Drift entrance techniques/form

[ericcastro]

Originally Posted by MrChow

The more your kick in a drift the more speed you lose in a KA IMO. Just line better, keep has more speed has u can and more throttle.

Well, yes and no imo.

If you need to kick the clutch to keep angle and hold drift, then you got to.
Or you loose your drift altogether.

Its not like any of us Low HP guys are just kicking the shit out of our clutch for fun.
We do it cause we are about to grip up the rears.

And After you clutch kick, your wheels spin faster again, so you may loose the smallest bit of speed from scrubbing for that .5 second clutch kick.
But the speed is gained back and then some as the wheel spin/speed increases after the clutch kick, as well as maintaining higher RPM's and a longer drift.

If you think clutch kicking slows you down, try this experiment.
Next time you are in a 4o mph drift or so and coming up on a wall.
And you think, i could use some more angle here and probably slow down a touch.....
instead of ebraking, CLUTCH kick, and get back to us on how much it slowed you down, lol

see you in the WTB thread, lol.



Or you could just ask Kelvin how much a clutch kick slowed him down at RedBull LB last year.

[MrChow]

Originally Posted by ericcastro

Well, yes and no imo.

If you need to kick the clutch to keep angle and hold drift, then you got to.
Or you loose your drift altogether.

Its not like any of us Low HP guys are just kicking the shit out of our clutch for fun.
We do it cause we are about to grip up the rears.

And After you clutch kick, your wheels spin faster again, so you may loose the smallest bit of speed from scrubbing for that .5 second clutch kick.
But the speed is gained back and then some as the wheel spin/speed increases after the clutch kick, as well as maintaining higher RPM's and a longer drift.

If you think clutch kicking slows you down, try this experiment.
Next time you are in a 4o mph drift or so and coming up on a wall.
And you think, i could use some more angle here and probably slow down a touch.....
instead of ebraking, CLUTCH kick, and get back to us on how much it slowed you down, lol

see you in the WTB thread, lol.



Or you could just ask Kelvin how much a clutch kick slowed him down at RedBull LB last year.

I understand that very much. I normal kick when I need to keep my wheel speed up.
I'm still learning a few these here and there about holding long drifts. Aka drifting a straight away.
Like slow long sweeping turns I brake near the clipping point to get the car to rotate/angle more then dump the clutch to get the wheel spin again.

I haven't played around with clutch kicking a lot since I've been able to hold most drifts with higher speed or a good line. Also my memory of clutch kicking is when I was on stock suspension so when I did it then did mess weight transfers that weren't need.

I'll have "experiment" with kick now. Lol hopefully not. I should be already posting in the WTB threads.