I was watching Speed TV and saw a show called Redline TV (pretty good, but needs better talent) and Kasey Kane from Dodge/NASCAR has a charity event where NASCAR drivers drift...it was quite funny seeing Bill Elliott driving a G35 drifting, something I never thought I'd ever, ever see.

Quite frankly I think it's fantastic on what Kasey is doing...for charity, exposing new racing (for the US market), and it looked like they all were having a ball doing it! Anyone else see it? Just cracked me up, in a good way...but great TV!

 

Drifting isn't new to America just incase you didn't know. America invented it and its called dirt trackers.....Ever see those guys with those 800hp big winged outlaws? I bet they could teach the Japanese a thing or two in car control.

 

Sorry dude...I grew up in NC and NACSAR and dirt track (glad you think it's like drifting but completely different styles/cars/engines/tires/suspensions/track/etc...) are on the sports every night and I don't see it as the same. I, personally was impressed with Kasey for his effort to branch out, sorry you are not.

 

just because you don't see it as "the same" doesn't mean guys on gravel roads or tar haven't been hanging the ass end out all along. I remember a guy in high school gaining a bit of local celebrity/notoriety for doing a sideways drift all the way around the local Hardee's one Friday night in his V8 Camaro. Sorry, hanging the ass end out isn't "new," even if organizing contests built around it might be in Japan. The only thing new about the drift fad is doing it in public in organized events. And perhaps trying to call it a "sport."

I'd actually like the comps if it were not so JDM ghey'd up for the ricer crowd.

Don't take this to mean I am criticizing your posts. I didn't see the show, but it sounds cool.

 

Sorry...I don't see going in circles on dirt or at the local Hardee's the same as what those guys are doing on drift tracks.

 

Do they only drift to the left?

 

Yea, I bet they have more "drift" skill than those who slide in real roads.

Also, by the way you typed, I assume you haven't seen WRC neither.