[Ridenour]

"Straight-line drifts", anyone?

Yes I have a FWD Grand Am GT, and there's many a beautiful perfectly flat gravel road near my house, with level fields on each side = ditchless = nothing to hit when loosing control. I've performed many a mad set of straightline drifts going down those stretches. My avg speed was usually around 45 mph, and my top once was about 60ish on a whole stretch.

It really wasn't too hard at all. I'd imagine it'd be more difficult on dry pavement though. My steering and throttle movements were sort of buffered / cushioned on the gravel, allowing more margin for error / correction I believe, then say on pavement. It was a lot of fun though, and never had any mishaps. Even if I did totally lose it, whenever I was doing it there was nothing to hit / rip up my suspension. I stopped doing it however, do to the fact that I have bad struts, and they need to make it through this winter (I'm waiting for KYB's AGX series for my car) - and I just got new tires; so no more beeting on my cars suspension / tires. It was fun back in the day, but I need to rely on my car too much nowadays to haul my ass 70+ miles per day.