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Drifting is a very cool craze. I, for one, am not a huge fan of watching it unfold, but must admit that I'd love to be able to do what these professional and experienced pilots can do.
As with any sport, practice is of the essence. However, it will only take you so far if you lack talent. The likes of Ken Block and Vaughn Gittin Jr have gone through countless body panels, tires, brakes - cars even - to get to where they are today. One does not master the drift overnight.
This brings me to the point of this blog. We've recently put together a massive comparison test where we pitted a number of cars, including some that are targeted, in part, to drifters and fans of the sport. In Comparo 2.0, we tracked and road tested the cars to find out what they were really about.
As you may or may not know, the vast majority of cars automotive publications evaluate belong to car manufacturers. Generally speaking, we book or have the cars offered to us for road tests and no questions are asked. When we plan on doing something out of the ordinary with the cars, we always inform the maker of our intentions.
For the track portion of our comparison, we rented Autodrome St-Eustache (ASE) for a day and permitted ourselves to push the cars, somewhat. We lapped at between 6 and 7/10, never pushing the cars too hard out of respect for the carmakers that preferred we return the cars with some rubber and brake pads.
These, then, are the reasons why you will not see or read anything about us drifting the 2013 Scion FR-S, 2013 Subaru BRZ, 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T R-Spec and 2012 Mazda MX-5, because we didn't.
This does not detract from the fact that of the five drivers that day, two have extensive track experience and one holds a current FIA pilot's license, and that we did push the cars to a level where we were able to learn much about the cars' suspension dynamics, chassis, brakes and steering.
Yes, we would have liked to drift the poop out of some of the cars, especially the Subayotas and the Gen Coupe. And, well, maybe we did pull a few stunts that you will not find in the video, but that's just between you and I.
Don't miss out on our track and road comparison test. We also peeled away the layers of differences between the FR-S and BRZ, as well as picked our big winner: our favourite car of the test.
As with any sport, practice is of the essence. However, it will only take you so far if you lack talent. The likes of Ken Block and Vaughn Gittin Jr have gone through countless body panels, tires, brakes - cars even - to get to where they are today. One does not master the drift overnight.
This brings me to the point of this blog. We've recently put together a massive comparison test where we pitted a number of cars, including some that are targeted, in part, to drifters and fans of the sport. In Comparo 2.0, we tracked and road tested the cars to find out what they were really about.
As you may or may not know, the vast majority of cars automotive publications evaluate belong to car manufacturers. Generally speaking, we book or have the cars offered to us for road tests and no questions are asked. When we plan on doing something out of the ordinary with the cars, we always inform the maker of our intentions.
For the track portion of our comparison, we rented Autodrome St-Eustache (ASE) for a day and permitted ourselves to push the cars, somewhat. We lapped at between 6 and 7/10, never pushing the cars too hard out of respect for the carmakers that preferred we return the cars with some rubber and brake pads.
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| Photo: Mathieu St-Pierre |
These, then, are the reasons why you will not see or read anything about us drifting the 2013 Scion FR-S, 2013 Subaru BRZ, 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T R-Spec and 2012 Mazda MX-5, because we didn't.
This does not detract from the fact that of the five drivers that day, two have extensive track experience and one holds a current FIA pilot's license, and that we did push the cars to a level where we were able to learn much about the cars' suspension dynamics, chassis, brakes and steering.
Yes, we would have liked to drift the poop out of some of the cars, especially the Subayotas and the Gen Coupe. And, well, maybe we did pull a few stunts that you will not find in the video, but that's just between you and I.
Don't miss out on our track and road comparison test. We also peeled away the layers of differences between the FR-S and BRZ, as well as picked our big winner: our favourite car of the test.