Is drifting really faster?

[Ivan141]

When you do more performance driving you'll find out soon enough what kind of slip angle works best. In my short experience I can say that you rarely get much slip on fast racing tracks in the long corners. On tight slalom tracks however the car feels best when you have a tiny bit of oversteer, you can feel it pretty well in the car, but you hardly notice it while looking at the car from the outside. That would be your 5% slip i think.

I could see on the slalom that our drifting forum members were going faster through a couple of hairpins doing full out drifts than me and mux driving grip through the same corners. On the wider stuff however it is completely pointless.