a guide to all conditions would be a mystical thing
baisicly conditions will dictate your settings so its kinda hard to say exactly what works well and where, if you look through my exifs you will very rarely find two pics with identical settings (mainly cause of my stupidly short attention span i will tend to move around alot when taking pics so i dont realy have a set plan) the only ones that stay uniform are realy iso settings i keep them as low as i can get away with, the rest is dictated by what the shot needs to make it work.
what i find usefull in drift is the 3 qualifing runs,
run 1: keep it nice and safe so at least if everything else goes tits up you still have a shot, so 1/80- 1/100 ish again this depends on conditions scottland the "safe shots were 1/125- 1/160
run 2: take what you dont like about your first shot and do somthing about it so composition, shutter, apeture, all buggered around with to get it where you want.
run 3: if youve got it then get funkey, drop the shutter to the floor and see what comes out, anything is possible even if its a lucky shot you've still got it and thats what counts (belive me i love the lucky shot i have loads
) 6th of a second bring it on woo hoo
it all comes with experence just picking up a camera and knowing what to do instantly doesnt happen this is the diffence between pro and hobbyist looking at a situation and knowing roughly where to start im not a pro and it takes me at least an hour to start getting stuff im happy with. a good thing to do ( atleast for me) is pick up a car mag EVO is good for this and look at the pics and try to work out what the photographer has done and learn from it