D R I F T I N G "King of Kingz"

D R I F T I N G

Drifting first was developed in Japan. Japanese used sport compact cars to street race...This street race formed into drifting. There are many who dared to drift in Japan, but only a a chosen few actually went up against the "King of Kingz" of drifting in the mountains in Japan at night...this is how the drifting culture / way of life was created.

But soon, America caught up with drifting and made it more than necessary....drifting has become a hobby...

Cars such as the Nissan 240 SX (Silvias in general), Toyota Supra, Maxda RX-7, Corolla 86' , and Skylines have been ideal cars to drift with.....out of all these cars one is held the "best drifting car" in Japan - Corolla 86' or AKA **hachi jyuu roku**

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Although the overall sport-compact movement is based chiefly on front-drive cars, drifting works much better withrear drive. Performing a power slide with a high-horsepower, rear-drive car is fairly simple, while the technique required
with a front-drive car is far more challenging (tremendous amounts of power are needed to drag the rear end through turns) and generally not nearly as crowd-pleasing.

note - If u wish to drift or start drifting, remember that most racers burn out a tire in about 30 min of drifting.....this "hobby" is very expensive.....

The most simplest way to put how they judge drifting scores depends on how close the racer can get to the wall in the rear, how close the car can come to "kiss" the wall in the front, how much smoke the racer can force when drifiting, and of course the audience / spectators who chant and scream for winners.

Skyline vs RX-7


Silvia S15 vs S15 - Lil Dan


Ranked 1 - Team Orange taking the win at Irwindale

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Great pictures, where did you get them?
I think they just started a D1 drift club over here in the UK if anyone is interested in learning how to do it, or just wants to wtch others being stupidly funny on track. I love drift racing, it was my favourite part of Need For Speed : Underground

Originally posted by Ripper3
Great pictures, where did you get them?

http://www.motortrend.com/searchresu...fting&x=10&y=6 Go here and click some of them links, and then the pics will come up.....and WOW they got a drifting club in the UK thats tight

are u sure that is a mustang, coz damn! it looks so much like an S15 as well

ur right they do look very similar in the front end.....cross??

EDIT: Maybe he can answer when he returns from Korea, not Thai, my fault

Alright i found a internet cafe while in this small town....and ive come to CPF after 13 hours of longs flight-time....I think it might be the S15 because i have no idea why someone would drift with a mustang.
Mustangs have a HEAVY block and is harder to manuveur at high speeds while drifting...Both the S15 and mustang look a like in the front, and i guess by looking at the height of the green car it is a S15...

Sorry for the mistake------edit poll info.

aren't those pictures from d1gp a few months ago? my buddies went and said it was sick...i couldn't make it though however i am planning on watching the u.s. vs. japan main event in december.

ya the green one is a S15, the mirrors on it are way diff form the mustang 99+ ones.... go to stangnet.com and look

The only time I've encountered drifting is on Need For Speed Underground and I use the Mazda MX-5.

Drifting is pretty cool, but drags (with street cars) is way better

drifting = art not racing

too true

would love to come watch some 'uk' drifting just say where when how n how much

driftings amazing, went to see a show a while back, craaaazy, wouldnt exactly consider it a racing sport tho, those drift shows are just... well.. shows lol

lol more like ART

drfifiting is awesome...the us drift competition came to charlotte,nc and was pretty cool event to see in person.