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When I first discovered drifting many years ago drag racing was almost non existent too me. Only Driver I knew by name was Papadakis and due to his presence on mainstream TV shows and magazines. And with a airbrushed godlike physique in magazine adds I thought Ed Bergenholtz was a model turned racer. Drag racing just plain didn’t interest me for many reasons. Growing up in the IE, the street racing scene was full of stock or swapped 90s hondas. And if you had cash you probably drove an eclipse, Celica, GTI, RSX, Prelude, or something of that nature. Essentially something kind of fast and was easy to modify.
The scene was full of teenagers and men in there 20s who spent most of the time talking trash before actually racing. Maybe for 20 to a few hundred bucks at the most, and if someone did race for “pinks” their car wasn’t worth much in the first place and was probably built off stolen parts. Don’t act like you don’t remember the term “sleeper”, a car that looked stock or looked like sh!t that was pretty fast. Something like a primer CRX with some sort of B18 or something. I haven’t been to the street races in years but the last time I went the crowd didn’t change a whole lot. Only noticeable changes I saw were a lack of attractive untaken women lol, and kids huffing balloons filled with nitrous oxide. It seemed like a bad house party more then an act of illegal motorsports. Now you might ask why I’m I just talking about the illegal side of the sport and not the real thing. Well because basically that’s all I really know about it. I was raised on F1 and Lemans, and took interest in mini trucks more less to piss off my dad before discovering drifting.
But while in Vegas sitting in the stands during qualifying, as I usually do if someone near me doesn’t quite understand what’s going on I always politely inform and educate them. As I was doing this a man in his 30s made a comment saying something about how he cant stand drifting and how it killed Spocom drag. I turned and smiled back and jokingly said “What’s Spocom Drag, import cars dressing up as domestic cars?”. The guy had a sense of humor and we struck up a 15 minute conversation about the subject. With him basically saying that Drifting took all the spocom sponsors, market, venues, etc etc. I kind of replied with agreeance, but pointed out certain drag race teams took it upon them selves to get into the sport of drifting. As well as the fact there have been collaboration events with both drift and drag and that some drag organizers tried to start there own drift series. And I also pointed out that the market is ever evolving and with the downward economy some companies just didn’t have anything left.
So umm yeah
What do you guys think, why is spocom drag in the position that its in today? Or is everything live and well in the scene?
The scene was full of teenagers and men in there 20s who spent most of the time talking trash before actually racing. Maybe for 20 to a few hundred bucks at the most, and if someone did race for “pinks” their car wasn’t worth much in the first place and was probably built off stolen parts. Don’t act like you don’t remember the term “sleeper”, a car that looked stock or looked like sh!t that was pretty fast. Something like a primer CRX with some sort of B18 or something. I haven’t been to the street races in years but the last time I went the crowd didn’t change a whole lot. Only noticeable changes I saw were a lack of attractive untaken women lol, and kids huffing balloons filled with nitrous oxide. It seemed like a bad house party more then an act of illegal motorsports. Now you might ask why I’m I just talking about the illegal side of the sport and not the real thing. Well because basically that’s all I really know about it. I was raised on F1 and Lemans, and took interest in mini trucks more less to piss off my dad before discovering drifting.
But while in Vegas sitting in the stands during qualifying, as I usually do if someone near me doesn’t quite understand what’s going on I always politely inform and educate them. As I was doing this a man in his 30s made a comment saying something about how he cant stand drifting and how it killed Spocom drag. I turned and smiled back and jokingly said “What’s Spocom Drag, import cars dressing up as domestic cars?”. The guy had a sense of humor and we struck up a 15 minute conversation about the subject. With him basically saying that Drifting took all the spocom sponsors, market, venues, etc etc. I kind of replied with agreeance, but pointed out certain drag race teams took it upon them selves to get into the sport of drifting. As well as the fact there have been collaboration events with both drift and drag and that some drag organizers tried to start there own drift series. And I also pointed out that the market is ever evolving and with the downward economy some companies just didn’t have anything left.
So umm yeah
What do you guys think, why is spocom drag in the position that its in today? Or is everything live and well in the scene?
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