Pretty much the most dangerous thing I've experienced in months.

[|ncary 0]

Went to Boy's Day Out yesterday here, and it was alllll right sort of, until the drifting came on. Now I'm not a huge fan of show drifting, but when you are standing literally 2 meters away from the outside of the final clipping point with only temporary fence separating you from cars doing roughly 80-90kph at WOT and full lock; it becomes epic.

Brave camera work by SammyJ.

You should have heard people in the crowd after the first run past (video is of a later run), I think half the people moved away, most took steps back. Our ears got filled with melted rubber, I was spitting out bits for hours.

[Driftit 1966]

Back when I thought Drifting was cool.

[pureboiracer 0]

i know what you mean by getting rubber in your ears, i went to the drifing in n.p and these guys managed to get pretty close when they messed up.

[DRTDVL 0]

Blah safety fences...

No zoom used here...

http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e346/DRT...nt=MOV00588.flv

[|ncary 0]

Ha ha! All awesome.

As the drifting demo progressed, the drivers became a lot more cocky and were pretty much hanging a wheel off on the grass there. One guy spun onto the grass and went straight at the fence just at the entry to the corner there, many people ran haha!

[Michael. 2312]

I don't see the appeal of those drifting Jap cars.

Rather see a cool car doing it.

[DRTDVL 0]

As one old school rally guy told me:

"Drifting is just rally for the cotton wool generation"

[|ncary 0]

Really the only thing appealing about it was the good chance of getting crushed by a chainlink fence and getting cut into cubes

[bellicose 9]

One thing i learnt years ago through MANY MANY cold days and nights standing in the middle of nowhere in some rally stage is NEVER EVER EVER stand next to ANYONE with a video camera. I know our race and rally members will atest to the fact that cars DO and WILL seek out video cameras no matter where they are.

[DRTDVL 0]

It's ok i was standing next to a bigger guy with a bigger camera - so they would be drawn to him first...

[pjay 8]

Seeing cars like this kiss the ground sideways is what I mainly love about drifting.

Edited September 27, 2010 by Pjay

[bellicose 9]

Seeing cars like this smack the wall sideways is what I mainly love about drifting.

Fixed

[pjay 8]

Hahaha. Appreciating cars is like appreciating music, as I get older my tastes broaden but I always return to what I grew up on though, so I'm pretty sure this JDM/drift spec/slammed/wank wank phase will pass eventually.. Maybe... I doubt it.

[Driftit 1966]

Hahaha. Appreciating cars is like appreciating music, as I get older my tastes broaden but I always return to what I grew up on though, so I'm pretty sure this JDM/drift spec/slammed/wank wank phase will pass eventually.. Maybe... I doubt it.

You will get over it. Its a switch that just turns off one day. Even though my user name says Driftit. I despise it these days.