Wednesday 9th February 2011

Video: How To Make Drifting An RC Car Look Easy

Koreans get stuck in to some down-sized drifting

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There's something about miniaturized model cars, trains and planes that gets otherwise sane, mature grown-ups all over-excited. Let's call it the Scalextric gene (though it could just as easily be called the Hornby gene).

And it's that particular strand of genetic material that we must blame for causing us to post this video of radio-controlled cars doing the slidey thing at the 2010 Korea RC Street Drift Challenge.

Now, we don't normally cover the 'drifting scene, yo' here on PH (though we are partial to a slide or two), but this video features some awesome scaled-down driving, and the course itself features some truly impressive attention to detail.

Not sure about that hip-hop soundtrack, though...

 

 

 

[mylesmcd]

Interesting....until the action figure dolls were spotted.

[anonymous-user]

That's pretty damn cool. I used to have one of those small Xmods cars with drift tyres on. Was never quite this good though....

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

That's so cool! I wonder if the surface is low grip stuff or the little tyres made out of something slippy?

[Agoogy]

Very very impressive...loved the parking

[Ari]

Going to try that parking technique at Tescos later.

How hard can it be..?

[Atrophy]

mylesmcd said:

Interesting....until the action figure dolls were spotted.

They are called spectators.

Anyway....nice drifting, shame there is no tyre smoke!!

[Daaaveee]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

That's so cool! I wonder if the surface is low grip stuff or the little tyres made out of something slippy?

Hard plastic tyres Great track, some serious effort put into that.

[anonymous-user]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

That's so cool! I wonder if the surface is low grip stuff or the little tyres made out of something slippy?

They're usually a slippy plastic tyre. But it's probably a low grip surface as well for them to slide that well.

[wackojacko]

Rc cars rule , can't quite get my T-maxx to drift in as controlled fashion :hehe

[M666 EVO]

Only in Korea! Brilliant!

[MogulBoy]

xlnt!

[Barry Ashcroft]

Wow very impressive

[Stew2000]

You didn't have to copy the link Jalopnik used a few days ago. there is alot more vids on youtube.

[dlc74]

LOVE IT!

OK so thats my son's new 'sport' when he grows up a bit! I'll convert the top end of my garden to an urban drift scene.

Tamiya MX5 as the novice vehicle of choice me thinks.

Good find PH!

[Johnpidge]

Ari said:

Going to try that parking technique at Tescos later.

How hard can it be..?

[Richard-G]

awesome,

the song, i heard the lyrics 'everybody know who i are'

our language is forever doomed

[Mini1275]

Brilliant!




Off to search eBay for RC drift cars.

[MrKipling43]

That is one of the geekiest things I've ever seen. I love it.

I tried doing... sorry, failed to do that on snow with my RC car. Crazy difficult.

[twiglove]

Very impressive, Although saw this ages ago

...Shouldn't this belong in the scale models section

[Farrant]

That was brilliant! Were they just normal rc cars with slippy tyres on?