Drifting Porsche CarreraGT

[jakebarrell]

A purist’s masterpiece, race derived naturally aspirated V10, last of the analog supercars, mechanical orchestra… the Porsche Carrera GT is a galore of superlatives. It’s good with any big word you could throw at it, and this video demonstrates all of that in a language unfamiliar to you unless you speak German. Not to worry though, the vocal stimuli provided by the wailing V10 as it goes up the road along with some brilliant lofty driving from Tim Schrick is good enough to paint a comprehensive picture of the kind of madness it would be drifting a Porsche Carrera GT. Watch on…

[GH85Carrera]

Drifting any car is just simply stupid. All it accomplishes is destroying the tires extra fast. It is a SLOW way through the corner. I put it right up there with burnouts. 100% stupid.

Chew up the tires bu taking a 50 MPH corner at 49.9 MPH and have fun instead of silly drifting.

[kach22i]

Those dried up pine needles on the road early in the video are pretty scary looking to a former motorcycle operator.

I understand the ability to steer a front engine rear drive car by over powering the rear wheels to swing the tail out, I once saw a video of a mid 1980's BMW verses a mid-engine Ferrari around some cones. The BMW did better time on the autocross course because of this technique.

And I understand the point of the video, an analog car - you could not do this style driving (drifting) with an overly computer controlled car. I've had fun on dirt roads swinging the tail out, a thrill factor involved no doubt.

Fun stuff, impractical as pointed out because of tire wear.

Still a hoot.

[Gogar]

Same reason I don't pop wheelies on my motorcycles. It's just inefficient and stupid.



















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[javadog]

I'm with Glen. This is a waste of a nice car.

There are those that like to attend race events.
There are those that watch the Fast and Furious movies.

I know which group I'm in.

JR

[Gogar]

LOL I just had this flash dream where a bunch of early '60s guys were standing around in their LL Bean pants eating Brie off of their victorinox pocketknives and someone drove by in a CGT and chirped the tires and this huge collective yellow-toothed garlic-infused sigh emanated from the group and someone muttered "....... idiot" and then someone else piped up about how they'd rather drive their SC every day than that thing

[kach22i]

I'm not sure what that means, but it's funny.

[javadog]

Well..

I'm younger than that,
Never owned anything from LL Bean,
Have no Brie in my fridge,
Don't own a pocket knife,
Don't have yellow teeth or garlic breath,

But, other than that, you nailed it.

JR

[Gogar]

You have no joy sir

[Tobra]

He seemed awfully herky jerky, maybe the first time in that car and the first time on that road. Sideways is not the way to drive a car, even someone else's car.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by Gogar

You have no joy sir

I have a lot of fun in my life, I just don't drive like a dickhead on public roads. Porsche didn't build enough of these things to ensure a sufficient supply of them, given the inadequate driving skills of 99% of their owners.

JR

[Gogar]

Me neither! So at least we have that.

[pwd72s]

Graham Rahal bought one, said it was dangerous on the street, so he sold it....to Scott Walker.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Graham Rahal bought one, said it was dangerous on the street, so he sold it....to Scott Walker.

THIS! I certainly have no seat time in a CGT but I thought they (and most mid engine cars) were notorious for spinning when they get to the point of lose of traction (Jay Leno)?
Thus making it a very bad choice for a "drifting" vehicle... as opposed to a front engine rear wheel drive car... like my mom's old 69 Impala

When I had a 944 it would skip a little sideways if I went in too hot for a corner (gosh I miss that).

Funny how the youngins think they invented drifting (WRC anyone?)

[ted]

It's power over-steer, something nannies don't like.

Just a driver showing off his left foot braking with a few pitches and catches.
Just getting on top of the tire having fun over driving the car.
really has little reflection on the GT's capabilities.

Agree this is no nannies all driver skills.
Same section watching a GT3 on nannies would be less impressive.
That would just be a display of some fine German computer software.

[Geronimo '74]

He was not trying to set a fast time or show off.
I think he was just showing how he relatively easy it was to control the slide using throttle.

[Macroni]

Seems to me that is how those cars handled (ask all those who have crashed one)

[gorthar]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Graham Rahal bought one, said it was dangerous on the street, so he sold it....to Scott Walker.

That is true, but I know he DID buy another one so it must not have scared him that much. I have pictures of the one he sold to Walker back when he still owned it that was taken a benefit car show that his pop puts on to benefit a local boys home called the Buckeye ranch. A few years later there was another Carrera GT there that also belonged to Graham.

The Walker car:







The other one taken a few years later. You can't read the sign but trust me it says Graham Rahal is the owner.

[arerrac]

Who cares about tires when you reach level of car ownership.

Also, he's not just some hack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Schrick

[rusnak]

This is an outrage. No one, and I mean, no one - unless they want to turn in their dangling lit ciggy, angst ridden Frenchie card, would eat Brie off of a Victorinox.