Is drifting really faster?

[El_Camino]

banpei Wrote:

El_Camino Wrote:So Ivan, you believe for hairpin turns it is better to drift that to grip?
It is possible, but when talking about track I think about Nascar, DTM, Formula 1.

As I said before: in normal races you want to save your tires, brakes, fuel because a normal race is an endurance race. In a one lap race it doesn't really matter: you can go over the limit if you want...

Banpei, exactly this is the question - where is the limit! And its not important for one lap or a whole race - its about the principle.
If drifting can be fast driving, and and as you are saying, they are saving tires, then it would be often (or at least sometimes) happening, that Schumacher or Frenzen would allow themselves to go drifting, just to overtake somebody in a very very important turn. Or maybe at the last lap of the race everybody will be drifting, because no need to save tires?
No - thats not the case. Nobody is even thinking about it ... and this is why I'm still doubting that there is a way to go faster sliding.