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Old Aug 15, 2009 | 01:58 AM
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Not sure what forum to post this on, but I figured the dragsters would probably have insight...i saw a video of a guy doing a trick move in his vette. basically, from a roll burns a 180 then somehow using the momentum of the car, in the same rotational vector, swings the front end around to complete the 360. anybody know how to do this? i get the standard doughnut, where the front end is the center of the circle and the back end rotates around 360, but this was like at the 180 point he switched so that the back end of the car became the center point and the front end rotated around. i have a worn set of supercars and a big parking lot that the owners don't mind me leaving tire marks...
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Old Aug 15, 2009 | 01:27 PM
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I am really having a hard time visualizing what you're saying but just a wild guess is that he's using the emergency brake to lock the rear wheels then at the same time going the opposite direction with the steering.
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Old Aug 15, 2009 | 05:14 PM
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Ahhhh, emergency brake. makes sense. i just cant visualize where the force comes from to move the front of the car around. i wish i could remember the youtube title, but i can't. it was a completely insane clip of this guy pulling onto a busy road from an on ramp and hitting the move in oncoming traffic. it was amazingly fluid, like the guy was a movie stunt driver or something. thx for the reply!
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It just takes practice.

I went to a stuntman school with a buddy of mine and the stuff they taught was stuff we had been doing for years, except this time it was under more controlled(and legal) conditions.
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