I no its not the best car to drift but Im heading up to Oulton on saturday to give it ago.
Any pointers would be very greatfully received

 

At Oulton you can do all of them as it is so low friction. Power is the most common though.

You can have an instructor sit with you any time you like, or let him drive you. He'll show you where best to use the handbrake, put on pwer etc.

On Oulton it only takes a few hours to get the knack and you'l be grinning from ear to ear. I hope to find time to spectate in the afternoon.

 

is this not really bad for your tranny and lsd?

 

There's no need for than handbrake in the S IMO. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big "drifter" but I'm quite capable of doing it.

You've got enough revs in an S to just use the power unless the surface is super grippy. A good stab in second gear combined with a sharp turn in is enoguh to get the back end of most cars out - then its all about keeping it there.

Scandanavian flick would probably work fine but IMO is too aggressive - I wouldn't want to do it in my car particularly thats for sure!

 

lift of oversteer will always send the back end out too ! but you have to be quick to catch it if anything just turn in quite tight , jab of throttle to send back out then drift..

 

Braking drift. Practice it because it is one of the most controllable ways to initiate a drift.

You can use the handbrake on the surface, but the handbrake is a bit of a cop out if i'm honest.

Power can be used for when you start off, but then you'll have issues if it's your only trick in getting smooth drifts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoNXqAvef7g

 

I would consider using another car with more uneven weight distribution, although I'd be curious to see how a 2000 drifts. Being quite a short wheelbase I'd imagine it would be quite "snappy"

I used to use my hand brake or clutch kicked my 200 most of the time on track. Depending on where I was on the corner or what I was trying to achieve. Having 300hp made it easier to power over but if I was approching a corner I simply started wide tugged the handbrake and put the power on. After you got the slide going, keeping it going is the hard part, its where power can have its benefits. The best advice I'd give anyone is be smooth. Get comfortable with the car sliding, feel comfortable with letting go of the steering wheel to let it do the countersteer work for you, learn the cars limits, this may mean you spin a few times but you'll learn how far you can push it. and when you can flow between some corners, get faster, but definetly be smooth. As soon as I began being smooth I became more relaxed when sliding sideways at 50mph.


Oh and Hypersonik, why is using the handbrake a cop out? How do you think the pro's do it on track? I'm sure the top EDC drivers (BonBon, Phil Morrison etc) all give the handbrake a tug at the first corner.

 

Clutch kick is the main one they use to start

Handbrake is a sort of last stand emergency - something to use if the rest of the skill on the drift hasn't quite gone to plan

The instructor who took me out was telling me to use HB and to begin with, it really works well.

After a while, you realise there are better, smoother ways in order to get the car doing what you want.

Finally - the S2000 handbrake is pretty sh1t - not like the hydraulic items that the top drifters would have.

 

I've not seen the events down south but I know at Knockhill the handbrake is most definetly used at the first corner, 95+mph blind right hander!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DngTGAEYdg4

Its used as a controlling element at the top level. Ps. I actually LOVE Bon's JZX81

 

couldnt of said it better myself


took me forever to learn how to do the odd roundabout! in my 200sx
once you have the hang of it and can let go of the wheel your laffing!


also if you sit quite far back move your seat forward gives you alot more controle