mmkay...totally interested...if you dont hit me up for this, ill hunt you down la~

josh

 

You can drift anything. AWD cars, as a matter of fact are easier to drift and they are a lot faster drifters. That is why AWD is banned from D1.

 

why did u change the options on the poll??

 

sounds tiote...i want in on this...next spring though yeah?!? need to pull together some money

 

I guess I'm just not interested in drifting. I voted Thanks though, Alex.

 

Interested.

An Idea: If it's multi-day, how about a day on the asphalt, and a day on the dirt.

 

$500 is a lot of money compared to other track day type events. I'd rather pay less and learn from a lesser pro. Doesnt have to be the best pro in the industry at this point.

How about renting an airfield/parking lot for a series of i-club drift days with local instructors on hand. Get a few of these under the belt then drop the $500 D1 King event.

Speaking of which... are there any local drift instruction events?

 

Guys, you are missing the main point.

That will not be a track day.

That will be a 1-on-1 drifting lessons.

No local instructors will ever be able to drift or teach how to drift the way D1 drivers will. Thats a fact.

 

awesome idea, i'm willing to pay more than 500 for such an experience. drifting by itself is more like a potential artful in balance and control of the car, and having such a well known, highly experienced, and successful Ueo doing personal instructions on how to correct your form while he's in the passenger seat with you would be like learning from Takumi.

BUT i also agree with the previous posts that for a beginner, the value of having such instruction would be questioned. Would it be easier to have somebody else from the D1 competition (a good chunk of them live in sunny state of california) teach the beginners than at the 4th session or something, we have Ueo refine our skills even more.

That, and the other point that i want to mention is that the instructer has to be familar with the awd cars, our subies has different handling characteristics and a different way to drift...personally the best way for me to drift out of all of the basic movements is a combination of a powerslide and a feint drift, but without the lsd and lower hp of the rs, that's typical. just a point to double check on.


awesome idea, and this post made by the big guy himself just sealed my love to the club :banana: heh, drifting hehehe

 

That's what I was trying to say...

 

just reorganized your ideas
thanks man, great minds think alike

 

im intrested need more info esp pricing to firm it up tho. Would be a blast. Count me in (unless pricing is out of my range)

 

Offtopic, but since you brought it up...just FYI this is totally false.

You cant drift an AWD car at the speeds that an FR car can because it will scrub off too much speed and momentum, and want to regain traction. In an FR, you can initiate at very high speeds, keep a small angle, and keep the car sliding for a really long distance. With AWD you are committed to having high angle and shorter distance because of all the traction (this is assuming of course you dont have a 1000awhp car that can do a standing burnout). If youve ever seen an impreza at a driftday event you'd know what I mean. This is not to say that you cant use an AWD car as Ive seen an impreza on a drift team in japan before and he was doing very well (although who knows if AWD was enabled or not).

You dont see AWD cars in D1 not because theyre banned but because an AWD car wouldnt be very competitive.

 

This is why they disabled the AWD systems on some of the cars in that award-winning movie, 2 Fast 2 Furious. They couldn't get the cars to do the wild things the audience expected to see.

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LOL!!! "award winning"