Originally Posted by presidential

Did they give you hell for that?

Originally Posted by w0rd

I thought it was great. You demonstrated great car control and you didn't hold up the event any more than some other regular autocrossers usually do.

Originally Posted by Loren

I had one of the drift guys ride with me Sunday and he said that riding in my car was "scarier" than drifting. Here's why:

Looking at the videos, I timed drift boy at 12 seconds for a complete lap of the skidpad. Drew Scoda's Mustang did it in under 11 seconds. Doesn't sound like a huge difference, does it?

But, plugging those numbers into a spreadsheet I have for calculating G's on a skidpad and assuming that Drew was pulling about .9 G's shows that the skidpad radius is about 90 feet (it wasn't completely round, but that's close enough for comparison). The drifting 240 at 12 seconds? .77 G's.

Other comparisons:
My Yaris, 11 seconds (.91 G on crappy street tires)
Jack's S2000, 11 seconds (.91 G w/ race tires front, streets rear)
Carl's Miata, 10 seconds (1.1 G on race tires)
Tod's S2000, <10 seconds (1.1+ G on race tires)

Drifting is teh slow.