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Major bmx drifting through busy roads...
Cant quite work out where it is though...
http://www.b0rd.com/page.php?id=63
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Quote: | Well indeed - but rallying is supposed to be a sport after all, conducted by professionals, in (reasonably) controlled conditions. | I agree, I think rallying is a much more legitimate sport than, say, NASCAR. Put a NASCAR driver in a rally car, and a rally driver in a NASCAR race and in an instant you'll have one wrecked rally car and one incredibly bored rally driver. OK OK my apologies to NASCAR fans.
When I was talking about drifting, I was thinking of the more recent onset of tarmac (or street) based drifting popularized by Japan.
Quote: | Originally Posted by 46Lover Drifting is so general that it can be defined as any type of "controlled slide." ...today, what you're referring to is called "4-wheel drift" or zero-countersteer and can't be done on such a long, wide turn unless you're a professional or you're stupid - or if you're in an all-wheel drive car... and stupid. | Wasn't thinking about rallying since the video was taken on the street. Same principle, tho - controlled sliding, but I suppose you could say track drifting is trying to slide on a sticky surface "for show," while rally driving is trying to grip on a slippery surface "for go." I have tremendous respect for any driver who can drive at 105% of their tires' potential...
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Quote: | I agree, I think rallying is a much more legitimate sport than, say, NASCAR. Put a NASCAR driver in a rally car, and a rally driver in a NASCAR race and in an instant you'll have one wrecked rally car and one incredibly bored rally driver. OK OK my apologies to NASCAR fans. | Quite often rally drivers from the WRC scene get put into F1 cars, and vice versa. The F1 drivers are often taken aback by basic stuff like the fast-changing scenery of rallying and the fact that going sideways actually helps (normally, it's anathaema). And yeah, I guess once they get over the kick out of the G-force, rally drivers don't get much out of going real fast in a straight line  .
I was introduced to the concept of, and developerd a passion for, RWD after watching some rally stages in the mid-80s. Seeing Hannu Mikkola and Tony Pond in graceful action - especially Mikkola - was just as engaging as watching any other sport. Bit of a diversion, but that was drifting escalated to an art form
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Watch the race of champions on Speed Channel. It will settle all of these disputes. I think that Rally drivers are the most skilled though. The amount of car control is rediculous.
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