Chris Rado bashed the drifting scene!!!!

[Nissan-S14]

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Hello everyone, just wanted to shard some info. I was on the train this morning, and I was reading the July Sport Compact Car magazine which was filled with Hondas this month. So i stumbled upon Crhis Rados artice, (for those of you, who dont know who he is, he is the world record holder of the NHRA and his stupid celica) Before this article I had much respect for him. But now... its down the drain. What he basically said was, the dirfting scene is not all that bad *** and all their styles is not telented its all about technique. And how how all the Japenese drift cars look gheto and not good looking cars and dont have that much in them to begin with. When someone took him for a ride ( he even bashed the driver, he thaught his name was someone else) and he didnt know the driver, and he did not get wowed at all. He said his ride was ok). Then he went on saying how the drivers of D1 do not care about audience and do not care about people, theyre just out there for themselves (can you believe this moron) And he said how its their fault and they dont speak english. Then he went on how his team is going to join the drifting scene, with his Toyota Tocoma (what a dumb a$$ car for drifting), thats going to have a nice paint job and style and graphics with no chips or dents on his car. (He obveously doesnt pay attention to the crashes) (or his thinking his god and his not going get into an accident with a wall with his raggidy A$$ truck) and they are going care about audience and people. And he is going to be the best drifter in the world). And how theyre team is going to represent the whole scene the way it should be done.

I cant believe I just read that coming from him.

[[Zero-S]]

Umm...bfd? Who cares what he thinks.

[DriftFactory]

I'd like to see him carry a drift team. If the scene is so bad why jump on the bandwagon Chris?

[spec-u-later]

That's fine let him bash it. Then maby all the kids won't want to get into it and I can get another 240 at a normal price.

[marshun]

he's weak anyway. hehe. i dont care if he's good at fwd dragging with someone else's design and setup for the car.

[Ceptos]

sounds like jealousy =) cant wait to see him push his car into a k-rail.

[BuudWeizErr]

meh...

if you actually drift and enjoy it as a sport and not as something to kill time while the bandwagon is in full swing, it doesn't matter what someone who drag races a wrong wheel drive car says about your sport.

drifting is fun, drift to drift, not what a bunch of other people think about it.

[AZhitman]

^ Wise words from Senor Chunk.

p.s. I know I used to bash the scene as well. But I have to admit, even drifting makes more sense than FWD drags.

[POS_S13]

But I have to admit, even drifting makes more sense than FWD drags.

well said mayn...

let the guy drift, he thinks he can show some D1 guys stuff that they don't know. we'll see where his talk will get him when he's on the track

[AZhitman]

I just have to laugh when I see those big fat Mickey Thompson wrinklewalls on the front, sticking out a foot on each side, and a damned set of WHEELIE BARS on the back....

I respect the effort, but it just seems misguided.

Besides, the domestics are holding their own on the drift circuits... Vipers, old El Caminos, Camaros... LOL - Look out!

[Ghettokracker71]

El camino would be a great drift car...lol ! No fuggin' weight over the back tires and V8 torque ! w00t ! Just think,if you dropped a 400 or so HP SBC with a posi(yes a positraction,its actually a chevy term) and an Munsi M32 transmission ? Hell I'd take the "bed" off too,lol.

[PalmerWMD]

Nico's Opinion is more important than his.

We are bigger than Chris Rado.Much bigger.

Fred..:tank:

[Chingon]

hmm...I hear a lot of morons bash drifting...I don't see why this guy's opinion is more important than others...

[gabossie]

Because he's in a MAGAZINE..ooOOOOOoooo:bshake

[C-Kwik]

He's probably just trying to convince people not to follow drifting. It's stealing some of the attention and eventually will take a toll on his sponsorship money...

[SmithSR]

Gotta follow the money...

[Ghettokracker71]

He's probably just trying to convince people not to follow drifting. It's stealing some of the attention and eventually will take a toll on his sponsorship money...

