Here’s a quick little note about well the oddness of my day.

Do not attempt to make a Ford Focus sedan drift, it just doesn’t like to. Maybe if you get a better suspension or something, but as it stands the back end tends to snap around way too much. I mean in the Passat I could make her start the drift nice and smoothly and control it the whole way through the turn. With the focus it’s one moment fine, then the next the tail is almost parallel to you, then it snaps back the other way, then snaps again. All this with the proper counter-steering measure. But I am sort of mad at myself that I went and used the brake during the entire thing, mainly because when it snapped back I was aimed at some curbs and I well, didn’t want to smash into them and fuck up the car.

I wonder what the other driver thought since he basically saw the entire thing happen as he was waiting for a light to turn green, then when it did he started to come halfway near me but stopped a bit aways I guess waiting to see what would happen. If I was him I think I’d do a thought of horror for the person, then amusement as they went from side to side, then semi-awe as they finally caught it without managing to hit anything.

But basically that’s been my day in a nutshell..boring for a while, then utter excitement, only to return to boredom.

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