when was your first time....drifting?
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e30 gangsta
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xero240 said:
no comment. And why should i be jealous of nissan? do they rock out in f1?
BLADDER_MASTER
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e30 gangsta said:
Technically yes. Since Renault owns a part of Nissan.
e30 gangsta
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well no nissan badges. Nissan should start building there own chassi and motor and enter f1.
J-Fiend138
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e30 gangsta said:
F1 & WRC are definitely motorsports requiring the most skill. It's not easy to control an MR at 200+mph, and I'm sure nobody can deny you need balls to drive in a snow rally at high speeds.
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e30 gangsta said:
I don't know if Nissan has the resources like Toyota and Ferrari to build their own chassis and motor for F1.
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J-Fiend138
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Honda does it but then again Honda has way more resources than Nissan also.
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Nelvis138 said:
Wrong. Honda builds the engine, BAR builds the chassis. Thats why it's called BAR Honda.
We're getting off-topic here. Um, so I slid a 240SX and hit a curb. Bye bye lip.
J-Fiend138
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BLADDER_MASTER said:
Sorry about that I forgot to put in the BAR part but then again like you said it's not funded by Honda so that defeats the purpose. Yeah noobs get on-topic I saw an S13 with a black hood it was JDM-tyte(Keep in mind it was painted black not Carbon just another guy faking the funk).
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Nelvis138 said:
Well, just to bring you up to date, Honda bought a percentage of BAR. So now Honda is partly funding them.
J-Fiend138
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Good to know I haven't been into F1 as much as I would like this year. I saw last weeks race though.
Hahaha, some of you are retarded. If you were sliding and didn't know what you were doing, you weren't drifting, sorry. I used to ride around in a shifter cart my dad got me as a kid and my favorite thing to do was 'pop the clutch and burn rubber'. Was I a drifter? No, I was a devious kid that wanted to make noise. Did I drift? No, but I had fun. It's a long story as to how I learned about drifting, but to make it short, basically I got to drive a bunch of imported JDM cars and fell in love with the Evo IV. I went on a quest to find out everything I could about it and other cars like it. In my searches, I stumbled upon drifting. My first actual real drift attempt was when I got my WRX early in 01. I would take it to dirt courses here in WPB and slide it. AWD on dirt makes it kinda easy. When I first tried on the asphalt, I crashed into a curb and bent my control arm. I didn't attempt drifting on asphalt again until I got my 240. It was hard to learn b/c almost nobody knew what it was back then. Vic, myself, big John (turbo miata), and a couple others would sit around and talk about it and watch videos/read imported mags but then we actually started trying to do it. Vic caught on the quickest, but couldn't afford to keep his car running and I was always scared to really try anything...I'd always try to power over with a beat-*** KA and understeer bad. Not until the Falken Drift Showoff in Homestead did I actually learn and try.
As for the bandwagon talk; no, the inventor of the sport of drifting was not the only non-bandwagoner. If one actually knows what the definition of a bandwagon is, one would have to be a complete and total moron to think this way. One becomes a bandwagoner when he realizes that it’s the cool or smart thing to do. Sort of like becoming a fan of the winning team. Drag racers turned drifters. People who traded in their Civic Si’s and ‘Tegs’ for 240’s. Those are the bandwagoners. The original people that got involved did so because they were truly interested in the sport, not the attention it gets or because they saw a way to make more money. THEY were not bandwagoners. They were true fans. They are still involved in the sport today and they will always have an interest in it. When/If drifting becomes a thing of the past here in the USA, it will be easy to tell who was really interested and who jumped on the bandwagon.
And if you are a bandwagoner, you will likely defend yourself about it 24/7 because you want to be that cool guy that was involved years ago. But really, who cares? You’ve been doing it since you were in the womb? Fine by me as long as you actually try to drift now, show up to events, and/or help/practice; you’re cool in my book. It's all about support and participation. E-drifters piss me off though and that’s what you guys should be more concerned with. You all that talk the talk but don’t support your local drivers or events because you’re either not entering, helping, or showing up at all are ruining any chances of drifting surviving here in FL. Ironically you’ll also be the first people to ***** about it being gone when/if it is too…
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As for the bandwagon talk; no, the inventor of the sport of drifting was not the only non-bandwagoner. If one actually knows what the definition of a bandwagon is, one would have to be a complete and total moron to think this way. One becomes a bandwagoner when he realizes that it’s the cool or smart thing to do. Sort of like becoming a fan of the winning team. Drag racers turned drifters. People who traded in their Civic Si’s and ‘Tegs’ for 240’s. Those are the bandwagoners. The original people that got involved did so because they were truly interested in the sport, not the attention it gets or because they saw a way to make more money. THEY were not bandwagoners. They were true fans. They are still involved in the sport today and they will always have an interest in it. When/If drifting becomes a thing of the past here in the USA, it will be easy to tell who was really interested and who jumped on the bandwagon.
And if you are a bandwagoner, you will likely defend yourself about it 24/7 because you want to be that cool guy that was involved years ago. But really, who cares? You’ve been doing it since you were in the womb? Fine by me as long as you actually try to drift now, show up to events, and/or help/practice; you’re cool in my book. It's all about support and participation. E-drifters piss me off though and that’s what you guys should be more concerned with. You all that talk the talk but don’t support your local drivers or events because you’re either not entering, helping, or showing up at all are ruining any chances of drifting surviving here in FL. Ironically you’ll also be the first people to ***** about it being gone when/if it is too…
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Alchemist XL
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purple is the ****
