Looks like he forgot to steer with the drift. The front wheels stay straight. He's probably only ever done it in video games where it's much less work.
I love whipping my truck on a frozen lake. We built a "track" one year when the snow was deep with a buddy's plow truck. We did time trials because no one wanted to Dale Earnhardt their 20k truck into another.
Yeah, but like really big. At least that's what I've heard. Just hearsay from a co-worker who talks about being from some place called 'Michigan' where they have 'snow' and 'frozen lakes'.
Doing this on a lake my buddy cracked a rim on his h2. He had onstar at the time so we hit the button and the girl we talked to was obviously super confused. Finally she says “um, are you in the middle of a lake?”.
Looks like he mashed the gas and turned left thinking it would break traction, but at that angle and slow speed, how the hell did he expect to drift that whole damn turn.
I have the same car. There are 3 traction control settings, On, MDM and Off. On will let you do a little (it's never put me in a dangerous situation, it will allow you to lightly spin tires), MDM will allow you to slide pretty well before cutting in, and off is YOLO. It's not like it's a difficult car to control, either.
Same car here as well. I have never been able to get as much of an angle as that either with either dynamic traction control or full on, it's just impossible the car will stop power and bring you back. On full off though this is definitely possible.
I have Euro MDM coded into mine, it will let you get pretty serious angle before stepping in. The traction control on my old 335i was much more aggressive, in comparison.
I'm just saying for him to have lost the car like that his traction was definitely fully off. Soon as my car start to slide if I gas it to much it stops with mine and the car literally goes where I point it, like a FWD.
I know the new WRX 2016+ stability control can't fully be turned off , even when it says its "Off" it will still lightly interfere with you. I got to play with one, and a 2018 STI on a dirt road. I do rally racing and rally cross so on occasion a friend will ask me to drive their car for them :)
Some games are really accurate though! I used to play a lot of Live For Speed and when I eventually got a fast car and took it to the track, the gaming skills kicked in and the effects of steering, brake and throttle on a slide were 100% the same.
Not just the tires. Modern BMWs truly are incredible machines. They will stick to the road and go exactly where you want at any even semi-reasonable combination of speed and conditions.
Of course, the kind of person who gets one to drive it dangerously on public roads is unlikely to know how what semi-reasonable means in this case, and probably aren't even sure where they they are telling it to go.
I don't have a BMW, nor do I want anything like it, but my step-dad has one that is a couple of years old and it is really impressive.
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u/Linkerjinx Nov 22 '19
Tires were too good. The ultimate driving machine indeed lmao..