Drifting is more Shlammed than it looks
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I always just did it for fun. I wasn't interested in getting angle kits and doing mods specifically for drifting. I do feel it make me more comfortable sliding a car around because of it. If I had car I didn't care for, I'd probably do events if they were close and cheap.
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Looks like Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas @shuiend ?
I always just did it for fun. I wasn't interested in getting angle kits and doing mods specifically for drifting. I do feel it make me more comfortable sliding a car around because of it. If I had car I didn't care for, I'd probably do events if they were close and cheap.
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That is correct. I lived about 5 minutes away from ODS. A local group called Slideways would rent it for stupid cheap on week days. I would spend the $50 and skip college classes and work to go out and have fun. Learned a lot about driving. One of these day's I will get out to the new ODS in Fredricksburg.
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What car did you drive? Describe it. I can see if I can dig up some pics. I did 4 or 5 events with Slideways in 07-09. Yoshi helped me build my MS1 back in 2007. Then I would actively hang out at his place in fairfax 08-10 before I moved south.
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Drifting 101 day on ODS "skidpad" parking lot, I believe in 2007. Stock KA24E, K sport coilovers, open diff.
ODS paddock area, probably 07-08ish shortly after Drifting 101 with SR20DET swap complete.
I believe this was from one of the last official public Slidways events at ODS, late 08/early 09 maybe?
Drift Nirvana on newly paved Washington Circtuit (skidpad) at Summit Point. Should've been 2009.
A few other wheel configurations you may have seen it in.
Ultimate non-functional lowness.
Got a crack at driving Yoshi's E30 at one of the private ODS days following Slideways partnering with Drift Nirvana and no longer holding "official" events at ODS. Man I spent so many countless hours helping Yoshi wrench on that stupid car. That's younger me in the retarded sticker bombed helmet haha. This was in 2010.
OG Slideways crew ~early 2007
Following the demise of Slideways, a few of us in Richmond started Fresh Roots and began holding drift events at Shenandoah Raceway under the name Drift Valley. I got out of the scene in 2011 but Drift Valley carried on until 2015-2016 or so. It was was actually pretty awesome as we had quite a few guys who made it to D1 roll through the Slideways/Drift Nirvana/Drift Valley system: Chris Forsberg, Tony Angelo, Vaughn Gittin, Ryan Tuerck, Dan Savage, etc. They all came through after drifting got shut down at Cloverleaf Mall in Richmond in 2005 which is where the guys that started Drift Alliance all started in 2003ish. I don't know if there is much of a grassroots drifting scene around the Mid-Atlantic anymore, but I did see that Summit Point and Drift Nirvana brought back the 100 Drifters of December event this year, which is pretty cool.
Anyway, sorry for my tangent - back on topic haha. Like the OP in this thread said, drifting can be harder than it looks but it is actually quite a bit of fun. Although I was young and did some questionably stupid things to my car back then, that old 240SX taught me a lot.. Most importantly it gave me the passion for modifying, working on, and just generally enjoying cars that I have today. Of course I've now traded slaying tires for trying to keep the rubber as planted to the track as possible, but the car control learned from drifting has been an immense help in getting me through HPDE and on the road to competing at a quick pace despite an almost decade long hiatus from any sort of track driving.
Last edited by Quigs; 12-15-2018 at 10:55 PM.