Don’t forget your training wheels!

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Aim for the centre of the ramp in a straight line using one side of the car.
2. Balance steering and acceleration. When the car lurches off the ramp, you’ll be riding on the edges of your tyres, just like a motorbike taking a corner.
3. Hold your position until it’s time to go horizontal again. Then turn into the direction of your underside.

Troublespots. Depending on the type of car you use you may well have trouble with your carbs. Experiment and see what works!

Taken from the book How to Drive a Tank, more stunt driving techniques can be found here.

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The Scandinavian Flick

While you can modify the previous hairpin handbrake turn to accommodate your edge of the seat needs, at speed it is easy to get wrong. Here’s a simpler technique.

Once again the aim is to unbalance the car so at speed drop down into third gear then quickly turn the wrong way into a corner to unbalance (that’s right, away from the corner you’re turning into) then immediately turn back the right way.

Now let the rear end slide out as far as your nerves can take and hit the throttle to power out of the slide. It takes a bit more to master this technique but it is well worth it. The initial shimmy where you turn against the direction of the corner feels totally counter-intuitive and, if you’re trying it on a mountain road with a precipice ahead for your first time, it’ll scare the hell out of you. Again it’s a perfect manoeuvre to practise in a wide-open space such as a disused airfield, industrial estate or race track.

Taken from the book How to Drive a Tank, more stunt driving techniques can be found here.

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Power slide in a circle

INSTRUCTIONS
You will be going in a wider circle and this requires more skill than the simple doughnut. To begin have your car rolling in second gear then turn into the direction of steer and hammer the throttle.

Now comes the tricky bit: you have to balance the power with the steering and constantly adjust. Too much power and you’ll spin out, too little and the car will straighten up and you’ll lose the power and the slide.

Please note: The space used in this video was quite small for demonstrating this and we lost the external shots as well due to low light. I’ll refilm on a bigger track sometime soon and throw in some high-speed powerslides round a corner too.

Taken from the book How to Drive a Tank, more stunt driving techniques can be found here.

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Don’t aim for pedestrians!

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Approach from about 50 metres out and keep the parking spot on your right. In first gear bring the car up to around 3500 revs. When you reach the empty spot between the two cars put your left hand on the steering wheel at nine o’clock and spin it round to six o’clock.

2. As soon as you begin to turn the wheel pull on the handbrake. Then correct any oversteer with the steering wheel.

3. You can also approach from the other direction. Just reverse your hands on the wheel, start at three o’clock and turn anti-clockwise. That’s it. Simple and effective.

However it is easy to overcook it so you may want to practise a little before trying this anywhere near real cars or pedestrians. To do this you’ll need four traffic cones. Lay them out just over a car length apart in your large empty area. Two on the outside edge representing the road side of the parked cars and two on the inside to mark out the area where pedestrians walk and manslaughter charges apply.

For hairpin bends we use the same principles. From whatever speed you’re doing drop down to second then first gear, turn into the corner, clutch down, apply the handbrake so that the rear wheels lock and the back end comes round. Once you’re pointing in the right direction it’s clutch up and back on the power.

Taken from the book How to Drive a Tank, more stunt driving techniques can be found here.

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Scare the crap out of back seat drivers!

Manual transmission
Step 1. Find your straight line through the rear window. Fix your eyes on a spot in the distance, this should keep you on course.

Step 2. Pop it into reverse and floor the throttle.

Step 3. At around 25-30mph take your foot off the accelerator. This doesn’t need to be a pretty or smooth manoeuvre but it does need to be quick as the idea is to unbalance the rear suspension.

Step 4. With your hand on the steering wheel at seven to nine o’clock throw the steering wheel away to the right. This now unbalances the front end and the car will automatically fly straight round. If it’s a good J-turn the rear wheels will stay virtually still as the front wheels spin around to the front.

Step 5. Look forward, clutch down and into first gear. Drive away.

How hard is that? For automatics the final step is even easier as you don’t use the clutch.

Step 5. (Automatic) Look forward, change from reverse into drive and away you go.

Taken from the book How to Drive a Tank, more stunt driving techniques can be found here.

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Make those tires squeal even harder!

1. Hit your turning mark.
2. Slam the steering wheel over in the direction of travel.
3. Hit the clutch and handbrake to break traction.
4. Release the clutch.
5. Balance power with steering and constantly adjust.

Taken from the book How to Drive a Tank, more stunt driving techniques can be found here.

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Here’s how to do a doughnut that’ll make your tires squeal in four easy steps.

1. Full lock in the direction you want to go.
2. Ease off a little (optional).
3. Give it loads of revs.
4. Dump the clutch and away you go.

Taken from the book How To Drive a Tank, see the chapter exert on the link for more car skills.

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