One person I respect for having proper driving skills is Chris Harris. By the way, he's now going to be on BBC Top Gear so that's a plus to hear more informative information from him. Drifting is a skill I feel everyone should experience in every car they have in both dry and wet conditions. Reason being is that it allows you to understand how the car is going to respond to being "out of control", however, if you practice drifting and know how you're car will react in these conditions you're more in control of the situation as well as possibly preventing an accident by gracefully pulling off a recovery.
If Roadster owners are down for renting out a track session to play around with their Roadsters and push them to their limits I'm totally in!
As Chris mentions in this video below, this should only be done on a track. I know a few areas where I can drift safely without endangering people or property other than my own, and that's where I play around with my Roadster whenever I experiment with any suspension or alignment change to understand what that change did to the response and input of the car. Right now where I have my Roadster dialed I'm very happy. Played with drifting it in the dry pavement as well as wet. I don't have a crazy swing of the rear end, the front grips the way it should without any crazy understeer and the rear hangs tight gliding smooth when at minimum 8/10ths to full power is given in the drift. Every time I drift now when the drift is done, the smell of burning smoking tires enter the Roadster. So I suspect I'm getting some white smoke coming off my wheels in my drift as in the video. Anyways.... with this, I can gauge better when I push harder into the turns how the front and back are responding. Having the quick ratio rack, castor maxed out positive, the Sector 111 V2 steering arms to give me more negative camber adjustment up front combined with the rear maxed out on negative camber all contribute to what I find to work for my Roadster. They all need to work and come together in true harmony to give you a clearer picture on what's going on with the wheels and chassis of the car. I may play around with buying an adjustable front and rear swaybar so I can even more fine tune and adjust the grip of the front / rear of the car if I ever want to track the car. However it in no way does the Roadster need it in terms of anti-roll. Its only good in my opinion for changing how much traction you want with the car in a quick amount of time, but not the way to "calibrate" your car to your typical driving needs. Its not really on my priority list since the car in no way needs it for daily driving as its already properly equipted.
So with that, onto the drifting videos.
Here's a review / drifting with Chris Harris in the latest Lotus Exige S, this one is nice since it closely resembles our weight distribution of our Roadsters and in fact its in our blood:
If Roadster owners are down for renting out a track session to play around with their Roadsters and push them to their limits I'm totally in!
As Chris mentions in this video below, this should only be done on a track. I know a few areas where I can drift safely without endangering people or property other than my own, and that's where I play around with my Roadster whenever I experiment with any suspension or alignment change to understand what that change did to the response and input of the car. Right now where I have my Roadster dialed I'm very happy. Played with drifting it in the dry pavement as well as wet. I don't have a crazy swing of the rear end, the front grips the way it should without any crazy understeer and the rear hangs tight gliding smooth when at minimum 8/10ths to full power is given in the drift. Every time I drift now when the drift is done, the smell of burning smoking tires enter the Roadster. So I suspect I'm getting some white smoke coming off my wheels in my drift as in the video. Anyways.... with this, I can gauge better when I push harder into the turns how the front and back are responding. Having the quick ratio rack, castor maxed out positive, the Sector 111 V2 steering arms to give me more negative camber adjustment up front combined with the rear maxed out on negative camber all contribute to what I find to work for my Roadster. They all need to work and come together in true harmony to give you a clearer picture on what's going on with the wheels and chassis of the car. I may play around with buying an adjustable front and rear swaybar so I can even more fine tune and adjust the grip of the front / rear of the car if I ever want to track the car. However it in no way does the Roadster need it in terms of anti-roll. Its only good in my opinion for changing how much traction you want with the car in a quick amount of time, but not the way to "calibrate" your car to your typical driving needs. Its not really on my priority list since the car in no way needs it for daily driving as its already properly equipted.
So with that, onto the drifting videos.
Here's a review / drifting with Chris Harris in the latest Lotus Exige S, this one is nice since it closely resembles our weight distribution of our Roadsters and in fact its in our blood:
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