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You keep hearing about the new sport of drifting and it has peaked your curiosity.  If you know the basics of drifting, you can take out your Raum bought from Japan or Isuzu Elf for sale Japan and practice this intriguing sport.  Drifting is the art of over steering your car into a corner and getting it to go sideways.  It works the best with vehicles that are rear wheel drive, but you can learn how to do it with a front wheel drive vehicle with a handbrake.  Here are some of the most common drifting techniques that are used by professional drifters and you can easily find videos online that show you how to do it.

Braking drift: this is when you trail brake into a corner and the weight of the vehicle is on the front tires.  This causes the rear tires to lose grip on the road and the car is balanced in a low to medium turn by using a combination of acceleration and steering.

Swaying drift: also known in the drifting circuit as “hoku-Dori”, this is when the car’s rear end sways back and forth down a strait away.  The drift is a slow side to side feint.

Clutch kick: the driver dips the clutch pedal and releases it suddenly when they are on the approach to a corner.  This causes the car to kick.  It is also used during a mid drift to provide the vehicle with a burst of power that does not cause the car to lose traction in the rear.

Drop dirt drift: the act of dropping the rear tires off the hard track and into the dirt to maintain the drift and speed into the turn

Handbrake drift: the driver pulls up the handbrake and it locks up the rear wheels.  This causes the car to lose traction before it balances out the drift using a combination of steering and accelerating.

Jump drift: this technique, used in races, bounces the inside wheels over the curb.  This induces over steering by shifting the car’s weight to the opposite side.

Kansei drift: the driver takes their foot off of the gas pedal when they go into a high speed corner.  This shifts the weight of the car to the front and causes a mild over steering which is balanced out once again with a combination of steering and accelerating.

Long side drift: this technique has the driver pulling up the handbrake at high speed and it allows the car to maintain a high drift angle.  This is carried from the straight away into the turn.

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