Raven Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 D1GP is usually a battle between 2 cars, judging on corner entry speed, style, technique and linking up corners OR team drifting using the same judging criteria. Touge is similar, except that its more of a "who can keep up with who or who can overtake the other person" by the end of the course/moutain pass. Well, that's what I'm led to believe anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 You Know What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumblezzz Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 i only know of shane bingham (white 86), beau yates (silver 4agte 86) i think he drives a wrx now, simon michelmore (black ca18 86), leighton fine (yellow 4agze) and some other guy who drives a brown one, that enter the comps. Its not a black CA18 86 anymore, but yes, Simon. Well, thats how he comes across to me anyway after chattin to him a few times. He's now got a Powder Blue 20V AE86 thats supposedly looking more (jap-spec) than his other rides. Check out memebers rides on toymods for it. If I were to build a drift car, I know I'd put some individuality into it and not try to copy something thats already been done to death. And no Mumblezz, not you :P He doesent come across that way to me. I know Simon quite well and he's always been cool to talk to even back when I was a hachi noob. Also remember he can't always hear you properly and when your at the track your more focused on driving and being friendly and chatty to everyone that walks up to you is kind of at the back of your mind when your trying to find who the f@$k borrowed your cross brace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjenman Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 well yes, it is a show pony motorsport, considering the whole aim of the game is like... style no racing or anything, its just style. pretty left of centre crazy stuff... I'm amazed its even a sport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjenman Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 OMG but if there was a "drift race" people would cheat and not drift in order to win, and it would be a competition to see who can drift the least :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 Yes, Simon used to drive an RX7 and lived in Queensland. He's now in living in Adelaide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ancullen Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 It would seem to me that any truly highly skilled drivers go into other truer forms of motorsport rather than drifting as they wish to have an absolute result (ie. who drove the fastest rather than who gets greatest points for a drift). I'm sure that Michael Schumacher or Ayrton Senna or Tommi Makinen or Peter Brock could win many drift comps if they wanted to (with ease in some cases). In an issue of Wheels from a couple of years back they were comparing Michael Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya. The bit of the article that really captured my attention and imagination was when they described Montoya chasing down Schumacher through a corner. Montoya came in pretty hot, a bit too hot as it turned out, and the in-car footage supposedly showed him catching the tail of his F1 car with one hand on the wheel, while the other was changing some setting in the car or something. He did a little drift, pulled nicely out of the corner, and not long after, overtook Schumacher. I just wished I'd seen the footage. Now that is how drifting should be in motorsport. Yes it was a mistake, but it was a beautifully corrected mistake. It wasn't a full opposite lock, slow maneuvre, just a bit of counter steer with the tail hanging out a little then straight back onto the racing line. Beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ancullen Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 OMG but if there was a "drift race" people would cheat and not drift in order to win, and it would be a competition to see who can drift the least :P You are absolutely dead square on the mark. Hell, even Initial-D agrees with you. Check out the episode where Tak races against Zak in the R32. The R32 had him everywhere, it's just the driver wasn't the better man and the front end got shagged from being too heavy. If only they'd do an episode where they face reality and make Tak lose to someone following a proper racing line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 OMG but if there was a "drift race" people would cheat and not drift in order to win, and it would be a competition to see who can drift the least :D Obviously you'd still hafta drift :angrybird: Otherwise its justa race, not a drift race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMsGPTurbo Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Personally I didn't think much of drifting and going sideways etc at all, to me the best kind of thrill is driving hard in the mountains, however I like the idea of no 2nd chance when driving so Rally appeals to me a lot. Drifting to me has been brought from the underground in Japan and presented on a world platter, and if you know anything about Japanese moden culture you would know they like to be different, hence all the show pony stuff. I respect drifting as it is technical and it does require skill, personally I reakon the cars look fantastic however I like anything designed for race use that looks different. I still wouldn't mind to get a RWD and give it a go and see if I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Revhead[RL] Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 i jsut can't get my head around people spending all that money to go slow :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMsGPTurbo Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 I guess they find it fun :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumblezzz Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Its simple really. I bet theres not one person in this thread who doesent like to drop the clutch and kick it sideways. Some people like it more than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demuire Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Yeah, dropping the clutch in a FWD car just isn't quite the same... *looks at Camry...* :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ke50 Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 unless you are doing a reverse bunout haha :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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