Comments on: Which is faster – Race Car or Drift Car?

By: Set

Set — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:33:43 +0000

Gittin Jr had a HP to weight advantage as was seen in the initial drag, but even still, the road racer is designed from the ground up to go around a road course as fast as possible. Drift cars aren’t. Plain and simple.

By: dudefromthenorth

dudefromthenorth — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:54:49 +0000

I’m sure the real racer could have been faster if the cock-blocking drift car hadn’t been swinging it’s tail this way and that. They should have taken separate timed trials.

By: djrosa

djrosa — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:07:11 +0000

well i hate to be a a-hole but what was the point of that whe now drifting is slower otherwise f1 drivers would still be driving like they did in the 70′s. sure if you are low on grip drifting might help you a bit in some corners but my guess would be if they did that test as a hotlap the difference would be maybe a second (which in racing is a year) as the racing car can get on the throttle earlier in most corners and get a higher exit speed. now anyone knows that conserving speed in the corners is the key to most forms of racing (sure in some cars you might want to be slower out of a corner to be fast in or vise versa) that being said pro/D1 drifters these days are really f*ng fast