Why do I need a Rear Wheel Drive car for Drifting?

We have run into this discussion many times since we opened our store with an RC Drift track. Even more now that we have a very cool RC Drift Track! Example discussion: Customer: "I just bought a "Drift" car, are you open? Can I come and drive my car?" Ignite: "Cool, what car do you have?" Customer: "I purchased this weapon of a car from XXXXXX and they said this is the best drift car you can get. It's an AWD XXXXXXX" Ignite: "Sorry, we only allow RWD (Rear wheel drive) drift cars on our track".... this then continues on explaining why, which I will cover below. Customer: "So what do I do..." Ignite: "Come in and we can help you" Why RWD only? - The RWD chassis that have been designed for drifting, actually drift. The AWD chassis that are marketed to drift, actually powerslide and are still fun on the street or in a carpark, but are way to powerfull to control on our drift tracks. - All RWD chassis require a few not-so secret ingredients that make it possible to drift: 1. Extreme Steering Angle 2. Gyo to create counter steer 3. Suspension setup. Camber, spring rates, ackerman, toe, etc... These are specific to Drift cars. A on-road/touring car setup will struggle to drift. - Even though the RWD drift cars are extremely powerful, they must be run with the right compound Drift Tyre. These are a plastic compound design for different surfaces. for the IGNITE RC Drift tracks, this tyre would be the DS Racing LF3 Comp tyre for P-TILE track. - There are other considerations with regards to electronics as well. But we can explain this to you if you are keen to take the next step of getting a proper RC Drift car. We are going to be direct and honest about the cars and brands we are about to name. Some of which we sell (but not as drift cars) These are the cars the you should actually avoid if you want to drift on our Drift Tracks. There are some that are able to be converted to work. We will point these out. - Team Magic ED4 "Drift" - NO GO - AWD, not able to be converted - HPI E10 "Drift" - NO GO - AWD, not able to be converted - Kyosho Fazers - NO GO - AWD Road car, not able to be converted - Tamiya - TT01, TT02, M06, BT01 - These are all able to be converted or run in RWD mode and we have conversion kits available to turn them into Drift cars. Also be aware of cheap copies of popular RC Drift chassis. Example: Clone (FAKE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL) 3Racing Sakura D5. These clones can be extremely difficult to tune and most parts don't fit quite right. They will turn you away from the hobby.