[kfahmi]

Took a CGTS out for a spin (literally) at PEC LA today. We spent a good 10 minutes on the low-friction skidpad, and after some effort I was able to hold the car in a stable drift. Judging the amount of throttle required to hold the drift was extremely challenging...my instructor demonstrated it and made it look laughably easy. It's so hard to 1. resist your instincts that are screaming at you to back off the throttle and countersteer, 2. keep the nose pointed towards the inside of the drift, and 3. apply just enough throttle to hold the drift without spinning out. And that was on an easy, intentionally slick surface with a constant degree of friction. Doing it on a real road? I can't imagine how difficult that must be (and I'm never gonna try). But still, it was interesting...

 

[dreamer]

I struggled with that module. I got a couple good “laps” in but I did much better on the low-friction handling circuit.

 

[JakiChan]

My instruction be all like "Yo this easy", and I'm like "Hey Dom, I know you live life one quarter mile at a time but I've never even had a RWD car before and you're a race instructor so YEAH THIS IS HARD."

 

[duegatti]

Yeah, I'm not wired to perform one clearly defined, isolated, difficult task. I like to be overwhelmed and unable to think; thus I was serenely lapping the low friction track in Atlanta. It was my best event.

 

[vhs]

I had a ball doing that. I got to a constant steady drift around half of the circle within a few tries. I think part of the key besides the constant throttle, is to keep your vision where you want to go, which is a good primer for the track.I found that the low friction circuit was best for feeling the weight of the car - it was kind of like skating. It was also a cool way to learn how PSM effects the car. I now use PSM Sport all of the time as it's the right balance between feel and having a little help. I'm sure others prefer going full commando and shutting it off.

What's scary is how comfortable I became with oversteer. I had some fun with that intentionally on the big turn by the building before going up the hill. One instructor wasn't cool with it. I thought I was doing the classic Porsche image of sliding the rear through a turn.

This was the line up on my first day.

http://instagr.am/p/B0kF35NliI9/

 

[JazzCatGab]

What a great experience, for the experience! After reading Going Faster, an older book from the Barber racing school instructors, I think I might have been able to recover (during the last laps of my first set of laps at my first DE) from drifting off the track in a hairpin turn before I ended up off the track! I was looking where I wanted to go, but the car was drifting 90 degrees from it!