The Insanely Good Touge Nobody Is Driving…
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Why is nobody talking about the Detarame (Drazgose) Pass? It’s a 2022 Assetto Corsa touge mod that everybody seems to have forgotten about, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out why. Probably because it wasn't featured in Initial D, thinking about it...
It features almost hellishly bad roads, which is of course a good thing. It takes you through some lovely scenery, and multiple villages. It has a vibrant mix of very technical slow areas, and fast, scary ones too. And, it even has uphill and downhill in a single run. Chef’s kiss
This is a touge that I had actually discovered a couple of years ago, and I absolutely loved driving it. But it fell by the wayside and I had totally forgot about it. That was until I was sorting through my mods folder, and came across it once again.
I knew I had to load it up, and relive the thrill that Detarame will give any driver. From the very offset, you’re thrown into the mixer. YOu have to thread the needle through this extremely uneven road, and propel yourself into a narrow corridor, between buildings that tower over you. You then need to maintain maximum braking over the bumps, and hook left, narrowly passing past the people of Detarame’s properties, and if you collide with them, which is an extremely likely possibility, the run will almost certainly be over in it’s infancy.
The road only gets worse from here as you proceed onto the uphill slope. And I must stress, that is absolutely NOT bad thing. If you don’t counter steer enough, or don’t use almost perfect throttle control, you’re going to lose the back end over the very much imperfect asphalt, and that’s before you even take the corners into account.
These corners are so frigging uneven that it would throw even the most well balanced cars off balance. And, it’s very likely that you’ll be getting up on two wheels over most of them. Additionally, like old real life roads, the outer edges are actually depressed a little with a bump in the middle from all the use they’ve gotten. So, you best believe you have to pick a line and stick to it. If you deviate from the grooves gifted to you by mad lads that have sent it up this road before, you’re going to be rolling down the hill before you can say “oh shit”.
Ejecting yourself from these few turns is almost as difficult as taking them. You’d think because it’s uphill, you can just slam on the throttle and everything will be rosy. But, you guessed it, you can’t do that at all. If you use dollop even a slight amount too much of sauce on the exit, the rear end it going around.
After ambling up the hill, you’re greeted by this crest. After it? The first hairpin. You actually need to start braking on the crest in a lot of cars. But at that point, you’re tossed into the air. So, you best be used to the car you’re driving because it’s extremely easy to lock up and go head first into that guard rail.
Now if you’re a subscriber of mine, you’ll know my philosophy on hairpins is to kick the rear end out, step on the throttle and slide around them. When in doubt, go flat out some might say. Well, this isn’t just any old hairpin. It’s actually almost a tightening double apex, and the radius itself is quite large. Pair this with the still uneven road, and drifting isn’t such a great idea.
We can’t take the racing or ideal line either. As, if we swing it out wide and try a late apex, those grooves in the road I mentioned earlier will surely throw the car around. So, what I like to do is dip my inner tyres into the grass and hug the innards all the way around. Once again, if you get too confident on the throttle, the rear end is going to spin. And trust me, you don’t want to be sideways leading onto this next section.
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