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1 word... "Knowledge"! lol

or, if you prefer... "An Expansion In Intelligence"!!! rofl

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explain.

I know this is just an assumption, and feel free to prove me wrong, but i bet that you dont even have a good understanding of cars.

Here, let's find out:

1. Is inertia drifting a great, effective way to negotiate linked corners, or is it a quite difficult maneuver that should be left to very experienced drifters?

2. Does using the gutter help cornering a lot, a little, somewhat, or not at all?

3. On what kinds of cars will brake pads wear out after a single run down a mountain road?

4. What does lowering and stiffening the suspension of a car do? (hint: I'm looking for more of an answer than just "it helps cornering")

5. What would happen if a car "jumped" at Irohazaka?

Well, Corolla Drifter chose to PM me his answers, and unless he wants to share them here himself, I'll let him keep them private. Here are the "correct" answers, more or less:

1. Inertia drifting is very difficult. Many professional drifters agree on this, because with many cars, it's far too easy to "throw" the car too hard into a drift, which will lead to a spin, even if you're countersteering fully.

2. Gutters can help a little bit (if they're the right shape), but not very much, because the majority of the cornering load is placed on the outside tires, and the slope of the gutter can reduce the size of the inside tires' contact patches. It all depends on the shape of the gutter, but it's unlikely that you could get much more than "some" help from any gutter.

3. Despite what many Initial D fans probably think, 4WD or AWD has nothing to do with it. Weight and speed are the only factors in determining how fast a set of brake pads will wear, but "heavy cars" isn't the answer either.

It's actually a trick question -- if brake pads are worn out after a single run down a mountain road, they're either really crappy brake pads, or very, very grippy ones. Nakazato's brake pads should have been just fine -- his brake system might have been overheating, but his pads should have been fine.

4. It lowers the roll center of the car, as well as the amount of roll experienced during cornering. It also sharpens a car's responses, and reduces the amount of weight transfer that is possible. Finally, stiffening the front of the car increases understeer, while stiffening the rear of the car increases oversteer.

5. One or more of the following: body damage, frame damage, suspension damage, rim damage, blown tires, an embarassed driver behind the steering wheel who gets laughed at by anyone who happened to see the jump.

Is anybody else sick of noob bitches???

no, sorry for the confusion, reading it again it does look that way. I meant to say that you must be sick of noobs, because you made a test to find out who was noob.