99% of the time i use what is called a Scandinavian Flick. For example, as you approach a right hand corner, you steer quickly left, let off the throttle, quickly steer back right, get back on the throttle, then control the slide through the corner.

There are MANY different ways to drift though, and like Greboth said, it all comes down to practice and which method you prefer.

Quote from stealthstorm :

btw, what is that sound from my wheel when I start LFS and quit LFS, some sort of lock.

there are locks in your wheel that engage when it's set to 200 degrees rotation and unlock when set to anything above 200. So when you start lfs, it opens your wheel profile and unlocks the wheel, when you close lfs, it closes the profile and then locks the wheel back to the default 200 degrees. You can keep the wheel unlocked by pressing and holding R3, Select, Right paddle. That way it doesn't lock and unlock every time you start lfs

you can always email the devs for another unlock code. If you are nice about it and have a legitimate reason, they will give you another unlock.

if you are using a logitech wheel you can program a "ctrl+shift" macro onto one of your wheel buttons using the logitech profiler..so as long as you hold the button, it will display the persons username instead of their game name. And then if you wanted the usernames displayed all the time...just tape that button down...lol

Quote from 510N3D :

come on dave show me a 44 pleeeeease i cant hold the pressure anymore

lol, it will come with time i'm working on some road courses now though

Quote from Crazy Harry :

Looks like you got a good set

I tweaked it a little but thanks

my advice...stay off the walls lol

Quote from th84 :

Any American's looking to join a team wont find a nicer bunch of guy's to join up with! LOTF ftw!! (core is pretty cool too)

Hey hey hey....don't forget about us (EAGLE)'s over here

And for the LOTF guys, if you haven't seen it already, we're hosting a 150 lap race on the oval with the f08 on Aug 27th. It's listed here:http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=11383
We got 10 grid positions that are still available. You should get some guys together and come race with us

Last edited by dave4002000, Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:35.

We've still got 8 grid positions left! This event is going to be a lot of fun! Make sure you get your spot reserved soon!

Grid reservations:
01. (EAGLE)Dygear
02. (EAGLE)Racer
03. (EAGLE)Canadaman
04. (EAGLE)Thunderchild
05. (EAGLE)SicSRT-4
06. (EAGLE)Indymike
07. [FM]Crazy Harry
08. [FM]Dr. Bleifuss
09. [T-EVO] Dustin Dawes
10. RimChop
11. (LOTF)pjwon63
12. [FM]^Laudi
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Provisionals in-case of no-shows:
21.
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Last edited by dave4002000, Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:01.

Quote from mostflyskaterboy :

not cool dudes...not coool

lol, only three months after the fact illepall

Quote from The General Lee :

Dont hate or flame me because Im a demo racer...Im getting the s2 patch soon, I just want to perfect my racing, so I dont ruin your races

Is it possible to have engine problems...oil leaks and such like, we could have our engine blow, then we could leave oil on the track and a red and orange flag can come out

Any ideas

As long as you don't request something extrememly stupid or something that won't apply to demo racers anyway, i don't think anyone will flame you.

This, for example, is a good request..lol..i would also like to see mechanical failures in general.

haha..that's just awsome!

Grid reservations:
01. (EAGLE)Dygear
02. (EAGLE)Racer
03. (EAGLE)Canadaman
04. (EAGLE)Thunderchild
05. (EAGLE)SicSRT-4
06. (EAGLE)Indymike
07. [FM]Crazy Harry
08. [FM]Dr. Bleifuss
09. [T-EVO] Dustin Dawes
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Provisionals in-case of no-shows:
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i was thinking caterham from the first pic and now with the second pic it definately looks like a caterham but with somekind of wide body kit.

edit: and didn't caterham make a model 14? as in Caterham 14? or am i thinking about the caterham 7..lol

Last edited by dave4002000, Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:52.

Quote from GP4Flo :

n3o, you are an ****!

(sorry mods)

+1...i hate people like this...actually, i just hate stupid people in general

You might want to check out www.SimFia.com. That's the offical site for anything dealing with the F1 or DTM leagues . I don't think Dygear checks this forum anymore.

Smoky, you forgot the [FM] for Harry AND you put the hyphen in the wrong spot in my name...you forgot to take your medicine again, didn't you?

