I started drifting for the first sime a few weeks back and I am totally hooked. Now my tunes I would say are reasonable but I struggle to keep a angle and my drifting is a bit all over the show. Any advice as how to get more consistent?
Try playing around with your differential settings and camber settings. Maybe brakes. Also try changing tire width and compound. If your drifting on slicks for example your car will grip up a hell of alot quicker than if your on streets or sports.
Also if all this fails try finding the sweet spot in the gears. If your car is banging of the rev limiter you’ll eventually grip up. Idk if this is useful.
Tuning can be hard for a vehicle, especially in the drift section. I have no idea how your cars are tuned, but most of the problems come from the vehicle not being balanced. I do have a calculator that will calculate the car to be balanced in the Tuner’s Garage that will help out. The reason to do this is when your car turns, it shifts it’s weight. If you do not have it balanced, it will be hard to keep your car from turning in to much, or just completely spinning out at the slightest shift of anything. Think of elevation, a bump, change in direction, ect.
As the poster said above, tires can make a huge difference as well. If your tires grip too much, you will not slide and the tires will just give traction and it will either not turn enough, or just take all of your power away in the RPM area. If you are getting too much tire spin, monitor the PSI in the tires after a drift. Basically turn the Anna crap off and instead have the telemetry come up and you can monitor all of this. Some of my cars have the rear pressure down to 25 to keep the tires @ 32 PSI under full drifting.
Also, your differentials can actually change how you drift, either locking too quickly or not quickly enough which can change the drift going from turn to turn. I would suggest finding a tuner friendly person to show you a tune on a car, have them walk you through on what is being done, and why, and have them show you how to drift the same set up and car with you on a particular drift area, and no, it does not have to be a drift zone.
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Use less throttle! Entering the corner with a lot of angle, at a slightly higher speed than you feel comfortable with,. Let the wheels naturally “roll” into traction before you start spinning your wheels again. It gives you, IMO a higher average speed through a corner and a drift with less countersteering.
Use manual with clutch. That way you have total control over the power output. Clutching to increase angle is better than handbrake, for obvious reasons; Clutch kick makes the car move forward= higher speed, handbrake can slow you down too .much before you reach optimal angle.
Know your car, and how low you can go in RPM before you need to downshift. And try to keep the RPM between that and rev. limiter, so that you have some top-room to increase speed and RPM without shifting gears during a drift.
Less is more, less throttle and less countersteering gives you more control. No matter how tempting it is to give full throttle in the heat of the moment.
Clipping points. Finding the perfect line through a corner, helps you keeping your speed up. Cause for me, I loose momentum when drifting on less familiar tracks, and It becomes a start-stop rhytmn through the race.
This is just what I had trouble with, and picked up over the years. If it makes sense. I got some top 10 leaderboards, so I believe that some of this can be helpful.
Good luck 
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