Formula D Camaro

[TheRoaringEagle]

i've never gotten into drifting but I have seen some good clips of some nissans drifting nicely. and when i heard of the formula D camaro i got excited - cause you know, it's a camaro burning rubber, but then i saw clips of it actually drifting and... it doesn't drift well. or as well as the smaller nissans. it could be the driver or the car, i don't really care which, i was/am just really disappointed. just wondering if anyone else saw these clips of the falken-sponsored formula d camaro and also felt a lacking.

[vanzuuk1]

I saw the clips and thought it drifted well, I liked it. Not to sound like al gore but when drifting first started I thought it would be cool to get a camaro involved to bring in the hot rod crowd.

[toxicz28]

Not to sound like al gore....

Didn't he invent drifting right after the internet???

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Right after sliced bread actually, way before the interweb. Gore was drifting way back when.

[vanzuuk1]

We ALL invented drifting when we were teenagers, hanging out in a parking lot sliding around in the snow.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

We ALL invented drifting when we were teenagers, hanging out in a parking lot sliding around in the snow.

I think you nailed it right here. There were probably kids in the 20s and 30s drifting. I do not understand the "sport" myself, but to each his own. It's fun to do, but the idea of it as a competition doesn't make sense to me.

[Damn True]

i've never gotten into drifting but I have seen some good clips of some nissans drifting nicely. and when i heard of the formula D camaro i got excited - cause you know, it's a camaro burning rubber, but then i saw clips of it actually drifting and... it doesn't drift well. or as well as the smaller nissans. it could be the driver or the car, i don't really care which, i was/am just really disappointed. just wondering if anyone else saw these clips of the falken-sponsored formula d camaro and also felt a lacking.

Dude....it's drifting.

[TheRoaringEagle]

yeah i know it's drifting. just wondering if anyone else was disappointed in the clips of the falken camaro like i was.

[RobM]

i believe red necks invented drifting

[TheRoaringEagle]

i believe that the import tuners invented drifting. only because they worked hard to organize it into events and publicized it in their magazines first.

[Damn True]

There is a reason why the handbrake is known as a "bootleggers brake".

[RobM]

as usual i'm with damn true.

[vanzuuk1]

Tazio Nuvolari invented drifting. Now I know I have lost you.

[vanzuuk1]

Actually , the first race driver to discover drifting probably died a fiery death, then Nuvolari perfected drifting.

[TheRoaringEagle]

well you can aregue who first 'drifted', horse buggies may have done it first, i was just pointing out that the 'sport' of drifting... competition was/is created by the current generation because of their organizing of it. plus competition drifting a lot different than teenagers sliding around in the snow or kids in the 20's and 30's loosing traction for brief seconds on a turn.

i wouldn't try and drift my camaro as crazy as some silvia do in competition because i'm poor but i think it'd be a fun sport and it definetely takes skill to accomplish.

[6'9"Witha69]

Drifting FWDs was invented cause they were tired of using Fast Food Trays under the back wheels!!

[TheRoaringEagle]

import cars i'm talking about are them nissan 180sxs, datsun 240zs, supras, skylines and all those other badass rwd monsters. i'm not talking honda civics.