slalom vs drifting

[MikeO996]

Fancy an experience day to kick off this year ahead of the usual bunch of trackdays - but not sure which I will get most out of, a slalom day or a drift day. What I am most interested in is something that will give me more skills and confidence in car control at and over the limits.

Anybody got any thoughts as to which will be most useful???

[sjmmarsh]

A drift day is more likely to take you over the limit than a slalom day as you are trying to break the back end and hold it. A slalom day will teach you about oversteer and understeer and is more likely to be useful on the road.

Do both if you can afford it!

Steve

[nobodyknows]

I did a slalom day at Dunsfold a few years ago, great fun but given the choice I think I would have chosen the drift day.

[sjc]

I did the full day slalom. It worked out at 50 quid per minute of car time, and thought it was extremely poor value TBH.I'm doing a full circuit day soon in the hope it convinces me to sell the Noble buy one.

[7SS]

I did the circuit day a few years back. As stated above, very little time in the car for the price. Your profile suggests you have a Caterham already? Better to join a local club & sign up for an autotest then splash out on the slalom day.
The Caterham days are really a means for them to ty to sell the car. If you do go to one kid on your a potential customer, you'll get more time in the car than if they know you've already got one.

[MikeO996]

hmmm - sounds like I'd be better off spending my 250 quid on an instructor at a trackday

[Nicodema]

Hi Mike

Hope we'll bump into you again at a TD. We did Andy Walsh's Car Limits day in the R300 and it was awesome for getting a feel for what is going on at the limit of grip and just beyond. Andy's also a good laugh. I would council you to get some expendable tyres on before you go though, as you do end up effectively doing donuts on a rough surface for one of the exercises.

Failing that, the CDX Drift Days are great. You may not get as much seat time as other "drift what you brung days", but the instruction from Suds, Sam and the crew is good and they set up the cars to make them easier to learn on which is great.

Martyn