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Global Warfare 3: Mondello Park

Round 3 of the Irish Drift championship will take place in mondello park. The event is called “Global Warfare” and features top drifiters from all over the world competing against our very own!  

Irish drivers are 13 years unbeaten on home soil but can they make it 14? I am very excited for this event. The track also features a new layout with a grandstand surrounding the whole area. It takes place on july 1st and 2nd, be usre to get your tickets because unlike any other event at mondello park they are limited! 

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Technique 1: Braking drifting!

Now that you hopefully have a cheap drift car, I am going to outline a crucial but very basic technique!

How to: Breaking Drifting!

-Coming from the straight towards a corner

-Start to brake in a straight line

-When you have done about 70% of the braking on the straight line release most of the force on the brakes, but keep your foot on the pedal. The amount of the braking here really is crucial. If you brake too much you will kill the speed, and come to a halt spun around halfway when attempting to drift.

-When you have reduced force on the brakes, steer into the corner. Right now youre a little bit overspeeding, but if you would still apply full braking pressure throughout the corner you would end up with understeer.

-Turn into the corner, downshift using heel toe, and again leave your foot on the brake pedal. If you dont feel the car sliding already, briefly increase the pressure on the brakes just a tad to get the rear out.

-Feel the back end lose traction and start to countersteer with the wheels along the corners path

-Wait until you see that the car is facing the direction of the corner exit. Then gently give it a little power to pick up the drift. Control the throttle throughout the drift towards the exit.

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Start out cheap!

You should never go all out straight away and spend upwards of 10/15,000 euro’s on a fully fledged drift car. Its best to learn in a cheap RWD road car. €500 can get you an out BMW 535i, Strip it out, weld the differential and you will be surprised just how sideways you can actually get it. Ideally however you should really get yourself down to one of those drift experience days up in mondello park first just to see if its something you really want to get into.

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Welcome to my blog!

I have created this blog to help and guide fellow wannabe drifters into the world of competitive/amateur drifting. I will go through car set-up’s, news, costs and the techniques all involved in drifting.