Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-99.105.24.18-20160817004904/@comment-27798333-20181011022740

SM Racer wrote: RandyMc wrote: While drifting is fun sometimes, a very long-standing 'rule' of racing is that anytime you lose traction, you lose speed. That's probably true 99.9% of the time. Do some time trials racing your own ghost. Get the best time you can, then try to keep up while drifting. It's very doubtful. Anytime I lose traction, even for a split second, my ghost car gets way ahead. Not so sure about this for cars with bad brakes as drifting seems to shed speed more efficiently than the brakes on those cars, so it might work in slow turns at the end of long straights. Kinda like how in RR3-land you can often slow down more quickly on the grass than you can on the pavement. Yes, you are correct. I thought about that right after I wrote that comment. But it really only applies in the game, and maybe older cars with lousy brakes. I've noticed many times in the game, I can go into a corner without hitting the brakes, throw the car sideways to slow down, and make a much faster lap than running clean. But that wouldn't work in a "real" situation, most of the time.