Originally Posted by
Paul_RS
How do they score the cars in the drifting competitions? I've always wondered how it works?
Originally Posted by
Ginge
As far as i know they give points for three different areas of the drift, Speed, Line and Angle...
Not really, well, sort of.
In qualifying, which is solo runs, in the breifing the judges will tell the competitors what they are looking for, but this is mostly what clipping points they want the cars to hit, ie need the front of the car to be as close to the inside of whatever part as possible. There will normally be 3 or so of them in the course.
Thats the most important part, aside from not ever straightening out, or understeering, which will totally destroy your scores.
Aside from that its about how fast you are going compared to the rest, how early before the first corner you initiate the drift.
Of course smoke and angle is part of it too, though in a way thats a much lesser thing as if you doing the other things well that just happens anyhow.
This is scored out of 100.
The top 16 (usually, ive seen top 32s before) go in to the twin drift battles, which are scored totally different, basically its a 1on1 race, but sideways, so things usually speed up.
Its 3 runs, a practice run, 1 run when the opposing car is leading, another run when you are leading. The object really is if you're in front to pull away from the chase car, the following car should try to keep as close or even overtake the lead car. All while drifting of course.
Its scored out of 10, ie 5-5, 8-2, 10-0, etc.
If you spin out or crash, 10-0 to the other person.
If you are just generally shit, straighten out, or understeer, the other person will win by a fair amount.
If the other car either massivley pulls away from you or overtakes you, its usually 8-2 or even 9-1.
If you are in front and are clearly holding up the other car, he will have the advantage, etc etc.
Clipping points are ignored for this, the cars just take whatever lines they want to win.
Smoke, angle, and how early the drift was initiated before the first corner is taken in to account, but not as much, so if it was too close to call in other ways, but one car had much better of these, theyd get the advantage.
Very hard to explain, but after watching it a while you get used to it easy, I cant explain it but I can predict pretty accuratly exactly what scores the judges will give every time.