12, 2007 | 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Kodokan_4,May 12 2007, 02:04 PM

I've seen this same behavior by other profesional drivers. It's much more pronounced when they are asked to drive unfamiliar (production) cars as fast as they can. I don't think it's possible to drive like that in a real race car.

Also keep in mind that Tsuchiya's style encorporates drifting. He has found that he can go faster through corners and get faster lap times by using his drifting techniques. This style requires more steering wheel action/correction and pedal action to repeatedly break loose the rear.

It naturally looks more sloppy with the car sliding so much. The truth is in the lap times, or the total time for the touge. Like you said, Tsuchiya is fast.

-Pete

May 12, 2007 | 04:30 PM

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His drift style mimics that of what rally drivers do. If you watch WRC, you will notice how much correction they have to make during a turn as well. For a drift driver, you don't brake before entering a corner like conventional professional drivers but instead during the corner to induce oversteer like Tsuchiya. Like someone said, it naturally looks more sloppy when the car is sliding so much.

May 12, 2007 | 08:28 PM

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Hmmm...so the question is...which method displays the full potential of the f430 or any car for that matter. driving the multi-correction drift technique or the brake-entry speed-accelerate out of the turn technique? My thing is, I just don't see Felipe Massa drifting out a turn in his formula 1 car. Then again, I'm not an expert in racing.

May 12, 2007 | 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ChargedS2K,May 12 2007, 08:28 PM

I forget which driver it was, but I remember watching an interview of an old school Formula 1 Driver. In the interview he was talking about the diffences between driving a modern F1 car and a older F1 car. He said that the cars today offer so much downforce, where as back then, they didn't have any wings so drivers would actually powerslide through certain corners. With the aerodynamics and the amount of grip F1 cars have, I wonder if it is even possible to drift those cars?

With the amount of experience and accomplishments Tsuchiya has, I think he can drive whatever way he wants to.