**Progress and Improvements in Drifting**

I recently had the opportunity to work with Chelsea on his drifting skills, and I was impressed by the progress he made during our session. Not only did he demonstrate a good understanding of the basics of drifting, but he also showed improvement in his ability to adapt to different conditions and track layouts.

**The Session**

During our session, Chelsea began by showing me that he had done his homework on the car we were working with. He told me that he scored 69 in his last event, which he attributed to being "nice" because I was nice to him. This made me chuckle, as I knew that Chelsea's performance was not solely due to my niceness.

**The Track**

One of the aspects that impressed me most about Chelsea's driving style was his ability to adapt to different track conditions. We were working on a skid pad in Orlando, which is not typically considered ideal for drifting. However, Chelsea showed that he could handle it with ease and even demonstrated some impressive skills.

**Data Analysis**

I also appreciated the data analysis we did during our session. I used my laptop to overlay Chelsea's driving data onto the track layout, which gave us a better understanding of his performance. This was particularly useful in identifying areas where Chelsea struggled and where he excelled.

**Adjustments and Improvements**

Throughout the session, we made several adjustments to Chelsea's car and driving style. We adjusted the brake bias to help improve his braking performance, especially on the left side of the car. I also noted that Chelsea often referred to "floor" when discussing throttle control, but it was clear that he wasn't always applying enough throttle.

**Chassis and Chasing Leads**

One of the key areas we worked on during our session was the chassis. We identified a few areas where Chelsea's car was understeering or oversteering, which affected his overall performance. I also made sure to give him plenty of leads to chase, as well as some challenging obstacles to overcome.

**Turbo Cars and Power Band**

Chelsea mentioned that he's used to driving turbo cars, where the power band is more forgiving. However, our car was quite different from what he's used to. The power band was much more linear, with a bigger difference between throttle openings. This required Chelsea to be more precise with his throttle control and adjust his driving style accordingly.

**Nitrous and Power**

We also experimented with nitrous during the session, which added an extra layer of challenge for Chelsea. He had to quickly adapt to the sudden surge in power, which was quite different from driving a non-turbo car. Overall, he handled it well and demonstrated impressive skills under pressure.

