Crouching tiger hidden dorifta

[zanda]

the pro dritfing circuit does much to glamorise nippon drifting. whack vids. cool 80s jackets. screaming commentators. bizniss.

but drift in its purest sense is about young kids with no money buying old fast cars and racing them through the japanese mountains in the rain.

came across this link the other day. shows the mountains, curve by curve, in "all they heavenlee glowree".

Mountain drft gallery

[slip]

what a load of bollocks. Drift is drift, its not about who does it, where, or in what car, its about mad sideways action and very large testicles (or boobs for girl drifters). Nothing more, nothing less.

[zanda]

:bahaha:

I fink you might be missing the point.

1. Here is gallery full of pretty pictures.

2. Here is the reason to look at them.

Drifting is as much about skill as it is about big bollocks. these mountains are the roots of the sport and the curves and bends therein are the training grounds for some of the best known Japanese drifting teams.

"do you have big bollocks?

can I touch them?"

[Duncan]

Good site, the pics are from the roads in the initiald series....and the map of mt akina shows they've done a realistic job of putting the game together

[(B1) MR_fanny]

"WAHWAH WEE-WAH!!"

[Guest MRE]

Drift was inspired from Ridge Racer :boobies2:

[coco69]

wow... that's a very cool site...

i didn't know that the courses and mounts in initial D really existed. that's pretty cool. the c-121 corner at Mt.Usui looks deadly, and so does the irohazaka jump that the mr2 makes at irohazaka. and i'll wont forget watching iD for the first time and seeing that blue sileighty driving along that bridge at Usui.

cool find!

[rb26dett]

the courses in the cartoon are real. the mountains are real. even the drift action was drawn from analysing dorikin tsuchiya keiichi drift his ae86.

another thing i'd like to clear. the jap boys aren't mostly like takumi. in fact they're more like the takahashi brothers who own rx7s.

i can confirm that different places in japan are owned by different makes of cars (e.g. toyota supra, nissan skyline, etc) who claim ownership over the mountain passes. and at nite, only those boys come out to play. anything under 600bhp cannot be found in the street drags and/or mountain passes at night.

these boys are rich arse people and are living where the cutting edge of aftermarket japanese motorsports conduct their business, which makes their pursuit for the ultimate in machine power and control so much easier, not to mention cheaper.