Your longest drift in 300-series car?

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Your longest drift in 300-series car?

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I did this morning around 200 meters drift to slight uphill, car was constantly sideways and it was not accelerating too fast :P

Yes, of course it was icy road :D
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Mine is approximately 0m. I'm terrified to do anything flashy.
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i've had about 300 yards across a field but it was tankslapping from side to side - wasnt straight at any point thou :)
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Which of your cars was that in?
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Yesterday I did a long slide on a right turn. Pulled out of the sideroad and the rear wheels were sliding all the way onto the main road and to the other side of the roundabout. sm43

I've powerslid the car a few hundred metres, but that was on snow so thats cheating :P I've fishtailed a few times, scary! Its an easy mistake if you overcorrect.
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Don't get enough snow or here to be drifting for long distances! :(

Solomanda, are you coming to the MK meet? A few islands in MK I've heard :P
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that was in nessy - the only car i've really taken to the limits
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Hugh, I've had similar tankslapping, only on my mountain board kiting ;) (Won't mention the fact that Kar did it not long after I got it, was damn lucky not to write it off). Best I've had is 2 and a bit laps on a private roundabout (One of my mates had a hoooge drive with one at the end ;))
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Steve, lots of nice roundabouts at MK. Coming depends on my cash flow at the time!
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jtbo wrote:I did this morning around 200 meters drift to slight uphill, car was constantly sideways and it was not accelerating too fast :P

Yes, of course it was icy road :D
this winter, about 200-250 meters, took 4 tries to get up the bloody hill.. :lol:
half of the time the rear wheels was in the ditch, got kinda funny looks by the 2 people driving in the opposite direction
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it wasnt me :roll:
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I remember how bad those tires were back then on my car.

Well, drift is perhaps not correct term, powersliding maybe or just car refusing to go straight when climbing up the hill :lol:

Hmm, I have had 300 now something like 9 years and I have driven it 3 years of that, maybe I should just accept that I will probably never afford to drive it any more...
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NO! Never give up the dream

I mean... what else are you going to do with your spare time? :lol:
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Speedy88 wrote:NO! Never give up the dream

I mean... what else are you going to do with your spare time? :lol:
Mostly fixing house, breathing/eating sawdust, finding out two or more places to repair for each started repair, bit similar to car repairing actually in that sense.

Growing own food and increasing self sufficiency level so that don't need to work more than 2-3 months a year, which kind of gives and takes freetime.

Well there is also another dream to become indie game developer, which I hope one day might lead to profession as my current career is at dead end, too much competition to be able to work at my own pace.
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