**Grip and Chassis Adjustments**

Finally, we discussed the importance of grip and chassis adjustments. Chelsea mentioned that there's still room for improvement in terms of grip, as well as some areas where the chassis could be tweaked to improve overall performance. I made a note to ourselves to explore these areas further during our next session.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I was impressed by Chelsea's progress and improvement during our drifting session. He demonstrated a good understanding of the basics of drifting, but also showed that he was willing to adapt and learn. With continued practice and refinement, I have no doubt that he'll continue to improve his skills and become an even more formidable competitor in the world of drifting.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmorning guys and welcome to today's video we got a lot to be excited about but one of the things that made my morning we're here at sheetz if you're a woodward boy like me you'll remember this place not special there's a wilbert experience we're driving vaughn's personal rtr spec five look at chelsea in the passenger seat uh over to the track we're going to nc car today we're gonna track all to ourselves we're gonna have some fun in the spec 5ds the real fd drift cars this thing is something else morning chelsea hey good morning yeah something i forgot to mention in yesterday's video there's a lot of people i saw when they've been suspecting i'm going to be driving for rtr it's like well how is he going to transition to the chassis whatever yadda yadda chelsea has helped the team tremendously and from what i'm told the car drives extremely similar like one of my favorite drift cars on the planet that was also kind of guided set up wise by you the e36 yeah so we're gonna drive some e36s today just point it and floor it all right that's what i'm gonna do with this thing too gotta make a quick pit stop at autozone picking up a watch battery for my mic uh today i'm gonna try to just do the best job covering behind the scenes and miking up my helmet so you guys can hear the whole experience so yesterday when we originally got tossed the keys to this we didn't know if it was supercharged and uh we thought it was slow at first and we quickly found out that it was not e92 m3 tried to race us chelsea was driving no chance spinning all through very high speeds while passing the z92 m3 it was great while he was racing you could say that this car has enough power to get yourself in trouble oh yeah right chelsea did a good job yeah this thing rips give her a rip amazing the tires on the highway it's intensely yeah it's not bad it's real good way better than i had automatic transmission yeah i don't think you can build them to make as much power as the six speeds maybe not then but i think you can now yeah so we've got a track today to ourselves called nc car north carolina center for automotive research you're saying they do some testing here yeah they do all sorts of testing the guy will probably walk you through it but all different automotive testing ford uses it we use it a lot of the colleges use it that's cool yeah i really dig a little subtle livery on this thing the body kit's cool too colette's going to love this thing with the neon yellow bone let me and chelsea steal this thing to drive up here like three hours and it only has like 1400 miles on it it's pretty neat i just took it around the track to kind of get uh acclimated i know chelsea's setting up some cones right now and we're gonna kind of do a little transition exercises just get comfortable with the car before we go start sending it on the road course so we come all the way out to this beautiful track adam broke his car before he even drove it i didn't i wasn't even gonna get into that he got it started it yesterday and messed the flywheel up the guys are already uh almost done fixing it but in the meantime we're gonna search the skid pad with chelsea's car what's the plan i figured while they're fixing your you can get in turn a couple laps in this thing they're pretty much identical just different handbrake and seating position the seat time can't hurt so it's just a little technical skid pad setup just to get warmed up comfortable just like i'm getting the car so second click third leave it in third ripper yep just have fun all right yeah no no expectation just go what's the rev limit out that's what i need to know uh like around 8 800 9000. i thought it was eight that's why i was driving like such a yeah ron's got all sorts of weird going on in his dash to save him oh my shit's raw all right you're good let's do it definitely definitely feels weirder than when i did my burnout i started using the handbrake a little bit ah not bad well good for my first time out this thing's hooked up just you can't really like i definitely got a handbrake it was weird trying to do my uh little donut at first ah feels thick very easy to drive it's fun i pushed a little bit uh not as hard as i needed to in the beginning kind of push a little deeper i feel a lot more comfortable than i expected though so i'm pumped about that adam doing some testing in chelsea's car i stole his bike let's get some shots welcome to team dog so so i felt better on the um the last corner like just staying committed it was a little scary though to like trust the angle it works though yeah that was the best run you had through there you actually got out to the zone where the cones so freaking cool chelsea did a really good job setting up the course to where i kind of challenged me and pushed me more than just a normal figure eight with like few little extensions and stuff the team got my car back together so uh chelsea's about to go give it a shot in his car see how it feels if we need to make any adjustments we'll if not i'm gonna go try it in my car now maybe we'll tandem a little bit in this area before we go on the big track big track is just like we're gonna use a set of tires pretty much every