GR Yaris Wet drift trackdays

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Hey,

As I do not care about lap times (I do simracing for this) and am afraid of the cost of trackday, be it consumable-wise or car wear - wise, I was wondering about doing wet drift days. I have the chance to have really good tarmac road close to my home where you can push a bit which help extinguishing my hunger for tarmac hooning.

During those wet trackday, they put a ton of water on the track and you are free to drift the car as much you want during 20 min session.

My GR is fully standard and I'd like to keep it like this.

If I want to take part in a wet day, what should I prepare ? Can I go with my OEM tyres which are at half-wear ? Do I need to modify something/Budget something except tyre wear and fuel ?

Is it really a lot easier on the car as I read on the web ?

I love to drift the car in the mud but my opportunities are quite limited and I can't really try crazy drift where I do it. The most I can do is short 1st / 2nd gear drift and you can't really train transition or anything ...
 
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Yohz78 said:
Hey,

As I do not care about lap times (I do simracing for this) and am afraid of the cost of trackday, be it consumable-wise or car wear - wise, I was wondering about doing wet drift days. I have the chance to have really good tarmac road close to my home where you can push a bit which help extinguishing my hunger for tarmac hooning.

During those wet trackday, they put a ton of water on the track and you are free to drift the car as much you want during 20 min session.

My GR is fully standard and I'd like to keep it like this.

If I want to take part in a wet day, what should I prepare ? Can I go with my OEM tyres which are at half-wear ? Do I need to modify something/Budget something except tyre wear and fuel ?

Is it really a lot easier on the car as I read on the web ?

I love to drift the car in the mud but my opportunities are quite limited and I can't really try crazy drift where I do it. The most I can do is short 1st / 2nd gear drift and you can't really train transition or anything ...
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wet days typically wear car very little so no spesific prep is needed, of course its good to have brakes in good condition and car serviced with full tank of fuel.
GR is fun to go out even on wet conditions. Same logic as on dry for driving, except avoid the dry driving line as it is slippier.
 
Michael Knight said:
wet days typically wear car very little so no spesific prep is needed, of course its good to have brakes in good condition and car serviced with full tank of fuel.
GR is fun to go out even on wet conditions. Same logic as on dry for driving, except avoid the dry driving line as it is slippier.
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Thanks for your answer !

I'm happy to hear that it is easier on the car.

Those are specifically "drift days", everyone is there to drift their car so I guess it's ok to take a slippery line ahah

The goal is to train bigger drift& transition as I can't do it on the road for obvious reasons ..!
 
The expert advice I received was to have bad quality winter tyres on.

Please feel free to share details of the place and how to join for a few sessions. Asking for a friend :-)
 
Not a bad idea, I definitely thought about having good rain tyre front and bad cheap chinese tyre rear, must be ton of fun xD

There is a calendar of trackdays :


Obviously it is in french. But when it is written "Journée glisse" it means drift day and that they are going to pour water onto the track. Price vary a lot depending on the track. Ecuyer for instance would be quite good as it has a lot of camber and elevation change and some tigth corner that you can chain.

Hopefully there is quite a lot of option so if your friend is french he might find one pretty close to his home. If it's for someone for UK, there's quite a few option which are located north of France like Clastres.
 
Yohz78 said:
Not a bad idea, I definitely thought about having good rain tyre front and bad cheap chinese tyre rear, must be ton of fun xD

There is a calendar of trackdays :


Obviously it is in french. But when it is written "Journée glisse" it means drift day and that they are going to pour water onto the track. Price vary a lot depending on the track. Ecuyer for instance would be quite good as it has a lot of camber and elevation change and some tigth corner that you can chain.

Hopefully there is quite a lot of option so if your friend is french he might find one pretty close to his home. If it's for someone for UK, there's quite a few option which are located north of France like Clastres.
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For this and any 4-wheel drive car, I would prefer same tyres front & rear.
 
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