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Old 2007-08-06, 04:18 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Dean View Post
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.
Certainly this isn't an issue about slip-angle. This is an issue about control. Anyone that's intentionally controlling the car with dynamic friction rather than static friction has less control than someone trying to maintain grip, at least in terms of available traction. It's an awful lot harder to stop a car that's drifting sideways than one that's rolling straight.

And unless he's somehow fast (and thus legitimizing the driving technique, which isn't likely since drifting is slow) then he's just showboating, which we already don't allow.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll hear more through the BoD.
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