nothing to do with drift rules… if the back of the car enters the turn before the front then you are going ________
WOW! that was awsome!
180 would mean he is LITERALLY driving the car straight, in reverse.
wow thats frickin cool
Yes.
:fry: dam!
Everytime I drive from the 90 to the 400 on my way to work in the morning I wish I could do stuff like that…
Definitely impressive driving there!
awesome! Almost time for snow drifting here…
Once I had the Driftbox I realized that anything over 40 degrees on dry pavement is a lot. At 15-20 degrees you’re sliding more than the average driver ever will without crashing.
I don’t know if you can approach 90 degrees on dry pavement at speed and complete the drift in a RWD car that doesn’t have drift specific mods. Maybe the guys that are more involved with drifting can educate me. The margin for error also gets tighter and tighter as drift angle increases and you seem to need a lot of speed and a good amount of power to make real high angle drifts possible with RWD.
When you watch the in car footage you can see that you make or break a drift that extreme on the entry. His movements until he’s past the apex are extremely minimal. If you have the entry wrong, you’re not saving it at that speed and angle.
The first time you’re looking out your side window to see where you’re going is pretty awesome. Over 100 degrees I was half turned around in my seat looking out the rear window to navigate the corner. That put a smile on my face for days. I understand why guys that participate in drifting events love it. I think most of the guys that knock drifting would change their tune after they nailed a 40 plus degree drift. It’s a rather different sense of accomplishment than what you get from taking just the right line through a corner at an autoX or on a road course.
I’ve seen quite a few vids of guys entering at 90 degrees but it’s all timing. Your car is basically sliding as if all 4 wheels are locked but if you don’t have enough speed you’ll slow down too early and run into the apex and if you’re going too fast, you go off course. Kawabata just took this to the very extreme.
When he said the “guys who are involved in drifting” he didn’t mean “the guy who posts on all the drifting forums, that everyone hates on said forums, and has been to a single drift event in a parking lot”.
Anything over 20 degrees is starting to become a lot of angle, even the massive knuckle kits that allow 50-60 degrees of angle, 99% of the time you may be using full lock but the car is not dancing on that limit, you are at maybe 30°+.
For a drift like in the original post, you 100% need drifting specific mods, or AWD.
Thanks for clearing that up. Have you used a Driftbox at any of your drift days? I’d be curious to see some of the run files if you don’t mind sharing.
heres another good view
As I was watching this I kept thinking of a rally vid I saw a long time ago.
I find this rally slide at least as impressive despite the angle not being quite as high. Why?
This is just a turn in the middle of a WRC stage, not a slide they hit over and over all day on a drift course with the same couple turns.
It’s super tight with cars and a ditch/burm on both sides that could easily total the car and end his rally if he goes a little off line vs. being on a track with runoff area where you can drag the car back to the pit and fix it up if you damage something.
Frozen public road with dirt and patches of black ice vs. clean race track.
It’s a rally car. Its set up to slide some, but is not fitted to allow huge steering angle etc. that drift specific cars use to perform these high angle drifts.
My favorite drift which I’ve seen in person was also on a rally stage. Ramana Laggeman pitched his Subaru pro rally car in sideways for a low speed 60ish degree turn on a narrow forest road and held it on the limiter as the back bumper nearly touched the burm on one side and the front bumper sliced through the post for a stop sign that was all the way on the inside of the corner like a hot knife though butter, tossing the sign in the road as he sped through. Granted without the stop sign it wouldn’t have been as awesome, but that’s part of what makes rally great…you’re on a normal road and these things happen.
There’s actually been a lot of these now that it’s encouraged at courses where the entry allows it for extra qualifying points, and of course everyone is trying it in practice.
There are a ton more examples of guys practicing overseas doing it too. Certainly something to aspire to. But as I haven’t driven in the past year not something I’ll be doing in the next 6-8 months 
Wow
Forsberg vid wins
Not even close. That Phil Morrison entry is beyond bananas
True enough, I just like the beat up piggy with exhaust out of the none existent hood, getting air on entry, just makes it look like down and dirty old school drifting.