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Originally Posted by pelliccio77
use the steering wheel during the clutch kick to flick the car into the turn. faint drift with a clutch kick basically
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This is the most important piece of advice in this thread. You need to perform a slight feint before doing a clutch kick. The weight transfer, in combination with the drivetrain shock of the clutch kick, helps break traction and causes the rear end to step out. I have never tried to initiate by simply turning inwards and clutch kicking, I can't imagine that works well, if at all.
I have also found that a clutch kick works better if you are in the mid-range of the RPMs. At redline, you simply don't have any more gear for the drive wheels to accelerate, allowing the car to drift. If you are entering a corner at very high RPM, I find the ebrake to be a much better technique. You can try entering in a higher gear to put the engine lower in the revs, but this can complicate things as you may need to shift back down if you don't have the power to drift the mid range of the higher gear.
Finally you need to consider if a clutch kick is the right technique for a given corner. I only initiate with clutch kick in 3rd gear in 2 particular situations. On big, fast corners where you need to keep the speed and revs up, and on big, long entries that tighten up and then require a downshift. Mid speed 3rd gear and slower 2nd gear corners are almost always ebrake.