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Gravity Fed
so the ultimate is then a snow rally? Big White anyone?
Yep. Low traction conditions also have the benefit of you TYPICALLY going "slower" so less damage. Everyone should start in snow so that their minds are blown by how much traction gravel has after learning to manage every little bit of traction they can in the slippery stuff.
All of my skillz are self taught. I started racing when I was 16 (auto-x, rally-x) and have been LFB'ing since then. I also drove small worthless shitbox momentum cars that required you to not cock up your lines too bad or you were screwed. I took a rally school when I was 17/18, the aforementioned "in a big gravel lot" kind. It "helped", but it wasn't really anything I couldn't already do.
I also hooned, a LOT. TSD rallies were good excuses to toss the car sideways on gravel roads. When I got my first Subaru (and then three more after that), winter became an awesome funfest of dorifting around parking lots, even in the big city downtown during party hour on the weekends when the roads hadn't been cleared of snow was game on. The GMC 1500 cargo van I drove for the City of Red Deer for almost 3 years? Massively sideways constantly in the winter (or mud). I looped it out a few times at 60km/h in front of construction workers shaking their heads, but man, when you nail that 90* left perfectly with the ass end of a 4000 pound brick hanging out, life is good.
Beyond all of this, I raced R/C cars since I was 12 (T-Maxx's when they first came out, then onto 1/8 nitro buggies). Really helped me get a feel for the way cars handle. Same with video games (racing video game fanatic). Thousands of hours playing GT1/GT2/Colin McRae 1 thru 4/Super OffRoad, etc. For the burgeoning rallyist who is looking to up their game, Richard Burn's Rally is the ticket. When going balls out, it feels ridiculously realistic, it gets unrealistic when you back off (weird eh?)
