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Seeing as it was such a lovely night last night (cold) i thought i would go and practice some drifting around the factory areas at 3am when there isnt anyone else around.

It lasted one corner :P

Did ok coming into the corner.... coming out of it was a little different.

Was holding it sideways quite well going down the rd after the corner but let off the accelerator (i think this is why it happend) too much and the tyres gripped and threw me the other way more than i was meant to and was about to go head on into the meadian strip so i punched the accelerator all the way to the floor to get the wheels spinning and try and pull out of it and managed to flick it the other way and slow myself down a little more before hitting the concrete/grass sideon with the back wheel.

All i got out of it was a flat tyre (rear tyre sperated a little from the rim) which cost $20 to fix! :D

Think i will just wait until the good doctor shows me properly :)

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Originally posted by Silver-Arrowz

Lifting off throttle suddenly when oversteering causes it to snap the other way. Lift off easy.

hehe yeah i found out the hard way :P

ex - it would have been soooooooooooo embarasing if ppl were around lol

luckily the exhaust didnt get damaged either.

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Originally posted by akeenan

 

was this in the moorabbin area? near cochranes road?

nope... thats another good place to do it tho at around 3am as its empty

was around the dingley/springvale area

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