Zipperke sufkop.
He said changing direction is allowed, but you do have to keep sliding. You actually can do this without interrupting your drift: countersteer during the drift and brake again when you are just about to regain grip, then keep the brake down until you drift in the other direction. This is a continuous drift because your rear wheels are locked up during the 0.01 seconds you are going straight. This is in fact what happens automatically offroad because your rear wheels never have any grip on sand.
Ville says:
I said that if it's possible to drive better without drifting (from my own experience, double-drifts like this can often be driven with only 1 drift and nosliding the rest), you might get a worse score in Theme-category. The author must still drive the track so that there are at least 3 drifts that last for at least 8 seconds each.
Many zigzag drifts can be partially noslid but it's not necessarily
faster if this puts you at an awkward angle for the next turn so you have to slam on the brakes or just crash.
On my submission I hedged my bets: the drift sections are 14, 9 and 11 seconds respectively so even if you do noslide the first or last corner you're still well within range.
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