time we go out or this we can get a couple laps so for now getting feedback and like really getting acclimated to the car this is working really well all right now i know how high i can rub this thing because i definitely don't feel like i was rubbing it that high a little saucy on that one but it felt good yeah the grip now feels a little bit more balanced to where i don't feel like i'm ice skating um but yeah i knew i just like like i was a little bit too focused on just staying in that zone and like wasn't looking far enough ahead so i got to a little bit late but i saved it like on the lap i did was just like that last cone after the first outer zone i kind of come here i come past it i add angle and like go like that and then transition because then i'm set up super early to go through that yeah so i cut get back towards the inside like later apex the the cone so yeah it's really just like if you load it up too much like you're saying the the steering wheel figure out what it like just whips it does weird stuff it has too much cell steer high angle to high angle and not enough low angle alone i just feel like the feedback is numb on transition so like i just feel like i don't know what to do it's weird yeah i mean that's how i feel okay we've been working on it with other but the last change was uh changing the bar pick up points do you want me to uh do i have enough tire for another okay how's he feeling out there i think he's good let's figure the throttle out that's a big big difference between the cars and then how the cars transition because they have so much forward bite that it feels loose in the transition are you feeling more confident in this one than the chelseas all right feeling good now that felt really good it's fun to shift this thing fast big track time so you so the car felt like it was way more hooked up that last hit than it was before you were just barely on the throttle um it feels too loose in the front like in the corner like i have no wheels what's up what do you mean you're sitting at a point where you're at the bottom left side of the box where the car is trying to hook up no but even even when i'm on it i just like i if i need to make any adjustments like i had to handbrake mid corner i i couldn't i had zero in the steering i don't think you're giving it more than 70 throughout the hole i'm also over snapping a little bit going to uh each corner so i'm like you know what i mean look at the law before we make this change but uh we can just make this change i'm definitely over snapping though coming into each corner rather than like snapping to a shallower line and being able to hold the whole corner you're hooking it way too fast like way too just much her butt you got your damn wheel speed i was floored the whole time look at the log the right run right here look so chelsea chelsea 99 in the corner that's not right yeah that's where i was tech though in his mind that's good lifting when you do the left foot break at the same time is hurting you to be achieved with the left foot brake does so if you left foot brake you push the gas harder well he's already on and the motors just held down but it's held down perfect like 7 200 73 the wheel speed and throughout the turn it's good it's just halfway through the turn you start doing that left foot break and it the whole rest of your turn is like throw it away because of it so you can do left foot brake totally cool but you can't left foot brake and reduce your wheel speed at the same time we doing all right i think we got the shot adam's last line dude you got to see his phone is plastered with mud oh it's awesome dude this is him right here but it's fine look how dark it is one two three boom it's crazy with how much is going on today to even try to comment and document on all that has been overwhelming i've just been trying to be present and enjoy this insane opportunity and what still doesn't feel like reality to me the car is everything i expected the suspension feels amazing the grip with the nitto tire feels amazing chelsea did a really good job specking out the bcs for this car but overall uh it's just been freaking cool you know i got two tandems with chelsea first one i got a little lost but both of our cars need a little bit of setup tweaks but we ran out of time for the day we will be though trailing into tomorrow where we still have quite a few tires left to burn so uh i don't know if i'll vlog anymore tonight we're all gonna go out to dinner with the team it's a blast hanging out with these guys they're so cool uh but yeah i'm doing my best to document this and i hope you guys are enjoying it because it's uh it's a lot of fun wow look at this this is a this is a site right here so it does have the yellow foam in there oh it does yeah oh we're talking about valve cover rv stands all right all of us need a cigarette hanging out of our mouth yeah so it looks legit it's so cool seeing vaughn work on an rv this is uh i love it this is pokey nagato right here yeah i was like are you being nice for the camera are you just being nice because you're nice all right chelsea i am nice i just scored 69 in my last event that you're right and then they changed it because they didn't want to let you know that satisfaction they did how did i do today yeah good wheeling you looked awful the first few tries and then you overdrove it then you underdrove it then you overdrove it then you underdrove it and we found a good spot in the middle where i think you last few laps were pretty solid on the big track i think if you went back to here you'd even though this is like everybody probably looks at this like oh it's a skid pad whatever and he's like try to skid pad in orlando all the time but it's not the same like in an fd car so it was cool to see that progress happen and i put some really bad lead runs down for you to chase at the end because we forgot to raise my rev limiter so that was fun uh but tomorrow we'll get some more but yeah good wheeling i think that uh