Is The Ford Focus RS Faster On A Rally Course In Drift Mode, Or Track Mode?

Drift Mode in the Ford Focus RS is not supposed to make you faster. Nope, as the name implies it’s all about helping you throw drifty shapes by sending more power to the rear, softening up the suspension and making the steering a little lighter. Hopefully not resulting in you crashing on a public road. But what about on a dirt track - could Drift Mode actually make you faster?

Effective and fast rally driving requires a certain degree of movement from the rear axle, so you’d think slapping a lightly rally-prepped Focus RS in Drift Mode might actually make it faster. To see if that theory stacks up in the real world, the fine folk over at Jalopnik stuck Wyatt Knox of the Team O’Neil Rally School behind the wheel, and whipped out the stop watch.

Place your bets in the comments, watch the video, and see how right or wrong you were…