onederful100

drifting is like synchronized swimming of the auto world.

wayne613

Still, gotta have at least one other doing it with you for that to be really a true parallel to draw.

Recon111

Wayne
What ever you think, If it quacks like a duck and swims like a duck, It's probably a Duck. A controlled slide on cement or any other surface is just that, a controlled slide, You can call it what ever name you wish and presume any one section is harder than the other, but I would guess that the guys that slide sideways up pies peak might differ that what they do is not as hard as sliding around on spinning, smoking, back tires. It's all in the balance.

onederful100

back in high school i was having fun drifting my mom's ford granada in the rain around corners.
ended up over steering and over correcting, and crashing straight into a wall.
drifting was not meant for a granada. lol.

wayne613

Thing is, to me your saying because it flies it´s a duck, and looks like it from thousands of feet out that it is, not because it quacks or looks like one up close.
Not many places outside of the major cities wouldn´t have similar spots that many test their luck with I´d wager. We have our own few spots here that many do the same with.

Comparatively speaking, it seems more like boasting about being able to hit a baseball at 80mph at a batting cage, thinking you´d be able to hit off a major league pitcher, while you might be able to, the difference once subjected to the later in skill to do so as successfully as the previous would be quite a bit higher.

Recon111

Wayne
In your mind the "drifting" is compaired to the Major league pitcher, I think it would be more compaired to the batting cage. It's just balance, Saying something is more difficult don't really make it more difficult, it's just what you think.

wayne613

Still gotta say, without having done this at this level on a track I still think your comparing say, Diving into the deep end of a pool from the edge as being the same thing as cliff-diving.

Sorry, I'm really just going to need to throw the "aaaaaallllrighty-then" card out on this and just let it go. But still fun.

Recon111

aaaalllrightyyy then back at ya

ikemikestang

Then why isn't everyone being payed six figures for drifting cars professionally?

Your arguing with people just to argue and make your self feel "accomplished". So stop it and go hug your mother.

JIM5.0

It rained the other day, and I actually drifted! Just my stupidity really, I took a corner to fast and in an effort to try to shift the weight of my car forward, I made the mistake of gassing it instead of braking!

My front wheels stayed glued to the asphalt, but my rear wheels were spinning freely on the wet road. It was so much fun that I din't want to let up off the gas!

Damn, I guess I will have to get a cheap set of rims with cheap tires and find some open and safe place to do this.