i think we're good i think we gotta get some progress tomorrow maybe we got 12 or 14 tires left for that and then uh hopefully progress for you some more and then it was really cool seeing the the data the way that you overlaid on the track is that based on gps or is that just okay just being able to see the areas of the track and like literally looking at it and see where i'm on throttle because we had some arguments and some of them i was right some of them you're right you were right one of them yeah i was right like 10 of them all right whatever but and you still weren't right because you said you were floor but you were at 98 throttle oh i forgot to mention to you when we adjusted the brake bias that helped the left foot breaking a ton yeah because basically we must have more bias to it the rear brakes were working more when i was left with braking on vaughn's car when i drove it or my new car i should say so whenever i was left with braking it would push a bunch but i was also bleeding off the throttle so it's just like a bunch of stuff exaggerating but then when we swapped it pretty much all the way to the front it's not pretty much all the way to the front it's like still like probably only 70 percent front brake got it it still does a lot of rear brake and the problem is with drift cars people don't realize this but when you go out and you get you drifting left foot break whatever you heat the rear pads up but you don't heat the front ones up so the rear bias is always more aggressive anyway just because you always have more heat in the rear i didn't think about that yeah i like having a little bit of rear brake on the turbo cars because it kind of keeps them loaded versus just like flashing the tires yeah but on these cars it's different i think i always just drove a turbo car to the point where i never let it shut the throttle body yeah i always would keep it open to let the turbo keep spinning kind of deal so when i cracked it back up and it was kind of ready to go but the biggest thing for me today i think was a getting used to the transition which is just a little bit different from what i'm used to and then the just the power band it's just so much different compared to what i'm used to driving and like even it's weird because you think a turbo car you need to drive more up top with the turbo car you can get away with kind of lugging it as long as you're in boost and you can i feel like i i'd pedal the turbo car more and it has more i don't know you know what i'm saying like once you have the throttle body crack on a turbo car if you dino tune a turbo car at 30 throttle it makes 85 of its power still yeah right where these are not like that at all oh and killing the sound headphone users beware but yeah so basically uh with this car it's very linear as the gas pedal is just like a horsepower type of thing so even with the nitrous on now it feels a little bit more like a turbo car because it hits hard now instead of it just hitting and gaining power this just like hits and then just bam to the moon like tons of power but yeah you still gotta you have to give it more throttle all the time than you think yep but then you have more right foot once you're doing it what do you think we were driving with probably like 900 wheel a thousand probably close to a thousand cool there's still room for more yeah there's still room for more and more grip and more chassis memorning guys and welcome to today's video we got a lot to be excited about but one of the things that made my morning we're here at sheetz if you're a woodward boy like me you'll remember this place not special there's a wilbert experience we're driving vaughn's personal rtr spec five look at chelsea in the passenger seat uh over to the track we're going to nc car today we're gonna track all to ourselves we're gonna have some fun in the spec 5ds the real fd drift cars this thing is something else morning chelsea hey good morning yeah something i forgot to mention in yesterday's video there's a lot of people i saw when they've been suspecting i'm going to be driving for rtr it's like well how is he going to transition to the chassis whatever yadda yadda chelsea has helped the team tremendously and from what i'm told the car drives extremely similar like one of my favorite drift cars on the planet that was also kind of guided set up wise by you the e36 yeah so we're gonna drive some e36s today just point it and floor it all right that's what i'm gonna do with this thing too gotta make a quick pit stop at autozone picking up a watch battery for my mic uh today i'm gonna try to just do the best job covering behind the scenes and miking up my helmet so you guys can hear the whole experience so yesterday when we originally got tossed the keys to this we didn't know if it was supercharged and uh we thought it was slow at first and we quickly found out that it was not e92 m3 tried to race us chelsea was driving no chance spinning all through very high speeds while passing the z92 m3 it was great while he was racing you could say that this car has enough power to get yourself in trouble oh yeah right chelsea did a good job yeah this thing rips give her a rip amazing the tires on the highway it's intensely yeah it's not bad it's real good way better than i had automatic transmission yeah i don't think you can build them to make as much power as the six speeds maybe not then but i think you can now yeah so we've got a track today to ourselves called nc car north carolina center for automotive research you're saying they do some testing here yeah they do all sorts of testing the guy will probably walk you through it but all different automotive testing ford uses it we use it a lot of the colleges use it that's cool yeah i really dig a little subtle livery on this thing the body kit's cool too colette's going to love this thing with the neon yellow bone let me and chelsea steal this thing to drive up here like three hours and it only has like 1400 miles on it it's pretty neat