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.
If you’re interested in receiving a free Kindle/ebook edition (for a limited time only), just drop me a line either in the comments below or via the contact page.
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.
If you’re interested in receiving a free Kindle/ebook edition (for a limited time only), just drop me a line either in the comments below or via the contact page.
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