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FORGIVE ME FOR WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY.
I'M SURE I'M NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO SAY THIS.
AND I'M SURE I'LL PUT MY FOOT IN MY MOUTH ONCE AGAIN.
Alot of the hype being dragged along with the expansion of the drifting. In the US before drifting came around they used to call it "getting loose" now even on NASCAR they talk about a drift.
Drifting is growing exponentionally. I think its a double-edged blade. On one side you have a great motorsport that grows as fast as the people can drive. On the other hand you have this sport where many wish and try to do things they aren't able to do (its either the fact is they dont have the time, the money, the experience, or the proper places to practice). I hate the fact that they've tried to glorify drifting. Back in the day when people pulled off a controlled slide they didn't have time to think about what to call it or how to prefect it, they were just happy they didnt crash. Kind've goes back to the Bootleggers on the dirt roads of the mountians even before the 1960's where the Japanese prefected it into a racing techinque. These Bootleggers in the 40's were just trying to loose the cops trying to chase them down those dirt roads on the foot hills of the Smokey Mountians. They were hillbillys, they were just trying to escape.
What sux is games like Ridge Racer and Need4Speed Underground and the others where u drift on these tracks that feel like "auto-drift". From what i can gather these games are out there to put attention on a growing sport. Many of us would rather whine and cry about how things aren't how they should be instead of trying to make them better.
Yes, I've spun out and broke things trying to control a slide.
Yes, I own both Fast and Furious (and critiqued them)
Yes, I watched InitialD with the subs (and learned alot)
Yes, I've tried to read every article with the word "Drift"
Yes, I've tried to prefect side-by-side drifting on GT3
Yes, I want to buy and learn everything about drifting i can.
But the problem remains,
Many of us dont have the funds or the location to do so.
If we keep bitchin' about rules and how drifting might burn itself out, the faster it will dissapear. The further people go with the sport the further the rules will go. We can complain all we want, things will just adapt and change just like everyting else.
I envy drivers in FormulaD and the D1. I envy every racer period. Anyone who has the skill and the talent to push their machine to the limit must be respected despite any grudges we may have.
How many of your favorite drivers have wrecked their cars? Atleast they have the luxury of not having to pay for 100% of the repairs. Most of us "wannabe-drifters" dont have another car to just casually wreck, so we play it safe. Maybe we feel like punks and ask alot of dumbass questions cause we wanna learn. Yeah, we're not out on the tracks kicking *Censored**Censored**Censored*, and i know we still whomp on our cars occasinally when we can get away with it. Even tho we aren't out there tearing tires up we still respect the motorsport and try to guide it in the right direction.
I'm not hero when it comes to driving, and i wont act like i know it all. I converse with all of you on the basis of learning. Right now i consider 99% of you to be better drivers than myself just because i'd rather learn.
On a better note, with out all this media attention parts and time would be alot more expensive. Many of the FormulaD Profs wouldn't have as much money. (that made no sense)
The next note may offend some california drivers...
Dont get too pissed but some of the california so-called drifters are nothing more than traffic drivers with expensive tuner-cars.
Why would you put a stage 3 clutch, a turbo and a big exhaust in ur car only to sit in traffic and listen to music?? Eventho out there you get to attend the kickass drift events your still the same as everyone else, you dont want to go out there and brake something. Repairs are expensive, doesn't matter who you know or what you know.
Granted the more this motorsport expands the cheaper parts and repairs will get, but its till bothers me to see 240s with huge exhaust and no internal modifications. (I'm sure some of you readers may disagree with my statement) Instead of saying who did what and who made what. We instead need to band together. Like Stallone said in Rocky IV "I love almost everybody" We need to be a group. If drifting isn't a competetive sport then it should be a learning and practicing experience.
Cause Driftin' is...
the gradual DEVIATION from the original course.
We should stop all this crybaby crap and instead try to further our skill and further this motorsport. Look how huge NASCAR has gotten in the last 3 years, now Dale Jr. has his own bucket of chicken at KFC. I dont want that to happen with drifting. I dont want to go to McDonalds and see an advertisement for the
McPfeiffer....
Yeah, forgive me for posting when i'm drunk.
i know i flipped around on these subjects, but go ahead and feel
free to bust my balls...