i just took it around the track to kind of get uh acclimated i know chelsea's setting up some cones right now and we're gonna kind of do a little transition exercises just get comfortable with the car before we go start sending it on the road course so we come all the way out to this beautiful track adam broke his car before he even drove it i didn't i wasn't even gonna get into that he got it started it yesterday and messed the flywheel up the guys are already uh almost done fixing it but in the meantime we're gonna search the skid pad with chelsea's car what's the plan i figured while they're fixing your you can get in turn a couple laps in this thing they're pretty much identical just different handbrake and seating position the seat time can't hurt so it's just a little technical skid pad setup just to get warmed up comfortable just like i'm getting the car so second click third leave it in third ripper yep just have fun all right yeah no no expectation just go what's the rev limit out that's what i need to know uh like around 8 800 9000. i thought it was eight that's why i was driving like such a yeah ron's got all sorts of weird going on in his dash to save him oh my shit's raw all right you're good let's do it definitely definitely feels weirder than when i did my burnout i started using the handbrake a little bit ah not bad well good for my first time out this thing's hooked up just you can't really like i definitely got a handbrake it was weird trying to do my uh little donut at first ah feels thick very easy to drive it's fun i pushed a little bit uh not as hard as i needed to in the beginning kind of push a little deeper i feel a lot more comfortable than i expected though so i'm pumped about that adam doing some testing in chelsea's car i stole his bike let's get some shots welcome to team dog so so i felt better on the um the last corner like just staying committed it was a little scary though to like trust the angle it works though yeah that was the best run you had through there you actually got out to the zone where the cones so freaking cool chelsea did a really good job setting up the course to where i kind of challenged me and pushed me more than just a normal figure eight with like few little extensions and stuff the team got my car back together so uh chelsea's about to go give it a shot in his car see how it feels if we need to make any adjustments we'll if not i'm gonna go try it in my car now maybe we'll tandem a little bit in this area before we go on the big track big track is just like we're gonna use a set of tires pretty much every time we go out or this we can get a couple laps so for now getting feedback and like really getting acclimated to the car this is working really well all right now i know how high i can rub this thing because i definitely don't feel like i was rubbing it that high a little saucy on that one but it felt good yeah the grip now feels a little bit more balanced to where i don't feel like i'm ice skating um but yeah i knew i just like like i was a little bit too focused on just staying in that zone and like wasn't looking far enough ahead so i got to a little bit late but i saved it like on the lap i did was just like that last cone after the first outer zone i kind of come here i come past it i add angle and like go like that and then transition because then i'm set up super early to go through that yeah so i cut get back towards the inside like later apex the the cone so yeah it's really just like if you load it up too much like you're saying the the steering wheel figure out what it like just whips it does weird stuff it has too much cell steer high angle to high angle and not enough low angle alone i just feel like the feedback is numb on transition so like i just feel like i don't know what to do it's weird yeah i mean that's how i feel okay we've been working on it with other but the last change was uh changing the bar pick up points do you want me to uh do i have enough tire for another okay how's he feeling out there i think he's good let's figure the throttle out that's a big big difference between the cars and then how the cars transition because they have so much forward bite that it feels loose in the transition are you feeling more confident in this one than the chelseas all right feeling good now that felt really good it's fun to shift this thing fast big track time so you so the car felt like it was way more hooked up that last hit than it was before you were just barely on the throttle um it feels too loose in the front like in the corner like i have no wheels what's up what do you mean you're sitting at a point where you're at the bottom left side of the box where the car is trying to hook up no but even even when i'm on it i just like i if i need to make any adjustments like i had to handbrake mid corner i i couldn't i had zero in the steering i don't think you're giving it more than 70 throughout the hole i'm also over snapping a little bit going to uh each corner so i'm like you know what i mean look at the law before we make this change but uh we can just make this change i'm definitely over snapping though coming into each corner rather than like snapping to a shallower line and being able to hold the whole corner you're hooking it way too fast like way too just much her butt you got your damn wheel speed i was floored the whole time look at the log the right run right here look so chelsea chelsea 99 in the corner that's not right yeah that's where i was tech though in his mind that's good lifting when you do the left foot break at the same time is hurting you to be achieved with the left foot brake does so if you left foot brake you push the gas harder well he's already on and the motors just held down but it's held down perfect like 7 200 73 the wheel speed and throughout the turn it's good it's just halfway through the turn you start doing that left foot break and it the whole rest of your turn is like throw it away because of it so you can do left foot brake