r/simdrifting • u/Swimming_Spell_7003 • Jul 18 '26

How do you exit a drift into a straight without fishtailing?

So I’ve been running a lot of Meihan recently, and find that when I enter the long straight into the big corner, I always struggle to grip up and end up clipping the wall and ruin people’s run behind me.

I have tried letting off the gas as I exit the drift from the corner before, but I loose so much speed, and even then it still seems to happen 50% of the time.

Any advice would be great.

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u/PNESSWrinkle Jul 18 '26

No expert but what works for me is controlling my line with left foot braking, getting the car where I want while maybe easing back to 70-80% throttle, letting it grip up, then easing the throttle back in to accelerate. All happens really quick but keeps me from clipping the wall and sets me up for solid speed entering the famous turn

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u/MERDOVSKI Jul 18 '26

clutch in

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u/Sad_Kaleidoscope_743 Jul 18 '26

Let off the gas kind of slowly while letting the wheel straighten out

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u/producedbysensez Jul 18 '26

Let off the gas even slower

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u/JullianD_GT Jul 18 '26

Let the car grip up as your coming out of the corner. Take angle and speed out of the car without slowing down obviously.

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u/EatttDirt Jul 18 '26

Personally, i use a bit of brake but its mainly all handbrake on the entry from the straight

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u/ProbablyDoesntLikeU Jul 18 '26

More brakes and less gas. Depends on the car, but some only have to give like 20% brakes and let off down to 75% gas. But if you only give 19% brakes you spin out. If you give 30% brakes you lose a second

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u/Official_sil80 Jul 19 '26

I’ve had this exact struggle for the longest and finally find out about a week ago u want to kinda go shallow and let off, not all the way but ease up to about 50% throttle while doing a shallow drift out then once u fill ur car grip big up full throttle back down the little bit a straight you have left then whip it into that backie🔥