http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dez2-...eature=related

 

a very slow and ordinary drift in the wet, im a bit confused why a thread was started, lol

 

show us a drift you like?

 

That's not drifting, that's skidding

 

take your pick...

THIS video from 1min 5 pretty much beats all...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsTBEXlu_Fg

some uk and irish stuff...

http://www.vimeo.com/1522564

http://www.vimeo.com/1463474

some amazing stuff on proper roads...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2qLW3wU2Ug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs6qD7Gt3qw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5LFeHxElWE

and so on...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNM70xHDxkU

still cheers me up

 

Dont say that to him, look what you've started now.

 

fuck me

 

fook some of that drifiting involves a lot of skill and bollocks

 

that's amazing

 

this ones years old but i still like it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCYiJYy03S0

 

not a bad thread after all then a?

 

this is the best marco martin in wrc focus


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucXA1V6OxrA

 

only because a few of us put good ones up to make up for your shit vid

 

that was AWESOME

 

considering they have only ever driven the road once at normal speed

 

heres a shit vid, me doing something quick and plain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9T8VRZ8QrQ



would love to own another one!! had plenty of fun in that

 

Still this at 2:24.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0cW6GDd3I

Not because it's the best drift, but just the circumstances make it so outrageous!

 

I like the ones by Paul Howard, Buttsy, and Dan Joyce,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wapp9HRKywY

and this one i filmed of Paul Howard,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1U_Y_tBgJ0

 

Nuts! totally Nuts!

 

i was trying to think of the blokes name so i could search for this clip but... his magic Evo computers doing all the driving

 

Lol, isnt that Desras car?

 

Think its one he gave her/she bought. Cant emeber off hand. He was going wild in it that night lol.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBfOuP7-7ss

 

settle petal

 

Tragic drifting accident. Not nice
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NbE_4lfVqhk

 

How do they score the cars in the drifting competitions? I've always wondered how it works?

 

now thats fooking madness

 

As far as i know they give points for three different areas of the drift, Speed, Line and Angle...

Not quite sure what the score points are out of to be honest...

Ginge

 

ignore the idiot screaming and i think this is a good clip..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU05MjhRIbs

 

Not really, well, sort of.

In qualifying, which is solo runs, in the breifing the judges will tell the competitors what they are looking for, but this is mostly what clipping points they want the cars to hit, ie need the front of the car to be as close to the inside of whatever part as possible. There will normally be 3 or so of them in the course.
Thats the most important part, aside from not ever straightening out, or understeering, which will totally destroy your scores.
Aside from that its about how fast you are going compared to the rest, how early before the first corner you initiate the drift.
Of course smoke and angle is part of it too, though in a way thats a much lesser thing as if you doing the other things well that just happens anyhow.
This is scored out of 100.

The top 16 (usually, ive seen top 32s before) go in to the twin drift battles, which are scored totally different, basically its a 1on1 race, but sideways, so things usually speed up.
Its 3 runs, a practice run, 1 run when the opposing car is leading, another run when you are leading. The object really is if you're in front to pull away from the chase car, the following car should try to keep as close or even overtake the lead car. All while drifting of course.
Its scored out of 10, ie 5-5, 8-2, 10-0, etc.
If you spin out or crash, 10-0 to the other person.
If you are just generally shit, straighten out, or understeer, the other person will win by a fair amount.
If the other car either massivley pulls away from you or overtakes you, its usually 8-2 or even 9-1.
If you are in front and are clearly holding up the other car, he will have the advantage, etc etc.
Clipping points are ignored for this, the cars just take whatever lines they want to win.
Smoke, angle, and how early the drift was initiated before the first corner is taken in to account, but not as much, so if it was too close to call in other ways, but one car had much better of these, theyd get the advantage.

Very hard to explain, but after watching it a while you get used to it easy, I cant explain it but I can predict pretty accuratly exactly what scores the judges will give every time.

 

If you wanna see some decent drifting check out these guys.

www.driftworks.com Just search driftworks in youtube for loads of vids

I am sure Phil Morrison was European drift champion last year, check out the S15 they have just built, this car is awesome.

 

On the cover of the latest redline too, out today, mega mega detailed feature too, look...

 

The scoring is really simple to pick up when your at an event. The even explained it really well at JDM all stars in Wembly.

 

It was easy at Wembley as JDM Allstars is done by good people and good comentators, Maurice is quality.

But at EDC it would be easy for someone who had no idea what was happening when he arrived to go home just as confused.