Driving

Driving
Driving in NFSU2 is quite interesting, since there's so many courses to master.

It's easy to step on the gas on the highway, that's cake! But what you really need to worry about are corners.

Wether it's smooth corners, steep corners, sharp corners, slopes or wide corners. You must know how to handle them. You have to know at what speed you can enter the corner, how much do you need to hand brake and when to start accelerating again.

The point where you throw yourself into a drift, is the moment you need to figure out when to accelerate. Since accelerating too early may end up with oversteer and makes you spin out of control, and accelerating too late makes a huge impact on your momentum which lowers your speed.

What you need to do is to find a balance between weightshifting and grip. On a FR car its better to have a greater brake bias for the rear than for the front, it gives you extra stability while drifting through a corner. And then when you're feeling confident for a certain setup, it's time to get used to the course and learn timing for your techniques.

A light car, such as (Mazda miata Mx-5, Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic). Would be better suited with stiffer and lower suspension, so that the car won't bounce around so much. The swaybars should also be alot harder, in purpose of preventing dramatic countersteering.

A heavy car like (Audi A3, Toyota Supra, Lexus or Subaru) however...Could use higher and more loose suspension with soft swaybars, that way the car can use weightshifting, and simply using its weight to gently "roll its body" into a drift in corners. Then accelerating right after, using weightshifting drift can HOWEVER result in more countersteering if you are not used to the technique, once you've mastered the weightshifting, you'll become the god of street racing. And it looks alot more awesome and difficult using weightshifting techniques.