L8r,
AJB
FORGIVE ME FOR WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY.
I'M SURE I'M NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO SAY THIS.
AND I'M SURE I'LL PUT MY FOOT IN MY MOUTH ONCE AGAIN.
Alot of the hype being dragged along with the expansion of the drifting. In the US before drifting came around they used to call it "getting loose" now even on NASCAR they talk about a drift.
Drifting is growing exponentionally. I think its a double-edged blade. On one side you have a great motorsport that grows as fast as the people can drive. On the other hand you have this sport where many wish and try to do things they aren't able to do (its either the fact is they dont have the time, the money, the experience, or the proper places to practice). I hate the fact that they've tried to glorify drifting. Back in the day when people pulled off a controlled slide they didn't have time to think about what to call it or how to prefect it, they were just happy they didnt crash. Kind've goes back to the Bootleggers on the dirt roads of the mountians even before the 1960's where the Japanese prefected it into a racing techinque. These Bootleggers in the 40's were just trying to loose the cops trying to chase them down those dirt roads on the foot hills of the Smokey Mountians. They were hillbillys, they were just trying to escape.
What sux is games like Ridge Racer and Need4Speed Underground and the others where u drift on these tracks that feel like "auto-drift". From what i can gather these games are out there to put attention on a growing sport. Many of us would rather whine and cry about how things aren't how they should be instead of trying to make them better.
Yes, I've spun out and broke things trying to control a slide.
Yes, I own both Fast and Furious (and critiqued them)
Yes, I watched InitialD with the subs (and learned alot)
Yes, I've tried to read every article with the word "Drift"
Yes, I've tried to prefect side-by-side drifting on GT3
Yes, I want to buy and learn everything about drifting i can.
But the problem remains,
Many of us dont have the funds or the location to do so.
If we keep bitchin' about rules and how drifting might burn itself out, the faster it will dissapear. The further people go with the sport the further the rules will go. We can complain all we want, things will just adapt and change just like everyting else.
I envy drivers in FormulaD and the D1. I envy every racer period. Anyone who has the skill and the talent to push their machine to the limit must be respected despite any grudges we may have.
How many of your favorite drivers have wrecked their cars? Atleast they have the luxury of not having to pay for 100% of the repairs. Most of us "wannabe-drifters" dont have another car to just casually wreck, so we play it safe. Maybe we feel like punks and ask alot of dumbass questions cause we wanna learn. Yeah, we're not out on the tracks kicking *Censored**Censored**Censored*, and i know we still whomp on our cars occasinally when we can get away with it. Even tho we aren't out there tearing tires up we still respect the motorsport and try to guide it in the right direction.
I'm not hero when it comes to driving, and i wont act like i know it all. I converse with all of you on the basis of learning. Right now i consider 99% of you to be better drivers than myself just because i'd rather learn.
On a better note, with out all this media attention parts and time would be alot more expensive. Many of the FormulaD Profs wouldn't have as much money. (that made no sense)
The next note may offend some california drivers...
Dont get too pissed but some of the california so-called drifters are nothing more than traffic drivers with expensive tuner-cars.
Why would you put a stage 3 clutch, a turbo and a big exhaust in ur car only to sit in traffic and listen to music?? Eventho out there you get to attend the kickass drift events your still the same as everyone else, you dont want to go out there and brake something. Repairs are expensive, doesn't matter who you know or what you know.
Granted the more this motorsport expands the cheaper parts and repairs will get, but its till bothers me to see 240s with huge exhaust and no internal modifications. (I'm sure some of you readers may disagree with my statement) Instead of saying who did what and who made what. We instead need to band together. Like Stallone said in Rocky IV "I love almost everybody" We need to be a group. If drifting isn't a competetive sport then it should be a learning and practicing experience.
Cause Driftin' is...
the gradual DEVIATION from the original course.
We should stop all this crybaby crap and instead try to further our skill and further this motorsport. Look how huge NASCAR has gotten in the last 3 years, now Dale Jr. has his own bucket of chicken at KFC. I dont want that to happen with drifting. I dont want to go to McDonalds and see an advertisement for the
McPfeiffer....
Yeah, forgive me for posting when i'm drunk.
i know i flipped around on these subjects, but go ahead and feel
free to bust my balls...
L8r,
AJB
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