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vz-r_dave
2,051 posts
55 months
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RacerMDR said: ok i admit it - I just don't get it.
Seems like motorsport for the playstation chav generation!
I'm oooooooooooooooooot! No more chavy then the cheap racing series your involved in eh 
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RacerMDR
1,562 posts
47 months
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 - i'm happy to use someone elses car, time and money and have a go at drifting.....whats the worst that can happen? It is harder than it looks? I'll still have a right laugh! anyway - didn't mean to offend! I'm just old fashioned......and don't feel drifting is for me as a sport. less of the Chav series I race in.....! (although I don't race in it anymore) What sort of budget does a drifter (club level) need out of interest?
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dorikin2009
40 posts
11 months
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Hehe.
Excellent.
When Keiichi Tsuchiya stands up and claps a drift you know its good.
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mybrainhurts
56,432 posts
92 months
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G0ldfysh said: Not going to do his tyres a lot of good is it. And he'll get piles, sitting in that funny seat... I blame Jemery Clarkson for this...
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Bizzle
451 posts
38 months
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RacerMDR said: whats the worst that can happen? We will video it, post it in General Gassing and publicly ridicule you for being mr big bol***ks.  RacerMDR said: What sort of budget does a drifter (club level) need out of interest? When i did a full competition season in 2008 it cost me £1000 per round (with full factory tyre sponsorship)
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robman23
21 posts
22 months
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I find it hilarious how people are saying this is easy, giving it 3/10 etc, or that other motorsports are more skilled. Fact of the matter is that this is one amazing peice of driving and anybody who says otherwise is just a bit of a berk if you ask me. lol. I couldnt do it, even in a drift car and I really doubt any of the people commenting on this could do it either. Feel free to prove me wrong tho
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dorikin2009
40 posts
11 months
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robman23 said: I find it hilarious how people are saying this is easy, giving it 3/10 etc, or that other motorsports are more skilled. Fact of the matter is that this is one amazing peice of driving and anybody who says otherwise is just a bit of a berk if you ask me. lol. I couldnt do it, even in a drift car and I really doubt any of the people commenting on this could do it either. Feel free to prove me wrong tho Indeed. It was great to watch. I would love to give it a try but I am sure I would end up facing the wrong way or off the side of the track somewhere. There is a Hong Kong movie called 'Initial D' which is based on the japanese anime. In the film, the idiotic character says how easy drifting is and how he would do it. The scene of him wrecking his car comes to mind when people say how easy it is!
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Marf
11,319 posts
78 months
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dorikin2009 said: There is a Hong Kong movie called 'Initial D' which is based on the japanese anime. Awful awful film.
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dorikin2009
40 posts
11 months
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Marf said: dorikin2009 said: There is a Hong Kong movie called 'Initial D' which is based on the japanese anime. Awful awful film. can't disagree with that!
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hairykrishna
5,455 posts
40 months
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Bizzle said: RacerMDR said: whats the worst that can happen? We will video it, post it in General Gassing and publicly ridicule you for being mr big bol***ks. Brilliant. If I pretend to think it looks easy can I have a go?  What are the rules on driver aids in drift competitions? I always wondered if you could build a kind of modified AYC + EBD system set up to produce controllable lairy slides.
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T89 Callan
8,115 posts
30 months
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Always good to see people enjoying cars an motorsport. Great driving and fun to watch.
Why half of the comments from PH'ers on here are so fecking miserable is beyond me.
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PascalBuyens
969 posts
119 months
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bennyboysvuk said: I think it's far easier to drift to that degree in a car like that than in your average car sheerly because of the steering lock that it can manage. The front wheels were almost 90 degress to the car! That combined with the fast steering ratio (he barely turns the wheel to get to the 90 degrees), and the rear wheels that are set up to make it go sideways too... Still, I like it, even though, as has been said, I've seen rally drivers do this quite a few times...
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vz-r_dave
2,051 posts
55 months
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PascalBuyens said: bennyboysvuk said: I think it's far easier to drift to that degree in a car like that than in your average car sheerly because of the steering lock that it can manage. The front wheels were almost 90 degress to the car! That combined with the fast steering ratio (he barely turns the wheel to get to the 90 degrees), and the rear wheels that are set up to make it go sideways too... What is the point you are trying to make here?? That a car set up for a purpose makes it easier. FFS thats like saying its easier to drift in a RWD car because its RWD.
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Marf
11,319 posts
78 months
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He's trying to say its easy, totally missing the point that all cars in motorsport are setup to suit whatever discipline they are competing in.
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silly chap
157 posts
31 months
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Mc lovin said: I dont have sound on my work comp but are they shouting "BANZAIII!!!!" at the end? they were shouting 100 points or top score, best score etc. i think they liked his drift.
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cptsideways
7,252 posts
89 months
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I must admit that's not easy to get right! I've tried plenty of times After about 100 attempts over the last 4 years I've just about sussed this manouver at Silverstone coming down the straight into the complex backwards at 100-115mph ish  A photo a few seconds too late but I'm bang on the line  Though occasionally it all goes Pete Tong  All nice & shiny to start with  Then ends up like this   When this happens %20copy.jpg) Still, I've got plenty of gravel the garden now  And here's a vid from the last round http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/watchvideo/drifting...
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dorikin2009
40 posts
11 months
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Excellent dude.
And you are using a genuine driftwagon too! Nice one. And great pics!
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silly chap
157 posts
31 months
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I think its rather a nice sport purely and simply as it isn't as expensive as most other forms of motorsport if you do it very amateurishly.
A friend of mine here has a rusty, beaten up, mystery mileage AE86, stripped out, chassis bent (probably). Wonderful cars those old Toyota's.
He takes it to Suzuka twin circuit which is next to the real Suzuka circuit and very cheap, very small, narrow (not ideal) but very modern and mostly arrive and drive.
On the way he stops at a tyre shop and picks up a free set of used illegal tyres and destroys them.
Don't suppose he can be very competitive given all that but he's always smiling.
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silly chap
157 posts
31 months
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cptsideways said: I must admit that's not easy to get right! I've tried plenty of times After about 100 attempts over the last 4 years I've just about sussed this manouver at Silverstone coming down the straight into the complex backwards at 100-115mph ish A photo a few seconds too late but I'm bang on the line Though occasionally it all goes Pete Tong All nice & shiny to start with Then ends up like this When this happens Still, I've got plenty of gravel the garden now And here's a vid from the last round http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/watchvideo/drifting...brilliant
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dorikin2009
40 posts
11 months
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Most importantly.
Someone who has actually done it.
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