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Originally Posted by berettafan
don't ski but my guess would be ski racers don't 'drift'.
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They actually "drift" quite a bit at times but just like in a car, the fastest way through a corner is going forward as opposed to sideways. Balancing the various forces of physics leads to a compromise and skidding at times, exactly like a car on a racetrack.
When I started doing track events in a car, it reminded me completely of skiing and specifically slalom when there are series of connected curves. When you are really cooking in a car, you aim for the apex like you want to hit it too much "inside" and the sliding of the car makes you just miss it, exactly like a slalom pole. You do not ski in big curvy loops around slalom poles, it more like an almost straight line. Auto-x would be a very close analogy but I've never done it.
Anyone who has ever raced on skis and then drives on a race track cannot miss the extreme similarities.
