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Drift gone bad...

This morning it was wet and rainy here in (normally sunny) Charlotte, NC.  There is a specific intersection on my way to work that is particularly fun to fishtail through...  You know the kind, sloping away and lots of room for error and no traffic. :)

This particular turn is a right turn at a major intersection.  I don't have traction-loc yet, so it is harder to get the car to drift turning right.  So I gave the car a little extra to rotate...

Well it being recently wet, the car rotated easier than I expected.  SO I finished the drift facing the wrong way.  Just then the light turned green, so oncoming traffic was starting to come.  So into reverse and backed into the next turn off.

A little embarassing, but no harm nor foul.  :burnout:

Not really street racing since it was all within the speed limits.  Just a little fun.

Drift gone bad...

Reply #1 –
I've done that alot when i was younger.  My Camaro used to love to do it.  I used to do a similar thing on a Michigan Left (turnaround in the middle of a divided highway).  I punched it a little too hard and ended up doing a complete 360 instead of the normal 180.
My car is a gravity hybrid.  The gasoline engine gets me up the hills, and gravity gets me down.

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Reply #2 –
I did that twice. Well, 1.5x. Both were in the rain.

Once was in my first car, a Taurus, and well I tried to make a left turn at a T-type intersection. I was on the | part trying to go to the - part. Well, I turned the wheel too hard, and I was going to fast. Instead of fishtailing into the turn, I just turned about 15 degrees and slid straight into the ditch on the other side of the road.:hick:

The other one was in an old toyota pickup. A real tiny one. Well, same intersection, same type of turn only I was going right. I made the slide, but I slid a little too far. I tried to correct but made the biggest mistake you can make when in a slide, and hit the brakes. I wound up doing a 180 all the way across the road and into the ditch on the other side. In pouring ass rain and I'm trying to get my truck out of the  ditch. Lesson learned.:dunce:

Hey, btw, just cause its in the speed limits doesn't mean it can't be "careless" or worse "reckless driving". Be careful.
--SteveN 👍
[thread=28690]1988 Cougar V6[/thread]
2012 F-150 3.7L

Drift gone bad...

Reply #3 –
I know, I know.  I need to get involved in road racing or autocrossing so I can get my driving aggressiveness out. 

To those that autocross and road race...  do you drive like a grandma on public roads?
 

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Reply #4 –
I just wish there was a road track around here that I could take some laps on every few months.

We've got a strip and a dirt track, but I want some of those curves they test cars with on tv:burnout:
--SteveN 👍
[thread=28690]1988 Cougar V6[/thread]
2012 F-150 3.7L

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Reply #5 –
Ha, I did basically the same thing last week in my 'Bird leaving school...just I hit a curb and CRACKED the inside of one  of my 10 Holes'.

Drift gone bad...

Reply #6 –
ouch
--SteveN 👍
[thread=28690]1988 Cougar V6[/thread]
2012 F-150 3.7L

Drift gone bad...

Reply #7 –
Here's my rain story. I lived on a chip-and-seal road when I was a kid. They just dump small gravel down on the road and pour tar over it. I had just bought the first car with my own money. A 1969 GTO 400 4 abrrel with a posi and a Hurst his/her shifter. It was 400 bucks as I recall in 1977. ANYWAY, I was showing off to my younger brother, and was trying to slide sideways and enter our driveway.  I slid, but the car rotated on the slick surface and I CREAMED our mailbox and ended in the ditch in front of the house!

I knew my Dad would be furious, so I got the car out and fixed the mailbox and yard damage in the 2 hours before he got home. He did give some shi^ about it, but at least I cleaned up my mess! That was some of my first bodywork, fixing the dent in the rear quarter.

My brother still cringes when I say "Watch this!". (Last time it was showing him 140 on the Porsche 951's speedo in under a 1/2 mile.)  LOL

THAT is the car I miss. It was why I ended up in TurboFords.

Drift gone bad...

Reply #8 –
Here's my rain story. I lived on a chip-and-seal road when I was a kid. They just dump small gravel down on the road and pour tar over it. I had just bought the first car with my own money. A 1969 GTO 400 4 abrrel with a posi and a Hurst his/her shifter. It was 400 bucks as I recall in 1977. ANYWAY, I was showing off to my younger brother, and was trying to slide sideways and enter our driveway.  I slid, but the car rotated on the slick surface and I CREAMED our mailbox and ended in the ditch in front of the house!

I knew my Dad would be furious, so I got the car out and fixed the mailbox and yard damage in the 2 hours before he got home. He did give some shi^ about it, but at least I cleaned up my mess! That was some of my first bodywork, fixing the dent in the rear quarter.

My brother still cringes when I say "Watch this!". (Last time it was showing him 140 on the Porsche 951's speedo in under a 1/2 mile.)  LOL

THAT is the car I miss. It was why I ended up in TurboFords.

Drift gone bad...

Reply #9 –
Quote from: flylear45;342081
My brother still cringes when I say "Watch this!". (Last time it was showing him 140 on the Porsche 951's speedo in under a 1/2 mile.)  LOL.

and yet no one reams him out...i post something similar and get reamed a new one......
Currently Birdless but never Foxless

86 Mustang GT