Grid reservations:
01. (EAGLE)Dygear
02. (EAGLE)Racer
03. (EAGLE)Canadaman
04. (EAGLE)Thunderchild
05. (EAGLE)SicSRT-4
06. (EAGLE)Indymike
07. [FM]Crazy Harry
08. [FM]Dr. Bleifuss
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Provisionals in-case of no-shows:
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and yea, this is mainly a bump post...lol

+1

i really wish the admins or the devs would lock these topics as soon as they came up. Every week there is a new discussion(well, high school type argument is more like it) about drifting. It's starting to get old. The same thing, over and over again. Some people demanding that LFS needs to cater to drifters and others flaming them for it. Then everyone thinks that they know everything there is to know about drifting and wants to tell the entire world. If you want to drift, that's fine...if you don't want to drift...that's fine. I really don't see the problem here.

Now, notice that i've kept this post nice and clean. I didn't insult anyone or anything. But i can almost guarantee you that i will get all kinds of people trying to flame me. Because that is what happens in these types of topics.

Quote from Hyperactive :

"royal legends of pure adrenalin, fury and unlimited nemesis of the fuzy troops"

...lol

i'm going with Mekanik, because of patch U and he's only a demo racer (gotta be s2 licensed for tweak)

Quote from m374llic4 :

I have been playing LFS for a long time. And for a good while everyone, it seems, has a thing against drifters, but why? Just because your not in to it? I am not in to rally racing, so why are there rally tracks? Just because I dont like them, they should not be included? Thats the dumbest thing I ever heard.

Saying Drifting isn't a real sport, or isn't a real style of racing is just ignorant. Just because its not what your used to does not mean its not real. LFS is indeed a racing simulator, Drifting is a style of racing, as is autocross, rally, grip, and any other type people like to play.

quit being "LFS RL sim grip" fanboys and let the people who purchase the game play it how they want to. Thats why you can host personal servers and load what ever track you want.

Give us a mountian run map or 2 and just leave it at that. Sure all the other tracks are great, you can drift just fine, theres plenty of good turns. So what, there are alot more tracks in real life then that, so what not be able to play some? If you dont like it, so what? who cares if you dont like it, dont join the server and stay in your regulars. It will make absolutely no difference to your playing experience at all, everything will remain the same, you can play just the same as you always have. But people will be able to stop spending all there time bitching on the forums and be able to play the tracks they want.

So please, quit being babys.

Couldn't have said it better myself

Quote from sweetreid :

Then there's the straight parts. I'm don't have much advice here. The one thing I do know, top speed is less important than cornering speed, usually

Just remember, slow in, fast out. You don't want to go screaming into a corner just to be ahead of someone and then having to stay on the brakes halfway through the corner. You should be off the brakes before you turn in. (Unless you trailbrake, like me) Because the sooner you get off the brakes, the sooner you can get back on the gas, 99% of corners are all about exit speed. Because that is where you make up a lot of time, on the straights between corners. And the faster you can exit the first corner, the faster you can go down the straight .

And good call with the tire temps! I totally forgot to mention that

Last edited by dave4002000, Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:57.

Quote from Funnybear :

You have to play with the settings, you will never learn otherwise.

Exactly, one of the tricks i used when got started in making sets was to create a new set(like FunnyBone said) and then just take one of the settings and max it out. Then go drive around for a little and see what effect it has on the car. Then put that one back to default and max out something else, etc., etc. This way it is very obvious as to what a setting does to the handling of the car. Then once you understand what each setting actually does, you can go in and start making small adjustments to suit your driving style.

You can read about setups until your nose bleeds and your face turns purple, but you won't fully understand it until you actually play around with it.

I'll be happy to help out with anything if i see you on the track. I like it when newcomers ask legitimate questions about improving their skills. Newcomers i will gladly help. Noobs(the setup demanders, the 1st turn crashers, etc.) are the ones i will not help, simply because they expect everyone else to do the hard work.

i like the idea of having to wait until the next race to join after you destroy your car. But i don't like the idea of keeping that crashed car on the track. I would like to see what GT Legends does. If you hit "Esc" (which is the equivelent of "Shift+S") for any reason during a race, you are not allowed to join again until the next race starts. In LFS, i think it would encourage people to drive cleaner and also stop people from pitting-out at random times and trying to race with the leaders who are 10 laps ahead of them.