Steve's GKD Legend

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Monday 9 October 2017

Drifting attempt

While on a business trip to Frankfurt I took the opportunity to drive over to Nürburg which took about 2 hours. Stayed the night in an Airbnb and then spent whole of the next day at Nürburgring doing a Caterham drifting course. A fairly good day of driving around cones on a parking lot. It could have been better with less people. Too many people, ie 20 + with just two cars meant that there was an hour wait between driving. I would estimate that I drove around the track approximately 16 times, each lap taking around 45 seconds. At 295€ it would have been better and more worthwhile with more one-on-one tuition. There were possibilities to get last minute tips while the safety belt and steering wheel were put in place but nothing noteworthy. 


Another aspect that was not so good was the scoring based only on time only and not on style. The idea, at least for me, was to learn how to drift and not get around the track as fast as possible. Of course with professional drifting one can do that but not while one is learning. Anyway it still made me decide to get my little car kitted out with an LSD.