Drift - a slippery sport

Drifting - competition is not on speed, and the spectacle: the handsome driver will drive on the highway, weaving on the verge of departure, the more points earn. Riding in a constant drift is the driver put on full, and yet such a way of driving is very difficult to master. But in Russia, drifting until it reached the same popularity as drag racing. In English the word "drift" means "mole", "slip". Drift competitions are held on special routes with more turns, so that pilots could keep the car in a constant skid. The winner is the one who is as fast as possible slid along the road, showing great skill of drifting. During the race, special devices measure the longitudinal and transverse velocity, angle and speed of drift. At the show's Drift speed is not so important, the attention of spectators and the jury tends to entertainment, so members are constantly coming up with different pieces - a door opens on the go, then use the rubber of different colors to color the smoke was, for this they receive extra points. Match of drift consists of two parts - Qualification (Tansu (Jap.) or chase run (English)) and finals (tsuiso (Jap.) or chase attack (English)). During training, each participant makes a few laps on the track, then selected 16 people who showed the best results. The finals are done in pairs, the pilots once to change the order. If a second ahead of the first drift, then he wins the race, and if the overtaking takes place outside the slip, then Ahead loses. If a second racer begins to lag behind, the chances of victory at the first noticeable increase due to extra points. At first glance it seems that someone from them is easier, but both should make an effort not to lose: one who goes first, must not only count and keep the car in the drift, but also to monitor, if not ahead of his rival, and second, keep the distance. Progenitors of drift were the Japanese, the author of this way of driving feel racer Kunimitsu Takahashi. His original technique of cornering the Japanese Touring Car Championship All Japan Touring Car Championship has attracted the attention of fans. Feature of his drive was entering a turn in the drift, due to this rate at the outlet was higher than that of rivals. In 1977, amateur Drift Keiichi Tsuchiya has released a video teaching technique of sliding. This clip has become very popular among young people, he began drifting in the era of big parking lots, where young people are honing their skills. And although the drift long recognized as an official sport, is still a lot of fans wander at night in parking lots. By the way, this crowd clearly shown in the third part of the film "The Fast and the Furious" - Tokyo Drift. " Only 11 years after the video was the first championship of drifting. To date in Japan is carried out one of the major championships in professional drifting - D1, which was founded in 2000. Americans are satisfied with the same championships - Formula D. Rules D1 allows participation only production car with rear wheel drive, the wheels they should be with conventional tires, which can be freely bought in the automobile. It is forbidden to set the racing tires and replace the engine (Revised permitted). Allows replacement of body parts on the lighter interior must be equipped with a safety cage. D1 was separated from the subseries D1DL (Stree Legal), there are only allowed to attend regular cars without any modification. The machine goes into a skid as a result of loss of adhesion between wheels and road surface. There are several ways to cause slip. The most common - understeer - the front wheels lose traction with the road. Usually it occurs when the driver twisted the wheel (for example, to avoid a sudden obstacle), the wheels lose grip and the car becomes unmanageable, as the wheels are locked brakes. Or rotational force on the wheels is not enough to grip, they slip in one direction, and the car is in another. Another type of introduction - oversteer - the loss of traction the rear wheels to the road. With such a skidding car turns up more than the specified wheel, as a result of slipping sideways or turns on its axis. Professional pilots are easily controlled with drift, in contrast to ordinary motorists who do not know the technique of drift. The greater the load on the axle, the better the adhesion of rubber to the road surface. If in turn begin to brake, the car turns much. To properly start up the car in the slide, it is necessary during a turn to lock the front wheels - so increasing the centrifugal acceleration. However, the wheels do not have to lose coupling with the ground. At this time the rear wheels have little traction if the work on them any additional incentive, there will be a skid, the activity of which depends on the centrifugal acceleration in the drift. To eliminate coupling the rear wheels to the road, often used the hand brake. Harder to put the car into a skid at a speed under the influence of the deflection point of the centrifugal force. The pilot must properly distribute the load on the axle, or rear wheels will not go into a skid under the influence of centrifugal force in rotation. Typically, such a technique used rallisty - they take turns at high speed and with the help of slide set machine direction to exit the turn. In some cases, to create a larger angle of skidding machine is fed in the opposite direction and then abruptly enters a turn. For this pilot is actively spinning wheel to remove the hitch rear wheels to the road. The machine should go at high speed and the driver - to adjust the steering angle, to distribute the load on the axes. The greater the friction coefficient of road surface with the tires, the faster the machine will maneuver at high speed.