Thread by @SirishChandran

When it comes to #drifting control is everything. And when it comes to control, the tyres are everything

For setting India’s longest #drift record @VredesteinIndia hooked us up with 3 sets of ultra-high-performance Ultrac Vorti tyres. For an automotive journalist this is mana from heaven — “Here’s 15 #Vredestein tyres for you, Sirish. Go nuts with them” 😎

The Ultrac Vorti tyres are designed in Europe, styled by Giuguario no less & are now #MadeInIndia tuned for our conditions (not that it matters for #drifting but it immediately made a big difference to ride comfort)

#Vredestein also provided us access to its permanent facility at the NATRAX — a full-blown R&D centre with some of the top engineers and testers in the business.

On slippery surfaces tyres also delivered grip we needed (without grip we will just slide out of the circle & into the ditch, plus we need grip so the car can put down power and rotate the back end) allowing me to know precisely how much throttle to use to keep the slide going

And we did the entire record on one set of tyres. Through the enormous stresses drifting puts on tyres they lasted for the full 10 minutes and 23 seconds. I gave up before the tyres did!

We’ve just gone live with the extended cut of the drift record 👇


here we detail the practice runs, the fails & frustrations, how we eventually pieces it together, everything in fact that you guys asked us after the (shorter) first video

Still can’t believe I had 3 sets of tyres and two days to drift the life out of them all. Somebody pinch me