What confuses me is that it's oriented for an inside reader.

maybe so people driving from behind can see it

That's something between him and a car. :P Seriously, when a other driver in front of him look at a sticker on his mirror it's fine (I think).

Theres a LOT of videos from this guy, look him up here on KZfaq, runningfree86

Erickridebikes lol

yeah I'm scared just watching on a big screen!

Havn't heard of that, can you explain?

Jack954125 The car has probably an aftermarket transmission with no 5th gear but a "3,5" in its place for a greater acceleration, check the video you will see that he shifts to 5th gear after the third one ;)

I saw it in the video, just wondered why you would take out 4th as its easier/quicker than going 3rd to 5th. It didn't sound like 5th, revs hardly dropped. Looks and sounds like 4th has been to moved to where 5th should be but I don't get why. Like, what is a "3,5 gearbox".

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He is in a AE86 you don’t really need to pull the hand brake

3,5 gear

Red hatch was getting some sick angle, maybe he had extra horse powers helping that though.

kel f 3.5 gear 1-3-3.5 2-4-R

My guess is that when he dont need to gain any more speed, he might as well put it in fifth and give the car a second to rest, at most times the revs are pretty close to the redline.

Philippe Rochester I spotted that, still sounds like 4th though, unless it's running a modified ratio in place of 5th that wouldn't fit where 4th is?

Philippe Rochester its a (i believe) TRD gearbox. the 5th gear is geared between 3rd and 4th gear. to shorten the gearing and close the gap between 3rd & 4th

I believe it has whats called a "cross mission". 5th gear is really like 3.5th gear

He has an Adelia transmission that replaces the 1-3-5 shaft with a 1-3-3.5 gear. You lose fifth but get an extra gear where you need it.

Илья Чубуков Я также помню!

Hunger. Mid-drift snack. Etc.

Mid-drift snack.

sybex666 also curious

sybex666 an umaibo "snack-candy"

It's an umaibo.

According to the guy in the actual video one million yen

So about what they cost here in the United States lol

traffic behind him im sure. youre not supposed to just cut back on the track as soon as you go off.

ultimatemtb That's what my friend thought. Couldn't he wait a bit? I am sure there weren't 10000 cars on the track :( I feel bad about the car

Im not sure if you understand how traction works on the gravel / dirt but as soon as he would try to steer his car back on the road, the 2 wheels that would hit the road first would have more grip than the wheels that are still on the gravel / dirt and the car would have the tendency to spin out. As you can kind of see at 7:41. That's why he tried to steer as less as possible to get back on the road without spinning out :)

:( Yeah but if you drive like 20-30km/h to get back on the road you should be ok.

***** That is true, he could've just slowed down. But you don't always think clearly when you're under pressure :P

Braed ae86 drivers don't use handbrake

At what point is he understeering? not being able to hold a drift does not equal understeer, it's an AE86 with a 4AGE of course it's not going to be able to hold really long drifts without a lot of speed.

DriftNick There's several points where he's struggling to remain sideways. Using the handbrake would have helped a lot

Braed can you point any of them out? I fail to see where he could have used the handbrake and it help maintain the drift.

Perhaps not, it just seemed like he was having a hard time.

I'm inclined to agree, considering it snapped straight/left on the last right hander onto the straight, immediately before. Maybe the front left was going flat? Or something wasn't right in the suspension...