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Its called drifting but it uses the rally special stage circuits at Oulton Park. This is an ultra low grip and watered track to simulate driving on snow for rallying.
Sensibly it could be called car control but it really is just people legally messing around in cars. The day is helped by the completely free professional instruction to improve your car control and get the thing sliding.
I realise the R is 4 wheel drive and difficult to "drift" with but it is equally as capable of being played with as the next car.
Mid engined cars did struggle and there were no FWD cars but I reckon anything that is fun in snow would be fun on this.
At the last meet, someone suggested the R might not be designed for drifting? Unless this was the flaw in Nissan's rally plan then I doubt this is true :doh::lol:
Here is a vid of a subaru owner messing around and showing how safe it is when you spin. You are lucky to hit 30mph so it is just like snow. We may have more of that again this year so it might be timely practice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtU9Hbu85Tk
For those struggling with understeer, I'll bring my tyre pump for their rear tyres :-D
The speeds are low so there is no stress on brakes, chassis or engine. I was able to drive to work on Monday without any issues.
The only downs side is the damp track gets the car dirty so you will need a few hours cleaning it afterwards.
I'll be going so if anyone wants to try their hand at something different then please come along.
To put things in perspective, my wife who was going to read a book last time will be driving again she had so much fun.
Let me know if you are interested.
Jim
Its called drifting but it uses the rally special stage circuits at Oulton Park. This is an ultra low grip and watered track to simulate driving on snow for rallying.
Sensibly it could be called car control but it really is just people legally messing around in cars. The day is helped by the completely free professional instruction to improve your car control and get the thing sliding.
I realise the R is 4 wheel drive and difficult to "drift" with but it is equally as capable of being played with as the next car.
Mid engined cars did struggle and there were no FWD cars but I reckon anything that is fun in snow would be fun on this.
At the last meet, someone suggested the R might not be designed for drifting? Unless this was the flaw in Nissan's rally plan then I doubt this is true :doh::lol:
Here is a vid of a subaru owner messing around and showing how safe it is when you spin. You are lucky to hit 30mph so it is just like snow. We may have more of that again this year so it might be timely practice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtU9Hbu85Tk
For those struggling with understeer, I'll bring my tyre pump for their rear tyres :-D
The speeds are low so there is no stress on brakes, chassis or engine. I was able to drive to work on Monday without any issues.
The only downs side is the damp track gets the car dirty so you will need a few hours cleaning it afterwards.
I'll be going so if anyone wants to try their hand at something different then please come along.
To put things in perspective, my wife who was going to read a book last time will be driving again she had so much fun.
Let me know if you are interested.
Jim
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Nice one Bob. It'll be good to catch up with you again.
