Drifting on the public highway?!?!

[AdamBomb]

So, drifting is growing in popularity in my local town, I have clocked a few quite tastefully modded rwd jap machines around and about, a few sporting some bumper damage.

Now, they have to be practicing somewhere & I assumed they would be doing this on the bypass that circles the town, dual carraige ways with large roundabouts etc - and I guess if this was late night with little or no traffic - although not in any way legal / risk free I could understand the logic...

Oh no, that's not the choosen location... Walking to the boozer on Friday night a (very clean, stripped and caged sourer) came up the hill and around a corner towards us in full on drift mode - big drift angle - turbo sucking and sneezing as he feathered the throttle.

I have to admit I was impressed by the car control but Jeezus Christ that's a bloody stupid place to be playing those games.

Is this a nationwide trend? Anyone else seen similer in a town / city centre??

[FraserLFA]

Apart from Round-a-bouts, in Norwich the only thing you could drift around is John Lewis (Big sweeping corner) where there's a couple of bumps been put in so that's not an option.

I am surprised i don't see more people doing it.

[redgriff500]

Young men + fast cars = stupid driving

Nothing new there.

[ben10]

Around me you get them doing it on the motorway roundabout... Watch for the following police car



Not my video BTW

[davepoth]

Diesel focus though? and about 8 years old too? That's really going to keep up...

[bazking69]

There is a massive roundabout that I go over on the way to and from work everyday. It is coated in so many black stripes you can barely see the lines in some places. By all accounts the place is like an underground drift club at the weekends!

I can see why it's a popular spot. It probably takes about 30 seconds to drive around in total and has excellent visability of all the exits/junctions. Plus it is virtually in the middle of nowhere once the rush hour traffic has gone.

[ben10]

Dont think plod realized he was drifting to be honest...im guessing from the noise he thought he was pushing it but not drifting.

These guys race around there every weekend so plod turns up frequently

[muffinmenace]

davepoth said:

Diesel focus though? and about 8 years old too? That's really going to keep up...

Depends on the driver

[garethj]

Second roundabout on the industrial estate where I work is good, at about 7am. It's a good start to the day. I'm one of the first into work so it's empty for miles around.

Don't do it when the boss is coming in early and you're on the second lap. Just hypothetically, like

[liner33]

Does seems to be the latest craze popular in Swindon by all accounts

[v8will]

Plenty of donuts over here, the vast majority of junctions have copious rubber and it's not unusual to see tyre marks on the middle of dual carriage ways.

[Thudd]

liner33 said:

Does seems to be the latest craze popular in Swindon by all accounts

If they tried to drift the magic roundabout, they'd probably get lost.

[JB!]

its called "streeto" or something.

not very popular with organized drifters...

cranfield is a mecca for ghetto drifting and the "dogbone" roundabout under the a5 at caldecotte... but being MK, any quiet roundabout/industrial estate will have black lines everywhere on a monday morning. IMHO the police should close off some roads out of the way and let people get on with it.

[Dr G]

Mini roundabout outside the Ace?

[JB!]

Dr G said:

Mini roundabout outside the Ace?

i wonder how many people have met the high kerbs there?

[cmackay81]

OP: stop being such a wuss

[Jayho]

There's a few roundabouts around which people have a little tail out, and a couple of car parks... Never seen it done intentionally in the town though... Residential places seem to be pretty free of "drift king Yo's!" so i guess they have a little bit more sense up here... TBH, most of the farmer boys around here are still stuck up there FWD French hatches, very few people with proper RWD cars around these areas... Actually saw a couple of chavs laughing at a guy in his MX-5 shouting hairdresser ect... from there Corsa... I had to laugh at their feeble attempt at mocking someone in a far superior car...

[Ved]

There's a big difference between getting the arse out on a roundabout on a blat out and purposely drifting around public roundabouts. If you want to do this then book something through driftworks and leave it on a track.

If you're looking to do similar things on blind roundabouts with high powered cars like the video posted above then you need locking up.

Edited by Ved on Monday 21st June 10:42

[jimpson]

Used to be a scene in East London that didn't get going until 2am - but then all the dicks started to show up and brought along the attention of the Police

[Jonny671]

Jayho said:

There's a few roundabouts around which people have a little tail out, and a couple of car parks... Never seen it done intentionally in the town though... Residential places seem to be pretty free of "drift king Yo's!" so i guess they have a little bit more sense up here... TBH, most of the farmer boys around here are still stuck up there FWD French hatches, very few people with proper RWD cars around these areas... Actually saw a couple of chavs laughing at a guy in his MX-5 shouting hairdresser ect... from there Corsa... I had to laugh at their feeble attempt at mocking someone in a far superior car...

The MX5 is very capable at getting arse out, even in the dry with sticky Parada2's on.. Though I don't do it at all, I can feel when its about to step out.. I do admit I've done it once or twice on an empty round-a-bout, pushed it abit further than normal and held it around.

Its fun but can go easily wrong.

Apparenly Slyfield Green (Industrial Estate) around here is about 3/4 mile long, and the chavs go drag racing down there. My brother told me last night there were a few Cosworths etc so maybe its not just chavs..