Drift Video...must watch

[Jusepi97sx]

its like the circus of drifting.... gotta love them japs....

[Megaseth]

hahah, i was thinking that too. "mommy, daddy, lets go to the circus! i wanna see the 86, and the S13, and S14, and S15, and R34s and R33s, and R32s! and the clowns!! send in the clowns!!"

[ucfz31s13]

I'd love to see some stuff like that in person...That red silvia at the end was sweet...

lataz

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[miteymax86]

Man, that is crazy go nuts

[Eklectrick]

OMG I don't think the american Drift scene could ever reach that level of coolness . . . and I hope it never does cuz it would be sponsored by mountain dew.

[Onizuka]

being a nascar driver would be very hard, but watching it is still boring as can be. "can yah guess which way they are going to turn next bob?"

I would watch any non-oval track type car racing anyday over nascar. Rally is where its at. and roadcourses, they are really cool too...

[Repo Man]

I would watch any non-oval track type car racing anyday over nascar. Rally is where its at. and roadcourses, they are really cool too...

PREACH IT BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ylsuper

[Cyberkreig]

drift video = WOW! My new favorite.Thats saying something when i have:I have 600mb drift movies.1.9 gigs of other car movies (including the gumball)5gigs for the complete initial D series (and movies

EDIT: yeah, that was just pointless bragging that only goes to show i need to get out of my house more. But the vide really is that cool!

[AZhitman]

:Werd

HOWEVER, let me play devil's advocate here and remind you guys that we did very similar s*** back in the day in old musclecars...

Drove a 70 Cuda AAR 440 that would go sideways in a straight line fully locked up as long as you wanted it to. My 68 GS would do that pendulum-type drift (like they do early on in the vid) as long as the road held out... Of course, then we had to shop on credit at the tire shop...

Skills, yes. More skills than ANY pro racer? A resounding NO.

[Onizuka]

:Werd

HOWEVER, let me play devil's advocate here and remind you guys that we did very similar s*** back in the day in old musclecars...

Drove a 70 Cuda AAR 440 that would go sideways in a straight line fully locked up as long as you wanted it to. My 68 GS would do that pendulum-type drift (like they do early on in the vid) as long as the road held out... Of course, then we had to shop on credit at the tire shop...

Skills, yes. More skills than ANY pro racer? A resounding NO.

Can a 70 Cuda AAR 440 do this?...

http://c-racing.hp.infoseek.co...3.wmv

I think not. Low speed drifting like that takes an asre load of control and practise.

Powersliding is a difforent form of having fun

[Eklectrick]

Lets not turn this into an old vs. new this vs. that kind of thread. These drivers have incredible control over their cars. it ain't new, you've seen driving like this in movies by stunt drivers for years, but it is the first time it has been done in such a large recreational/spectator style. Nascar drivers don't have it easy. if it was that easy everyone would be doing it, and nobody would be watching it. its just apples and oranges.

[Holisticbeatz]

Damn!

That little video was a small segment of the drift VCD that came with this months Option magazine. I already watched the whole thing anyways..

[gunclap]

i really like watching those f1 cars go around in the oval. i get excited and everything, but when i try to watch the nascar races, i get freakin bored and my head starts hurting!

[AZhitman]

Can a 70 Cuda AAR 440 do this?...

Absolutely. Certainly not as gracefully, but I'll be that same driver could do the same thing in the Cuda. He's obviously talented.

I'm just saying that "organized" drifting is a different set of skills, but no more difficult than any other form of professional motorsports.

[Radian]

I would watch any non-oval track type car racing anyday over nascar. Rally is where its at. and roadcourses, they are really cool too...

They run a couple of road tracks in nascar. I saw one on TV a few years ago-it was horrible! A train wreck! Kept hitting eachother and couldn't keep it on the course.

H8er!!

[JohnI3laze]

Well, I don't know if I'd go that far.

I'd say there's an equivalent amount of skill involved... Drifting is interesting, and takes skill, but nowhere near as hairy as doing 200mph with 5 other cars inches apart.

I guess I opened a can of worms. my bad, I wasn't trying to say that nascar driving takes no skill. I just meant that its sad how popular it is compared to the 0 recognition that drifting gets. They are apples and oranges like someone said already. I just think Nascar would be a lot more inresting if the drivers had to gas up and change tires themselves. No pit crew, now that would be entertaining.

[AZhitman]

I agree 100% with that, John!

I think it'd be better if they were all drunk.

[Eklectrick]

I agree 100% with that, John!

I think it'd be better if they were all drunk.

I think that's called stock car racing.

Quote »I just meant that its sad how popular it is compared to the 0 recognition that drifting gets[/quote]

As I said earlier, be careful what you wish for. If drifting ever gets popular in the states to that extent, it will be totally commercialized and played out to the fullest. It will become an X-games sport and overhyped and it will just turn ghey. kids will start killing themselves in parking lots and laws will start getting passed to restrict and define what drifting is. It's prolly gonna happen anyway, I just hope it doesn't. I'll just move to japan if I wanna see drifting like that on a daily basis.