totally cool but you can't left foot brake and reduce your wheel speed at the same time we doing all right i think we got the shot adam's last line dude you got to see his phone is plastered with mud oh it's awesome dude this is him right here but it's fine look how dark it is one two three boom it's crazy with how much is going on today to even try to comment and document on all that has been overwhelming i've just been trying to be present and enjoy this insane opportunity and what still doesn't feel like reality to me the car is everything i expected the suspension feels amazing the grip with the nitto tire feels amazing chelsea did a really good job specking out the bcs for this car but overall uh it's just been freaking cool you know i got two tandems with chelsea first one i got a little lost but both of our cars need a little bit of setup tweaks but we ran out of time for the day we will be though trailing into tomorrow where we still have quite a few tires left to burn so uh i don't know if i'll vlog anymore tonight we're all gonna go out to dinner with the team it's a blast hanging out with these guys they're so cool uh but yeah i'm doing my best to document this and i hope you guys are enjoying it because it's uh it's a lot of fun wow look at this this is a this is a site right here so it does have the yellow foam in there oh it does yeah oh we're talking about valve cover rv stands all right all of us need a cigarette hanging out of our mouth yeah so it looks legit it's so cool seeing vaughn work on an rv this is uh i love it this is pokey nagato right here yeah i was like are you being nice for the camera are you just being nice because you're nice all right chelsea i am nice i just scored 69 in my last event that you're right and then they changed it because they didn't want to let you know that satisfaction they did how did i do today yeah good wheeling you looked awful the first few tries and then you overdrove it then you underdrove it then you overdrove it then you underdrove it and we found a good spot in the middle where i think you last few laps were pretty solid on the big track i think if you went back to here you'd even though this is like everybody probably looks at this like oh it's a skid pad whatever and he's like try to skid pad in orlando all the time but it's not the same like in an fd car so it was cool to see that progress happen and i put some really bad lead runs down for you to chase at the end because we forgot to raise my rev limiter so that was fun uh but tomorrow we'll get some more but yeah good wheeling i think that uh i think we're good i think we gotta get some progress tomorrow maybe we got 12 or 14 tires left for that and then uh hopefully progress for you some more and then it was really cool seeing the the data the way that you overlaid on the track is that based on gps or is that just okay just being able to see the areas of the track and like literally looking at it and see where i'm on throttle because we had some arguments and some of them i was right some of them you're right you were right one of them yeah i was right like 10 of them all right whatever but and you still weren't right because you said you were floor but you were at 98 throttle oh i forgot to mention to you when we adjusted the brake bias that helped the left foot breaking a ton yeah because basically we must have more bias to it the rear brakes were working more when i was left with braking on vaughn's car when i drove it or my new car i should say so whenever i was left with braking it would push a bunch but i was also bleeding off the throttle so it's just like a bunch of stuff exaggerating but then when we swapped it pretty much all the way to the front it's not pretty much all the way to the front it's like still like probably only 70 percent front brake got it it still does a lot of rear brake and the problem is with drift cars people don't realize this but when you go out and you get you drifting left foot break whatever you heat the rear pads up but you don't heat the front ones up so the rear bias is always more aggressive anyway just because you always have more heat in the rear i didn't think about that yeah i like having a little bit of rear brake on the turbo cars because it kind of keeps them loaded versus just like flashing the tires yeah but on these cars it's different i think i always just drove a turbo car to the point where i never let it shut the throttle body yeah i always would keep it open to let the turbo keep spinning kind of deal so when i cracked it back up and it was kind of ready to go but the biggest thing for me today i think was a getting used to the transition which is just a little bit different from what i'm used to and then the just the power band it's just so much different compared to what i'm used to driving and like even it's weird because you think a turbo car you need to drive more up top with the turbo car you can get away with kind of lugging it as long as you're in boost and you can i feel like i i'd pedal the turbo car more and it has more i don't know you know what i'm saying like once you have the throttle body crack on a turbo car if you dino tune a turbo car at 30 throttle it makes 85 of its power still yeah right where these are not like that at all oh and killing the sound headphone users beware but yeah so basically uh with this car it's very linear as the gas pedal is just like a horsepower type of thing so even with the nitrous on now it feels a little bit more like a turbo car because it hits hard now instead of it just hitting and gaining power this just like hits and then just bam to the moon like tons of power but yeah you still gotta you have to give it more throttle all the time than you think yep but then you have more right foot once you're doing it what do you think we were driving with probably like 900 wheel a thousand probably close to a thousand cool there's still room for more yeah there's still room for more and more grip and more chassis me\n"