it from behind you can actually hold it sideways in a drift and it'll gain momentum that way but if you pull it from the front it's gonna straighten up naturally and you won't be able to gain momentum while it's drifting so now you're probably wondering in what world is a front-wheel drive drift useful if all you do is slow down while performing it well let me tell you front wheel drive cars tend to have a lot of understeer because the front wheels handle both the acceleration and steering increasing the traction load on the tyres therefore under heavy load such as in a long fast corner or tight corners such as hairpins understeer is almost guaranteed to happen at some point to get the grip back on the understeering vehicle the demands on the tyre tread need to be reduced this means using less steering angle and or trimming off speed inexperienced drivers will often panic and slam on the brakes this keeps the tyres from regaining grip and actually makes the understeer worse so to get around a corner without losing time we must initiate a front-wheel drive drift understeer is likely to occur at either the entry or exit of a corner and this is where you should initiate the front wheel drive drift to minimalize the understeer which will lose your time by drifting at either the entry or exit of a corner you won't need to steer much anymore and minimalize the chance of understeer now there is a method we can use to completely eliminate the chance of understeer for a corner in a front-wheel drive car but before that i want to let you know that i'm trying to hit NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN subscribers by the end of this year so if you enjoy my content please feel free to subscribe and drop a like it helps out massively and hopefully we'll reach that goal anyway back to the video so before i teach you the front wheel drive drift i just wanted to directly compare the front wheel drive drift to cornering usually with a bit of understeer so that is what we're going to do next on a series of hair pins as you can see on the left we have the front wheel drive drift and we can take a much tighter line around the entire corner which gives us a higher exit speed as we're pointing towards the exit of the corner much much sooner and already over the course of three hairpins we can see the front-wheel drive drift is pulling away quite a bit let's see how much faster it is exactly and well two that surprised me two seconds that is quite a lot of time over three corners if you've watched any of my videos in the how to toge series you'll know that a lot of methods are reused and the front wheel drive drift is no different there are two main methods we can use to initiate a front-wheel drive drift and these are the ones i'll be showing you today so make sure you stay tuned the first method is the trail braking drift the braking drift is done by lightly applying brake pressure with your left foot just before you enter the corner when you brake the weight of the car shifts forward to the front axle as you would have seen in my inertia drift tutorial or my four wheel drift tutorial this means the rear tyres have significantly less grip and if you turn into the corner while the weight is on the front the rear will step out and
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