I had a little break from LFS over the last few years and there is always a few things that will always be consistent:
We all feel at times that we need to justify what we enjoy, with anything that shares opinions like a forum (or even in life in general) and there will always be differences. That is what makes life so interesting.
I get the same enjoyment out of 'drifting' and 'grip driving', even if one was necessarily faster doesn't mean that the other is any less important if thats what you enjoy doing. It will be an indefinitely continuing discussion on any racing forum that has a physics engine close enough to replicate "drifting" and "grip driving".
But since it is a discussion topic i'll let some fuel on the fire haha. One of the best drivers in the world Drift King, Keiichi Tsuchiya uses drifting and still manages to hold out ahead in the togue races which seems beneficial in areas where the track is quite small and narrow. Yet on races that have wider corners he manages to keep the grip levels as high as possible. Most of the drifting would have been for show, which goes to show that if your good enough at driving you could go around the track with your car upside down scraping along on its roof while you stand on it singing "The Hills Are Alive With the Sound Of Music" and still win the race. :P
We all feel at times that we need to justify what we enjoy, with anything that shares opinions like a forum (or even in life in general) and there will always be differences. That is what makes life so interesting.
I get the same enjoyment out of 'drifting' and 'grip driving', even if one was necessarily faster doesn't mean that the other is any less important if thats what you enjoy doing. It will be an indefinitely continuing discussion on any racing forum that has a physics engine close enough to replicate "drifting" and "grip driving".
But since it is a discussion topic i'll let some fuel on the fire haha. One of the best drivers in the world Drift King, Keiichi Tsuchiya uses drifting and still manages to hold out ahead in the togue races which seems beneficial in areas where the track is quite small and narrow. Yet on races that have wider corners he manages to keep the grip levels as high as possible. Most of the drifting would have been for show, which goes to show that if your good enough at driving you could go around the track with your car upside down scraping along on its roof while you stand on it singing "The Hills Are Alive With the Sound Of Music" and still win the race. :P