Ben_Drinking_Coffee said:In reply to rallyxPOS13 :
This reminds me of cafeteria tray drifting: Take your high school Sentra, drive the rear tires on to some lunch trays and pull the e-brake. Then do slidy stuff in the school parking lot.
No? No one else did this?
Where I grew up, we had snow. No need for trays.
Some of the scariest tires I had were crappy tires. There's "slidey" and then there's "tires that never regain grip once lost". Or once they lost grip, they fell off a cliff.
It sounds like what you want is a tire that has a traction curve like an old bias ply, where the traction peak is pretty far out there slip-angle wise and the traction doesn't fall off so fast once you are over the hump.
Me, I wonder what the hardest compound tarmac rally tires would be like. They're engineered to work at various slip angles. Or maybe run flat all-seasons, since the carcass is similar in construction.
I'm thinking the ideal use case would be for old school style drifting, where you were dancing the car around with the front tires one side of the traction peak and the rear tires on the far side of peak, very controllable and you can collect it or make it slide more by juggling weight transfer. None of this tire smoke show doing burnouts around a corner...
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