ultimate drifting togue
several tandem runs by the best of the D1 world
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
D1 celebrity car train race - race 2
D1 celebrity car train race - race 1
D1 car train race, 1st heat. Japanese D1 drivers, tuners, organizers in a train race. Front car has no brake pedal, rear car has no accelerator.
Tsuchiya's AE86 and Itsuki's voice actor
Sorry for the bad subtitles.
Check out iceglacier1's cool Initial D AMV if you have the chance to.
Nomuken trying to drift the new GTR
Nomuken trowing around smoky's new GTR this Nissan Skyline GTR R35
D1GP PROFESSIONAL DRIFT : JAPAN EXTREME DRIFTERS
The Autobacs D1 Grand Prix (Japanese: D1グランプリ in katakana, D1 guranpuri in romaji, abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift) is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Option Magazine & Tokyo Auto Salon founder Daijiro Inada, and drifting legend Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting contest in 1999 and 2000 to feed on the ever increasing skills of drifting drivers who were dominating drifting contests in various parts of Japan. In October 2000 Inada and Tsuchiya reformed the contest as a five round series. At the following year for the following round, it was the introduction of the two car tsuiou battle, run in a single-elimination tournament format, a common tradition for touge races which would become popular with car enthusiasts.
Since the beginning, the series has spread from the United States to United Kingdom and Malaysia to New Zealand with an ever increasing fanbase all over the world. The series has since become a benchmark for all drifting series as its tsuiou format became widely adopted in drifting events throughout the world and is the most highly regarded of all series. The series also helped to turn not just its personnel, it also helped to turn many of its drivers into celebrities with appearances in TV shows and car magazines all over the world along with scale models and video game appearances for their cars. Also, it would be credited for the increase several-fold in tuning businesses specialising in drift set-ups.
Since the beginning, the series has spread from the United States to United Kingdom and Malaysia to New Zealand with an ever increasing fanbase all over the world. The series has since become a benchmark for all drifting series as its tsuiou format became widely adopted in drifting events throughout the world and is the most highly regarded of all series. The series also helped to turn not just its personnel, it also helped to turn many of its drivers into celebrities with appearances in TV shows and car magazines all over the world along with scale models and video game appearances for their cars. Also, it would be credited for the increase several-fold in tuning businesses specialising in drift set-ups.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Catch My Drift? the Japanese Street Craze of Drifting
A group of young Japanese cheer "Sugoi Yo" (yo, that's cool!) as the Nissan 350Z slides round the corner at a 45 degree slant, deep in the industrial sector of Yokohama - Japan's third largest city. As the smoke from the burning tyres clears, the spider web of black marks on the grey concrete surface become visible, proof of the popularity of this circuit. Welcome to the world of the drifters; a subculture of Japanese who meet to test their driving skills, show off their souped up hot rods and burn a lot of rubber.
The word 'Drifting' describes a cornering technique where the front wheels of the car point in the opposite direction to the turn, resulting in the car sliding round the corner almost at right angles to the turn - effectively a controlled skid. The practice has long been used in various forms of motor spot racing, such as rallying and early Grand Prix, but it was a young Japanese boy racer, Keiichi Tsuchiya who is credited with popularising drifting. Tsuchiya later went on to win several major motor sport titles and become a drifting legend despite having his race license suspended during his early career, due to his continuing participation in street racing.
Tsuchiya has now retired from both professional and street racing, but is revered internationally for his drifting skills, and his contribution to drifting was recently honoured by his cameo performance in the street racing movie "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift".
Today, drifting is still very popular with the Japanese and the DI Grand Prix is a major fixture in the motor sport calendar, but it is the culture of street drifting that has captured the imagination of many car fans across the world, and has for a large part been popularised through drifting videos that have been posted on the internet by drivers and their fans.
The flamboyant, crowd pleasing and rebellious nature of street Drifting has spawned several Japanese manga (comic books) that are based on the practice. Keiichi Tsuchiya is an editorial supervisor of the title "Initial D" which focuses on the world of drifting and Touge (pronounced Toe-gay). Touge literally means "pass" and has come to describe a form of racing in Japan, where drivers use narrow, winding mountain roads to test their driving skills against each other.
Street drifting has since spread around the world, and is popular in the USA, UK, Europe and the drifting craze has even reached the Middle East.
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