The point here is to understand the basics of drifting : The effect of the actions on the wheel and on the accelerator pedal (amount and timing).

The following stages are to be validated: driving around circles with diameters of 300 feet, the aim is to keep the drift angle constant, in one direction and in the other. Then, you will be invited to drive « 8 patterns », which implies treading a track without understeering, with a constant drift angle, and exiting in line.
A few spins are to be expected.

The task consists in driving around these huge round-abouts, the largest of which represents a total length of 1 km, while keeping the skid angle constant, in one direction or in the other, at a significant speed, i.e. 75 mph for the outer circle. Once this technique has been acquired, the exercise will be complicated by changing the angle selected for skidding (increasing or decreasing the angle). Then steering along snail patterns will be proposed (by hugging the bend more or less at the pilot’s discretion). This is generally where the first off-track incidents occur.

Things are getting more complicated. We are now going to combine all the difficulties, while complying with each bend’s requirement: braking, path selection, drift angle and exiting the curve, but also slowing down the car while increasing the angle in a closing bend, “Scandinavian flick”, holding and increasing the drift angle in a straight between two curves with the same direction, synchronizing swing from one bend to the next. Be prepared for some amount of shovel work !

These are our star tracks: all the skills learned on the technical track have to be applied here with accuracy, at the right moment, and at high speed. The design of these mythical tracks, particularly suitable for ice driving with their fast straights, long curve combinations and braking sequences, will give you intense pleasure as soon as you are more familiar with the right techniques. Considering the speeds involved, which additionally require emotional control, a delay by half a second in path selection (for example, in the “Signes” curve) translates into a distance of 90 feet, and a possible severe off-track incident.
A four-wheel drive vehicle is then quite useful.