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Well, first things first. you probably didn’t drift, you understeered to the outside. no amount of throttle will cure understeer, take my word for it.
in the situation you (mayhemsm) described it sounds like you went into a turn with big entry speed, once the car started to understeer to the outside your freaked and went for the brakes. although its not the worst possible mistake you could have made (which would have been go for the throttle) it wasn’t a very wise decision, as you have noted.
understeer is a sinch to correct, all you have to do is gradually lift off the throttle untill the front tires regain grip, just make sure you have enough runoff because you will most likely go wide of your exit line.
if you happen to experience oversteer while taking a turn its a whole different story. as soon as you feel the back end brake loose, and start to come around, you want to immediately turn INTO the skid. in other words, point the tires where you want to go.
a stock WRX is very hard to "drift", because it AWD and has gobs of traction. if you do manage to get your wrx lit, chances are giving it any throttle will just straighten it out. You can induce oversteer if you really want to, by starting like you did before. Go in with big entry speed, and instead of just turning in, you stab the brakes right before or as you turn in, to get a lot of weight on the front tires in an attempt to brake the rear tires loose when you go back to full throttle. You can also try a technique called a scandie flick, or Scandinavian flick, the idea is to disrupt the weight balance of the car by turning the opposite direction of the approaching turn before you actually turn in. so if it’s a right hander, you jerk the wheel left before you turn right.
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