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January 6, 2008
Scandinavian Flick
By Rob
Editor-in-Chief
Motive just did a cool little writeup on the Scandinavian Flick, a move favored by rally drivers in icy conditions. Here’s how Bryan Joslin breaks down the maneuver (for making a right-hand turn):
1. Set up the car in a straight line before the onset of the turn. The car should be just to the left of the road’s centerline, to allow room for the tail to swing out.
2. Flick the steering wheel just slightly in the opposite direction of your intended turn, in this case a faint snap to the left. This will shift the car’s load dramatically, and build up inertial momentum.
3. Quickly move the wheel back in the direction of your intended turn, to the right in this example. The sudden change in direction will upset the chassis just enough to cause the back end of the car to over-react, pointing you in the direction of the turn, or even a little bit past it. To heighten this effect, you can either lift the throttle or provide a bit of left-foot braking just after the initial, opposite-direction flick (Step 2).
4. Once the car starts to rotate, apply just enough countersteering to put the car on its final trajectory.
5. With the car on its new heading, apply enough throttle to pull you through the turn, gradually trimming back the car’s rotation as you pull through the apex of the curve.
6. Exhale, unpucker, and declare to the onlooking moose that you’re the king of the North Country.
Full story and pics at MotiveMag.com.
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Paul
Jan 7, 2008 at 4:24 am
What are you talking about? Its the same right or left… I’ve done both.
Anonymous
Jan 6, 2008 at 10:03 pm
How come this didn’t work on the left turns. Crashed every time.
retroman
Jan 6, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I love how he says it comes in handy as a safety maneuver though the cops might not look at it that way. I live in NE Ohio where the Lake Effect weather is its worst (except for maybe in upstate Michigan). I’ll have to practice this in the gokart first, then maybe the car.
Paul
Jan 6, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I learned how to do this in FWD from Tiff Needel, and it is an awesome tool. I actually realized that I had been doing it before I knew what it was, but its all about the weight shift… Come to think of it, Keichi Tsuchiya teaches roughly the same thing in the drift bible…
Andy
Jan 6, 2008 at 11:20 am
I think i did that once on a snowy road when leaving base awhile back. I was coming down the hill out of the south gate leading to Box Elder road (highway 14/16). There’s an intersection at the end of south gate road with a right curve merge onto Box Elder road. Anyways, coming down a little too fast in my eclipse (about 35, on snow) I hit the brakes and started sliding. Thinking quickly, I yanked the handbrake and somehow made the car slide completely perpendicular to the lanes. After that, the car slid sideways down the south gate road. I eased on the throttle and was able to follow the right curve to recover the car on the road. It was dumb to do, but it was either that or slide right through the intersection and into the ditch on the other side of Box Elder road.