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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
My primary thought is that people with lesser car control skills than Erik will think that they too can come out and go driftering. It's not so much that Erik is being unsafe (although I heard a secondhand report that he had an "off" that nearly brought him to a worker station while he was still in the throttle) but the potential for injury at worst and intermittent red flags at best.
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I agree, but unless there is a rule against it, then it is permitted in terms of on course driving technique.
You also open a significant debate with the high HP crowd that often have significant slip angles.
Before a Safety steward can interject, something must be unsafe. Skilled or unskilled drivers drifting or not have hit workers. We have participants who have regularly failed to brake for corners and run over many cones, timing lights, slid onto taxiways, headed for fences, etc.
IMHO drifting is not inherently any more unsafe especially at speeds like Saturday's course.
I think this is first an insurance question, second a realistic safety question and third a site damage question. Personal opinions on drifting don't count.