You make doughnuts!

 

hahahah yes that looks like too much fun!

 

Dumb questing, but for real, what is the proper technique for snow drifts and snow donuts? Do you just cut the wheel and give it gas? Somehow made it 22 years without doing anything fun with a car and now that I have an RA I don't even know where to begin.

 

To be honest, I never really thought about it.

Usually I leave it in snow mode (for snow, haha). If I just cut the wheel I end up doing a really tight 180 and if I lay on it, i'll end up rotating the car about it's center. Unlike a RWD car where you're rotating around the front wheel, you end up rotating more around a point where your arm rest would be.

If you start off by going in a slight circle, pick up some speed, then crank the wheel and floor it, then it'll start going sideways and you can balance the turning radius with a combination of the throttle and steering input.

 

If you leave it in Tarmac it will be more bias towards the back wheels. As for the technique, if you just crank the wheel and hit the gas you will just do a 180 and stop spinning. you have to actually drift in a circle, youtube ken block drifting (the master). As simple as it seems it does take some practice to feel it out but not that hard, took me like 15min in a snowy parking lot.