Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Aside from that, here's what I'd think: it depends. The advantage to skidding a turn is that it allows you to begin accelerating in one direction while decelerating in the other direction. You're pointing your drive wheels in the new direction (so a skid would look different in FWD vs RWD), and accelerating that way, while using your skid to slow you down in the old direction.

The disadvantage to the skid turn is that you don't have much control over the speed of the deceleration. For a wide, sweeping turn, you'd lose too much energy to the skid. You'd be accelerating on an angle that's less than 90 degrees from your current trajectory, so you'd be making the engine work against the skid.

Therefore, I'd guess that the skidding turn is only good for sharp turns of over 90 degrees. You could probably plot the minimum curvature at which a skidded turn makes sense using a parametric plot of the deceleration y''(t) and acceleration x''(t), given some initial speed y'(0). (For turns of >90 degrees, your acceleration would be broken into components, one of which would contribute to y''(t).) Could make a fun little js program to put on a web page.

Matt
'99 9³

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