Two comments:
1. It is very hard for persons like the WRC to use drugs. I guess you already have read
Appendix A to International Code of International Sporting Code. We have already spoken about the
WADA List of substances...
This standards
were adopted in 2003 by most of major sports organizations... but not by FIA which, FYI,
adopted them in its entirety in December 2010 (one month ago).
Nonetheless, since 2006 the Appendix A was almost identical to the International Standards. Those of you that have followed previous discussions on this issue or that read the Codes every year could have noticed the changes, something we had mentioned a couple of years ago.
Right now there is campaign to make more strict the testing at
junior karting events, so it defies imagination to atribute WRC the possibility of being so stupid as to risk his career, knowing in advance that he is going to be tested for substances at the end of each race he wins.
2. The techniques for rally driving are well known. I guess it was Tazio Nuvolari the man who could be credited with inventing the slide, when Enzo Ferrari was not only alive but also young.
What Loebs knows what we don't know is how to win the WRC.
You don't get that through techniques, but by devoting your entire life to this goal. There is no trick, is your soul what you have to put on the balance.
I quote again the technique, as described by Mr. Ferrari (it must be the third time I do it in this forum, sorry you guys).
"At the first bend, I had the clear sensation that Tazio had taken it badly and that we would end up in the ditch; I felt myself stiffen as I waited for the crunch. Instead, we found ourselves on the next straight with the car in a perfect position. I looked at him, his rugged face was calm, just as it always was, and certainly not the face of someone who had just escaped a hair-raising spin. I had the same sensation at the second bend. By the fourth or fifth bend I began to understand; in the meantime, I had noticed that through the entire bend Tazio did not lift his foot from the accelerator, and that, in fact, it was flat on the floor. As bend followed bend, I discovered his secret.
Nuvolari entered the bend somewhat earlier than my driver's instinct would have told me to. But he went into the bend in an unusual way: with one movement he aimed the nose of the car at the inside edge, just where the curve itself started. His foot was flat down, and he had obviously changed down to the right gear before going through this fearsome rigmarole. In this way he put the car into a four-wheel drift, making the most of the thrust of the centrifugal force and keeping it on the road with the traction of the driving wheels. Throughout the bend the car shaved the inside edge, and
when the bend turned into the straight the car was in the normal position for accelerating down it, with no need for any corrections."
-- Enzo Ferrari --
Notice that this (for me) is not the same as drifting, where you throw your ass (sorry) more than what is needed in a regular racing car and you have to countersteer. You use drifting ONLY when you have an ultralight
overpowered car, like most motorcycle racers tend to do (if there is a racing machine that has more power than what it needs is a racing bike). If you want to learn about drifting, well, then look for Kunimitsu Takahashi in Youtube.
