Assetto Corsa How to Drift Tutorial (PART 1) | Throttle & Steering TIPS

How to drift in Assetto Corsa with steering wheel in todays drift tutorial covering the fundamentals of drifting in a manual car with clutch. These tips and techniques can be applied to any game, like forza horizon 4 or CarX Drift racing, the theory also works for controller. I use a thrustmaster tsxw steering wheel with Sparco Wheel Rim, thrustmaster shifter and tss sparco mod handbrake. Setup on a next level racing rig with RTX 3090 gaming pc!

0:00 Throttle Tips
3:20 Steering Tips
8:05 Gearing Tips

My Steering Wheel Setting (Assetto Corsa)
Gain 100%
Filter 0%
Minimum force 0%
Kerb 0%
Road 50%
Slip 0%
ABS 0%
Enable FFB Post Processing
Gamma 100%

My Thrustmaster Control Panel settings
Rotation 900
Gain 100%
Constant 100%
Periodic 100%
Spring 100%
Damper 100%
Auto center - by the game

Assetto Corsa Mods -
Map - Assetto Corsa Drift!
SOL 2.0 by PeterBoese - Available on Racedepartment
Camera - Box Camera Mod - Available on Racedepartment

Steering Wheel Setup -
Thrustmaster TSXW Steering Wheel w/ Sparco Mod Rally Rim
Thrustmaster Sparco mod handbrake
Thrustmaster TH8A Shifter
Thrustmaster T3PA Pro Pedals
Next Level Racing GT-Track Cockpit

PC Specs -
24GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3090 (Zodiac Trinity) Graphics
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core Processor
ASUS® CROSSHAIR VIII HERO Motherboard
64GB Corsair VENGEANCE PRO DDR4 3200MHz Ram

Having fun pushing drifting games to the limit using a complete Thrustmaster and Next Level Racing sim drifting setup!

[hkgt]

this is brlliant, all i need now is assetto corsa
and a steering wheel
and a pc
and a house to put them all in

[joonchilla]

Throttle
Practice #1: smooth taps/squeeze on the throttle 0:56
Practice #2: maintain throttle during drift 1:53 -> less for transition, more to hold drift (try not to fully lift unless transition)
- maintain at least 20% throttle during drift 2:25
- throttle tap to manage power 2:43
- avoid flooring (up to 60% throttle is all you need) 2:57


Steering
- Steering relies on your throttle control
- We want to let the wheel to spin as freely as possible -> use the car's momentum instead
- We catch and help the car counter steer while this happens 4:20
- Tip: use 60% feedback first
- Time your counter steer. Holding the turn-in for even a split second longer will cause a spin 6:30
- Feel the cars weight shift on the wheel. Catch it, then let it freely spin to counter steer 7:06


Gearing
- Smashing in a lower gear kills the car and the length of the drift 8:30
- Always be in highest possible gear
- You want your car to sound in lower pitch 9:10
- Shift down once you feel the loss of power (+ car straightening up) 9:24
- Don't necessarily need to GAIN speed all the time. Hold your speed to match the track

[egjr]

This training will actually translate over to real drifting in an actual car. The transition technique is what i had most trouble with long left drifts to tight right hand transitions. Good stuff.

[milesbutretarded]

this video is so calming to me, i know its weird but like the car noises to how easily he controls the car and even the subtitles just create an atmosphere of calm, love this video.

[AKS-wnqz]

It's crazy how we forget the basic principles of drifting, once we learn we don't even think about it, everything syncs in perfectly heheheheh

[seths]

This is THE tutorial! It covers all of the errors that a beginner would most likely face, and how to beat them. It has easy to read captions and slo-mo when needed, overall 10/10 tutorial!

[CARFUSION]

This is the most detailed and best explained tutorial for drifting I've seen so far. Thanks

[lukasbjerre]

That part where you showed why we spin out was spot on, exactly what I was looking for, great video, thanks ❤️

[moritz]

Thank you soooo much for taking time for my request. I truly appreciate it !!!

[thezebiano]

This is honestly gold. Such a precious video I do not want to loose in between the millions of YouTube videos. Thank you for making it!

[spanc]

Duuuude. I did a one day drifting course (birthday present). And you explain it exactly like that pro! Showing me examples everytime I spun the car and went through why it happened etc. Your a great teacher man !

[mr_mustache]

for the people that use a g29 or g920 as I do. the FFB and self-aligning isn't that great with that wheel. So a lot of the time when you need to counter-steer. you have to give it a pull on your wheel to get your wheel to spin and align properly. otherwise, it's too slow and won't react properly and you'll spin.

[spykez]

Great tutorial! Loved how you broke it up into different sections and taught the throotle, steering etc. one by one. Makes it alot easier than alot of these other tutorials where they try to explain everything at once. Clean drifting, you make it looks so easy!

[garritwinans]

This is the best video out there hands down. Day 3, I've watched probably 4 hours and practiced another 8. This is what got me over the hill. I was just turning in too much and not letting the wheel/cars momentum take control.

[RadioactiveHax]

Subscribed. This is by far the best drifting tutorial out there. It actually explains why you do what you do in drifting. Instead of people just telling you "aT tHiS pOiNt yOu pReSs tHe hAnDbReAk" this guy explains to you how, why, where and when to do it.

I don't even have asetto corsa or a sim rig but this really helped a ton. I'm trying to drift in a game where it's almost impossible to drift (no clutch, no gearing, small steering angle, toy car weight)and I really learned some stuff here to try and look at drifting in a more systematic way instead of just thinking throw the car sideways and control it.

[LeavingMirror]

the intro felt like the car was talking to me through the revs lol

[nexalz]

"Apply same theory to the controller" Big Facts.

[OfficialMeep]

I have experience drifting in real life a bit, so I am not amazing but lets say decent and couple months ago I bought a sim steering wheel, idk why but its just feels much harder on sims for me, I figured out in some situations but still there is few more reasons why its feels hard, first one you actually helped in this video, is lowering force feedback, it just feels more natural now, but I have another problem, I have a wheel with paddle shifters, and its hard to switch gears, in the middle of the drift and they are locked to the wheel, so they spin with the wheel, any help on how could I resolve this issue? more like how do I get away with paddle shifters?

[kannonfps]

been looking for a good "tuto" on how to drift since i started playing a week ago, thank you a lot, even if it's a year old its still fresh and up to date the tips and tricks are just perfect, with a couple of minutes practicing each techniques i can already say that i handle my car more efficiently compared to before THNX

[asxe]

Oh hell yeah, i've been waiting for this 😍 thank you boss!! Much love