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The Scandinavian flick, Finnish flick, Manji drifting, or pendulum turn is a technique used in rallying. While approaching the turn, the driver applies a slight steering input to the opposite direction of the turn, then steering into the turn, while sharply lifting off the throttle and (in some cases, depending on speed and type of layout) lightly applying the brakes. This will cause the car to slide sideways facing slightly away from the turn. Then steering input is applied towards the turn and as the driver releases the brake pedal while still holding down the throttle the car will slingshot itself around the corner to the desired direction. Of course, countersteering will again be required to control the induced oversteer. A recent research paper initiates a mathematical analysis of this technique.〔(Efstathios Velenis, Panagiotis Tsiotras and Jianbo Lu, "Modeling Aggressive Maneuvers on Loose Surfaces: The Cases of Trail-Braking and Pendulum-Turn," European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, July 2-5, 2007 )〕 This technique is used to help the driver get around corners that have an increasing radius, but it is also used as a show off as the result of the flick involves the car oversteering heavily. ==Origin of the name== Though it is not clear who the first person to invent it was, the technique was named after the Scandinavian rally drivers of the 1960s who widely used it. The front wheel driven cars of the '60s, such as the Mini and the extremely popular Saab 96 in Scandinavia, were easier to turn with if the brake pedal was stabbed to induce weight transfer from rear to front and rear grip reduced until it started to slide. The "flick" part comes from the technique of "flicking" the wheel in a direction opposite of the turn to build up angular momentum. The Scandinavian rally drivers were, and still are, predominantly the best drivers in Europe for driving in ice and snow conditions, due to their inclement weather in winter months. Because they drove on ice and snow regularly, they were the first drivers to develop techniques to drive at speed in these slippery conditions. The Scandinavian flick was first used by drivers such as Ari Vatanen and Rauno Aaltonen in WRC events on non-cold weather surfaces, and as such, the name has stuck. Since the concept was understood and developed, it has also found its way into drifting and tarmac driving events. It has even gone as far as Australia, where it has been used to induce oversteer in V8 Supercars. The Japanese name of this technique, ''Manji drift'', is named after a Japanese meaning of swastika for the likeness of drift lines. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scandinavian flick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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