NickD
Dork
9/6/16 8:59 a.m.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/fOelONV_unQ
During a NY ST Club cruise on Rte 44 in New Paltz, NY someone attempted to drift mode a hairpin and wrecked their Focus RS spectacularly.
What's interesting to note is that the NY ST Club released a statement saying the organisation operates a zero tolerance policy toward dangerous driving, and the RS pilot responsible “was immediately booted from our club”. But if you watch from the second vantage point, you can hear over the radio that they are telling everyone to pull over and get out of the way because the guy is going to attempt drifting it.
At least it was just him and his wallet.
How many miles were on the car?
Hooning gone wrong. I wonder how much the $$ damages to the car will be?
DrBoost
UltimaDork
9/6/16 9:40 a.m.
I saw no drift angle at all.
I saw powerslide into carnage...
'Hey, hold my beer and get youtube rolling!'
NickD
Dork
9/6/16 9:54 a.m.
Apexcarver wrote:
Vidya is private
It wasn't. Must be the owner had it taken down or something.
bluej
UltraDork
9/6/16 10:16 a.m.
It looked like he tried to initiate the oversteer past the apex. Wonder if he'd ever actually "drifted" anything before that attempt.
Jalopcrap has a copy. Drifty fail
Duke
MegaDork
9/6/16 11:22 a.m.
The car actually looks to be in surprisingly good shape, considering the impact. And yeah, as others have mentioned, since he was 80% of the way around the turn when he went off, I'm failing to see any drift - especially since oversteer pretty much always puts you off the inside of the turn.
What a doofus, on several levels.
bluej wrote:
It looked like he tried to initiate the oversteer past the apex. Wonder if he'd ever actually "drifted" anything before that attempt.
Indeed, if you're not sliding before corner entry, you should not be sliding at corner exit. Video wasn't useful but it does, indeed, look like a clip from a Cars & Coffee fails compilation.
bahaha nice, GIF'ed for posterity.
I wonder how many times the new owner tried out drift mode in a closed-course environment like a big empty parking lot or track? I usually don't like to get wild with cars until I've thrown them around in anger. I've also learned my lesson in that regard too, after hoon-sliding into the only concrete light pole in an otherwise empty parking lot covered in snow.
bluej
UltraDork
9/6/16 1:15 p.m.
looking at the gif, I have to wonder if he had been in normal TC mode, if the car would have kept him from sliding off like that. teh iron EE's, he has them.
I love how people look around at the damage... "Maybe it's not so bad.... No, it's bad. I'm berkeleyed. My insurance is going to be awful. My dads going to kill me"
Must have some mustang parts in it.
I love the caption from the uploader of the video. They all pulled off to the side and they knew the guy was coming in hot but are trying to play it off like they don't condone that crap. I bet you they all wanted to see what drift mode was like. Well folks that just goes to show you you can't push a button and be a Drift King. How aboot acting like a Focus club is a prestigious club to be part of as well? Makes me want to buy a FoST just so I can join.
DirtyBird222 wrote:
I love the caption from the uploader of the video. They all pulled off to the side and they knew the guy was coming in hot but are trying to play it off like they don't condone that crap. I bet you they all wanted to see what drift mode was like. Well folks that just goes to show you you can't push a button and be a Drift King. How aboot acting like a Focus club is a prestigious club to be part of as well? Makes me want to buy a FoST just so I can join.
Well.... if I was driving down the road and it came over the radio that someone was going to do something kinda dumb, I'd get off the road too.
That said, I think you're right, it appears the guy seemed to think it put you into Keiichi Tsuchiya mode and you just push the button and you go sideways, instead of it telling the stability control to stop actively fighting you from throwing the car.
(ah, who am I kidding, guy probably hasn't heard of Tsuchiya)
DirtyBird222 wrote:
How aboot acting like a Focus club is a prestigious club to be part of as well? Makes me want to buy a FoST just so I can join.
My favorite part is that quote " We immediately kicked him out of the club."
Yeah because he failed miserably and brought shame to your probably just -graduated-from-some-other-tuner-car club. If he would have successfully pulled it off, you would be celebrating him.
Silly car clubs, losers with egos, false sense of security from technology (OMG BUT I HAD DRIFT MODE ON?!?!) .... so many reasons to avoid half the idiots in the car community these days.
I'm a member of the focus clubs (to sell parts) on the Facebook Groups. I don't know what it is about the ST and RS, but they seem to draw in the most aweful class of morons I've seen own a car.
Scooter wrote:
I'm a member of the focus clubs (to sell parts) on the Facebook Groups. I don't know what it is about the ST and RS, but they seem to draw in the most aweful class of morons I've seen own a car.
That could be my new forum name.....
aweful moron
Worst part is, that car isn't totaled. Some poor fool will buy it used and wonder why it's never right.
After watching The Stig test out Drift Mode on a track with a Ford engineer sitting shotgun, I have to say that it's a great concept, but in actual use it couldn't hit an apex if it wanted to.
This kid was in trouble before he even switched to Drift mode, between the inherent understeer in the chassis tuning and the kids inability to pilot said vehicle, it was a stacked deck.
A man's got to know his limitations.
Focus RS drive modes explained by Ben Collins
