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Originally posted by nostatic
i was watching a show on this last night. The guy said he goes through a set of tires in 15 mintues. That ain't a cheap hobby...
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I attended a Pro Drift Event at the Miami/Homestead Raceway a couple of years ago. The Mazda Rotary club I belonged to got us in for a discount and our cars displayed inside the show.
I was VERY interested in the car setup of the Pro's. Falken was the event sponsor and Falken Team Drivers were the feature.
They ran Azenis in the front, and Ziex's in the rear, the rear tires were garbage passanger tires the cheapest Falken makes and lowest traction rating. The fronts were 225's on 17 inch rims. The rears were 205's on 16 inch rims.
They set up the rear tires so they will get no traction. I also noticed the Pros would do very long burnouts at the beginning of their stint to overheat the rear tires and render them to have virtually no traction at all. It was almost like magic to watch the cars spin around like they were on casters defying everything I knew about car control.
I thought that until I saw the specifics of their tire setup then it made perfect sense how they were doing it.
I thought it would be cool to learn how to drift for no other reason but to be more confident in a grosss oversteer situation.