Toymods Car Club Inc: General Car Talk => rofl check out these comments on drift.

Toymods Car Club
www.toymods.org.au

F.A.Q.

Home

Members

Toymods » General Car Talk » rofl check out these comments on drift. Show: Today's Posts :: Show Polls Email to friend

Author

Topic

bathurst-91
Forums Junkie

Location:
Sydney
Registered:
April 2004

Re: rofl check out these comments on drift.

Thu, 10 February 2005 00:02

fangsport wrote on Tue, 08 February 2005 16:32

bathurst, no i have never watched, nor am i racing to a video store to watch some fictional charecter in his AE86. woohoo, it has a cult following........so what.

That was meant to be a sarcastic joke pertaining the hostility you hold towards drift, with a hint of sarcastic truth. I admire cup rally up there with the main types of motorsport I love (WRC, F1, JGTC, D1). With that said perhaps you should look into the history of drift (as in the japanese historyof it) more carefully.

A quick rundown... In the hills of Japan for the past 2 decades (or perhaps more) but more recently in the last decade amatuer drivers (and in some case professionals) have been having 'touge' runs against each other on mountain passes with fatal drop offs. (simply insane) It is a culture that no one would have ever heard of if it wasnt for an entertaining cartoon. This aside. Enter Keiichi Tsuchiya. A ciruit racer who earnt the nickname 'dorikin' (or drift king) because he actually used to do this (while leading) on certain corners to carry more entry speed (all to pretty much please the crowd). He won several circuit class cups in the AE86 years back. That aside, drift started to work its way into the mountain courses (and the touge races) for pure pleasure...

Imagine a WRC mountain course section. Take away the maps, make it exclusively at night and then add touge format. And you have the first steps of the birth of the "real" drift culture.

Incase your wondering Touge basically means a 2car race. No overtaking (because the courses were simply not wide enough). A driver would win buy leaving his opponent behind. So if your at the rear and you stick with the front driver its either considered a draw (then you swap positions and go again) or in some cases (sudden death) its called a loss to the front driver if the rear keeps up.

It began with a bunch of drivers who were out to have fun for themselves. And now its a big tournament in Japan known as D1. And as it spreads to Australia and certain groups of people jump on board who think its the next autosalon I totally understand that some of the older folk might think its a joke "a wank" or whatever. But dont let people who have stumbled from the autosalon "maccanats" crowd fool you with their "Im a s1k driftah" talk. If you get into the grit of it, you know who is there for what.

/endrant.
sorry that was a bit long.

[Updated on: Thu, 10 February 2005 00:03]

[Report message to a moderator]

[Message index]

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Mon Dec 23 06:46:05 UTC 2024

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.010410070419312 seconds

.:: Contact :: Home ::.