Good thinking,that would definitely make sence...thats still pretty ****ty though

[Nissan-S14]

Maybe, but id his trying to convience people about to stop following drifting, then why he is getting in there him self. My opinion is that, people just started to follow drifting much more the drag racing and that took away his fame and fortune. So now his pissed off at drifting, but since thats where the money is now, that is where he is following. In any case his a moron, I actually met him a few times and I thaught he was a nice guy. But not after this article.

[marleyskater420]

If you go to drifting.com there is a HUGE post about this, and rado actually joins the forum to dispute it all. He tried to make it seem all ok, and justify what he said, the post is like 10 pages long tho!!!! http://www.drifting.com/forums...+rado

just go there, it has 222 replies, alex pfeifer is really active in this forum along with other american D drivers.

Yea,I go to that forum often. Basically what I got from it after skimming it a few weeks ago was that Chris said something, got his foot in his mouth, and then tried to play "pity me im just and innocent guy, I did nothing wrong" type stance and play it off like he didnt mean to say those things. He knew darn well what he was saying when he wrote his article, and the drifting fans shoved it right up his butthole.

Chris Rado's dad should have pulled out.

Meh, basically the dudes pathetic, anything more would be giving him too much credit.

I suck at drifting, hell, I got a friggin Jeep, but see at least I respect the D1 drifters and acknolwedge their acomplishments. Has Chris ever even seen a japanese drift comp? I mean Him and I have the exact same in common, we've never drifted before, the only diference between us is I have maturity and can acknowledge when I can't do something, he just makes fun of it and calls it stupid.

5$ says either his parents hated him as a child, or he had no friends.

Oh yea, dont piss me off, Ive been grounded for the past month stuck in my room and Im one ticked off kid. Plus I have a tendency to speak whats on my mind.

hahah oh man, I had fun with that.

[BomexS13]

i read the whole thing,....very entertaining:thumbup

[kidzero81]

Geez, for people with kids, this is a good story to make your kid fall asleep. I fell asleep in the 7th page. All in all, HOLY CRAP.

[kim]

shoudn't matter, this is his opinion, if you want to control other people's opinion then that something called being a communist! We post pictures of our car knowing we might bet bashed on for having certain things or mods on our cars but we still do it because we like it. If you know its good then do it! my 2 cent.

[BuudWeizErr]

Even if Chris Rado did start drifting, I'd say the chances are he'd be very boring to watch. People who start drifting with little or no driving experience beforehand I think are more exciting to watch. They go into it with no real regard for the safety of their car. They've crashed before, and they don't care about crashing again, then throw their cars straight at the wall and use their skills to get out of it. Whereas people who have done real circuit racing and such before do everything they can to avoid crashing and oversteer. Watch Rhys Millen drive and it's like *yawn* boooooring, same with Taniguchi. They are both awesome drivers and both have incredible amounts of skills, but they just don't have the flare or insane style of some of the better (but less known) drifters. Think Hariguchi, that guy is nuts, Miki, Suenaga, the guy who drives the pink FD (forgot his name). You've really gotta have a couple of nuts loose upstairs to be an awesome drifter.

[Nissan-S14]

Even if Chris Rado did start drifting, I'd say the chances are he'd be very boring to watch. People who start drifting with little or no driving experience beforehand I think are more exciting to watch. They go into it with no real regard for the safety of their car. They've crashed before, and they don't care about crashing again, then throw their cars straight at the wall and use their skills to get out of it. Whereas people who have done real circuit racing and such before do everything they can to avoid crashing and oversteer. Watch Rhys Millen drive and it's like *yawn* boooooring, same with Taniguchi. They are both awesome drivers and both have incredible amounts of skills, but they just don't have the flare or insane style of some of the better (but less known) drifters. Think Hariguchi, that guy is nuts, Miki, Suenaga, the guy who drives the pink FD (forgot his name). You've really gotta have a couple of nuts loose upstairs to be an awesome drifter.

Well according to chris his been drifting even before drifting ever came out, he stated his being doing that since he was kid, doing donuts in parking lots. LOL

And signal twins are pretty insane as well.

