Is The Ford Focus RS Faster On A Rally Course In Drift Mode, Or Track Mode?
Drift Mode in the Ford Focus RS is not supposed to make you faster. Nope, as the name implies it’s all about helping you throw drifty shapes by sending more power to the rear, softening up the suspension and making the steering a little lighter. Hopefully not resulting in you crashing on a public road. But what about on a dirt track - could Drift Mode actually make you faster?
Effective and fast rally driving requires a certain degree of movement from the rear axle, so you’d think slapping a lightly rally-prepped Focus RS in Drift Mode might actually make it faster. To see if that theory stacks up in the real world, the fine folk over at Jalopnik stuck Wyatt Knox of the Team O’Neil Rally School behind the wheel, and whipped out the stop watch.
Place your bets in the comments, watch the video, and see how right or wrong you were…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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With the Drift mode you can look cool and be a quick rally driver 😉
In drift mode you shore would have to ‘Focus’ on what you were doing. I couldn’t crash as I wouldn’t be able to afFORD a new one.
Please stop it with the puns.
Great puns. 😂😂
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Matt needs to do “Worst comments of the week”
minus 20… god damn!
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Hoe much does a soul go for nowadays? I have to get one!
You can use Focus RS as a snow slope attacker :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsmBVfTHnY0
Another type of car NOT to buy second hand…
I bet if in track mode it wasn’t fighting the yaw and locked up more it would have been faster
‘Drift mode’ slower for sure. In those conditions, its all about having a clean line, even if you don’t look that ‘awesome’.
tight bends on gravel are quite tricky when it comes to AWD.. you either have to punch the brake and brick the gas, or just have a rather weird setup in order to just get it right.. you actually have to navigate the center of gravity of the car around a bend with traction that varies depending on your throttle input.. do it too little and you understeer! do it just right and you will make it.. do it too much and you’re a legend xD
and by setup i mean either soft front suspension with stiff ARB and a not-so-locking differential setup and the exact opposite of that on the back.. or everything stiff with varying torque split.. or soft with brutally-locking diffs, or soft rear suspensions with stiff ARB and locker, with stiff suspension-soft ARB at the front with front-locking torque split.. the possibilities are endless :P rallying really is scientific :P