Track Surface for Drifting

Hey guys,

I just realized that AC has a setting that allows you to alter the surface of the track. I've been using it to my advantage when it comes to drifting, as it makes the experience significantly better when you have it on the Old/Dusty settings,

Do any of you guys even use this lol? Upon seeing it I thought it would be pointless to even experiment with it, but it is lifechanging.

 

You're better off with higher grip settings but avoid 100%. I use Slow for around 95 + or - 1

 

i like the feel of greens tracks

 

Run a race weekend with practice/qualifying
start with the green track setting and feel the track surface rubber in, makes it that much more immersive.
Corners get tighter, lap times get faster, braking improves.
Try it out

 

Personally i don't mind drifting on optimal (100%) grip, it's perfectly doable even with semislicks. But imho the best thing about low grip is how it reduces the limitation of hardware and lack of comfort with drifting. If you have a slow wheel (or just not optimized for drifting) and not enough experience it's easier to learn and more enjoyable to drift with street tyres on a dusty track.
Also high grip requires better understating of thermal changes in the tyres so that you can know how the car will react in subsequent corners and adjust driving style actively, instead of trying to wrestle the car reactively and loose it because the car changed it's balance mid drift. Low grip can make these transitions less visible and easier to cope.

If i were to recommend a grip setting to keep for long time i'd go with @Lowkey 's Slow (green track also reaches 95% but it's a bit more random).

 

I have experience with drifting in other Racing games, but as this is a simulation it isn't really on the Racers side, so I am finding it rather tricky. But i've got to admit its way too satisfying driving a BMW M30 from your virtual garage onto a Dusty Drift track

How do you setup your car dude to make it drifty?

All I do is increase the pressure of the wheels, but theres bound to be other settings to make Drifting easier!? c:

 

Just take the drift spec e30.

 

@=_Racer Fi5h_= Take the BMW Z4 Drift spec, it's an underrated gem of a car... it's so easy to drift that even grandma can do it, heck it's hard not to drift it. And it can take soo much angle that even on completely wasted rear tyres you can still keep it on track in clouds of smoke.
Plus you can adjust turbo levels in this car by pressing numbers 1-0 (1= 10% 0=100%) that also damages engine so either use damage: off or ctrl+Q to disable the annoying monit)

Z4 is good stock. As for setting up other cars to drift i do it like this:
Max negative front camber, add 2-4 psi to front tyres, remove 8-14 psi from rears if it's something like powerful BMW, less or even none with lotuses/ferraris etc. Pick street tyres (preferebly not the 90's as they are a bit more difficult temperature wise and you need some front grip to have comfortable entry). Rest is minor car specific settings

ps: As a personal note unless you have some expensive wheel increasing minimum force and ffb gain helps the steering response for drifting. Ideally it should be possible to drift from corner to corner barely holding the wheel with fixed hand, depending solely on FFB to move the wheel around (using drift spec car).

 

Do you guys drift with tire wear on or off? I've been leaving it on but I don't know what else the difference is besides 98 vs 99% wear most of the time.

 

for me i join driftjunkies sweden servers when i drift. 90's tires and 96 trackgrip.. love the e30 drift spec.
great fun after 30 minutes im sweating balls and have to take a brake hehehehe

 

Personally i like the tyre damage evolution of blistering and wear... it's slow enough to adjust to the evolving car. So unless there are some physics issues (like the E30D blowing up tyres) or when it's drift challenge for points/levels wear: on it is.

The 1% difference can be pretty huge when driving a carefully balanced racecar on the limit, but when drifting the rear grip drops by 5-15% from temperature alone so the added effect of wear can be spotted only in very controlled, repetitive drifting. And even then it's just a tiny bit less power/speed to slide a given corner. Plus I think it takes at least ~10+ minutes of constant drifting to start to feel the pains of wear/thermal damage. With the car being nicely progressive about it until some moment when the blister buildup, from increased sliding with less grip, starts gaining momentum, signaling "thats the end of this set" .

Online thou, it's a party pooper when stuff starts to get interesting So all the servers i've seen had it off.

 

With AI for dragstrips, could AI for drifting happen in the future, including in modded tracks? Like a track day environment, but with AI cars drifting on the track and not racing.

If corner approaches -> start drifting
If car very close to AI car -> start tandem drifting

 

Yeah i see no problem with that... we would only need to open up Stefano's and Aris heads and switch the brains, piece of cake! (I would so love a feature like that )