[Ajax]

I've always found that Cris Rado is a self-righteous, whiny, blow-hard. Makes excuses for when he isn't breaking a record. And makes excuses for when things don't go his way. Granted, he has accomplished quite a bit, but buck it up for crying out loud.bed-wetter, guaranteed...

[HondaCRX]

...shard ....Crhis ... artice... dirfting...telented...Japenese ...thaught ...Tocoma ...obveously

(can you believe this moron)

Honestly, i can't...but, to the REAL content...

Quote » July Sport Compact Car magazine which was filled with Hondas this month.[/quote]Problem number 1.

Quote » Crhis Rados artice...his stupid celica[/quote]Why is it stupid? Seems pretty professional and well driven in my eyes.

Quote »Then he went on how his team is going to join the drifting scene, with his Toyota Tocoma (what a dumb a$$ car for drifting)[/quote]Wow, a drifter bashing someone bashing drifting for wanting to drift. Ironic.

I just have to laugh when I see those big fat Mickey Thompson wrinklewalls on the front, sticking out a foot on each side, and a damned set of WHEELIE BARS on the back....

except that he was racing a RWD car before Drifting stepped foot on US soil.

you know, it was the World Electronics Supra? At one point, he was the person everyone was gunning for. From what I understand, he went to FWD because of the popularity and class organization.

Is Chris Rado right for what he said? Who knows, the thread author didn't even post the article... he paraphrased what HE felt was important, I'm sure he omitted A LOT of details...even the linked thread posted only snippets. If anyone has a COMPLETE article, post it. I don't care to waste my money on SCC (which use is limited to wiping one's arsecrack).

Amazing... Is anyone in here over 18 and been in the motorsports scene longer than 3 years?

[DriftFactory]

I have been in the scene for over 13 years and this was the biggest joke I have ever seen. Chris Rado is bandwagon. Your right he did race rwd...... until he figured he could be more popular on the fwd bandwagon of the time. He also claims that he is not bandwagon because he started building his "drift,lol" truck in NOVEMBER! I have the entire article and the tone is the same throughout.

[Nissan-S14]

Honestly, i can't...but, to the REAL content...

Problem number 1.

Why is it stupid? Seems pretty professional and well driven in my eyes.

Wow, a drifter bashing someone bashing drifting for wanting to drift. Ironic.

except that he was racing a RWD car before Drifting stepped foot on US soil.

you know, it was the World Electronics Supra? At one point, he was the person everyone was gunning for. From what I understand, he went to FWD because of the popularity and class organization.

Is Chris Rado right for what he said? Who knows, the thread author didn't even post the article... he paraphrased what HE felt was important, I'm sure he omitted A LOT of details...even the linked thread posted only snippets. If anyone has a COMPLETE article, post it. I don't care to waste my money on SCC (which use is limited to wiping one's arsecrack).

Amazing... Is anyone in here over 18 and been in the motorsports scene longer than 3 years?

Im 24 and I have been in the scene since 16, so that makes it hmmm 8 years. First of all I dont have the time to spell check, I go on this forum at work, I just dont have the spare time, I wrote as fast as I can. You on the other hand own a CRX, so you obveoulsy dont see a problem with SCC having Hondas all over, but after premedia covering hondas for past 5 years cover to cover and only recently started putting in few nissans here and there. And then again you see hondas, it is a problem, but i dont care I dont subrcribe to any of the primedia magazines, they all hidious and for little kids who want to know "how the exhaust gases are coming out from that HKS exhaust" (My brother subribes to them and i just take them with me on the train, so i dont get bored. To point how dumb chris is, you obveously havent followed his story. So please. And if he didnt mean what the editor wrote, im sure he reads the actuall article before it is posted in a magazine. Theres no way you or him can change my mind about this freaggin idiot chris r. after this article. Oh and if you havent read the article please do so and then post here and defend this idiot.

[Nissan-S14]

Oh and and for a stupid celica, Crhis R. calls drift cars gheto and not all that. Hell yea im going to talk smack about his dumb A$$ FWD celica.

[marleyskater420]

The article is just BS. Its pretty much what the originator of this post described it as. Yes, I have the magazine next to me.