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Originally Posted by iminhell1
Throttle steer.
If you really want to impress me, learn how it's done properly. This is what I was practicing and showing off the last couple years on the ice. It just amazes people when you can make transitions (right to left) and increasing radius or decreasing radius turns without touching the steering wheel once. Just a dab of brake to shift weight and stab throttle to add wheel spin.
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Yep, that's the way I like to do it. There was a great article years ago in either Car & Driver or Road & Track. They wrote up a visit to the Lamborghini factory and a ride with one of the testers (Dario somebody, IIRC). They were amazed at how he drifted (prolly not the term they used) through every corner and that he never touched more than the bottom 1/3 of the steering wheel no matter what maneuver he was performing.
I've lived in the Upper Midwest all my life and I learned my first important lessons in driving back in high school, in snowy parking lots with a '76 Monte Carlo with Posi-Traction and big-lugged snow tires and a couple bags of sand in the trunk (and a tool box). Learned to read the condition of the surface and figure out how much traction I'd have available. Had a few close calls when you could have used my hiney-hole as a pencil sharpener, but I learned how to make the car an extension of myself. I still do "shitties" in snowy parking lots, I just have heated seats now. :-)