Drifting on the public highway?!?!
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Jonny671 said:
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..
I remember giving my friend a lift once, and he started shouting at me and giving me into trouble for "drifting"... lol i had to slowly explain to him that we were in a FWD car which isnt actually capable of doing a "proper drift" and what he had actually just experienced was a little bit of "lift off oversteer"... as we were understeering at a bend and had plenty of room to correct it in the manner.
Jayho said:
Jonny671 said:
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..
I remember giving my friend a lift once, and he started shouting at me and giving me into trouble for "drifting"... lol i had to slowly explain to him that we were in a FWD car which isnt actually capable of doing a "proper drift" and what he had actually just experienced was a little bit of "lift off oversteer"... as we were understeering at a bend and had plenty of room to correct it in the manner.
I'm not that bothered what he gets up to, if his mate is alright with being down there and risk being done by the Police then they can get on with it
Its like when they used to do 'racing' down at Ladymead Retail Park in town, that did used to be quite good to go and watch, some idiots, some very nice cars.
cmackay81 said:
OP: stop being such a wuss
If you saw the hill/blind corner with multiple roads joining it... I'm sure you too would think it was a pretty stupid place to be drifting - I don't really care what they get up to on the bypass - in fact, if I had a RWD car I might be tempted to have a little go myself... but in a town / residential environment it could so easily go very badly wrong - it certainly made me jump to the inside of the kerb.FraserLFA said:
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.
Theres plenty of other places you could "drift" in Norwich other than bang in the city centre..I am surprised i don't see more people doing it.
Theres a good car park on the industrial estate I work on. Totally empty when I'm in early so is good for a few laps on the way in to work. I'm a bit crap at drifting though, although tbh, unless it's damp, the beemer doesn't have the power to hold a slide so it either ends up with a little flick or out of control madness... Not the sort of thing I want happening on the road.
Deluded said:
Theres a good car park on the industrial estate I work on. Totally empty when I'm in early so is good for a few laps on the way in to work. I'm a bit crap at drifting though, although tbh, unless it's damp, the beemer doesn't have the power to hold a slide so it either ends up with a little flick or out of control madness... Not the sort of thing I want happening on the road.
You dont actually need all that much power to get a good drift going... MX5's aren't that fast and still manage, got a friend who's got a Suzuki Cappuccino which does the job... One which really got me was my friends Volvo (before he put a 1.8l Clio lump in) who managed to hold good sideways action for very impressive times!AdamBomb said:
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??
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??
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TonyRPH said:
Sadly this kind of activity does no favours for the enthusiast motoring community.
... and the people driving the cars in question learn a little of what they're capable on the road, perfect it on the track and become the motoring heroes of tomorrow.No need to be so blinkered, next thing you'll be spouting "speed kills"
GT Kodiak said:
TonyRPH said:
Sadly this kind of activity does no favours for the enthusiast motoring community.
... and the people driving the cars in question learn a little of what they're capable on the road, perfect it on the track and become the motoring heroes of tomorrow.No need to be so blinkered, next thing you'll be spouting "speed kills"
I'm just an advocate of using the roads in a sensible manner. What's so wrong with that?
Tracks are for drifting / racing, not the public roads.
It's not the people who drift / speed /(insert your activity here) that cause the accidents - it's the numbskulls who don't see them, or fail to anticipate their speed that is the problem.
TonyRPH said:
GT Kodiak said:
TonyRPH said:
Sadly this kind of activity does no favours for the enthusiast motoring community.
... and the people driving the cars in question learn a little of what they're capable on the road, perfect it on the track and become the motoring heroes of tomorrow.No need to be so blinkered, next thing you'll be spouting "speed kills"
I'm just an advocate of using the roads in a sensible manner. What's so wrong with that?
Tracks are for drifting / racing, not the public roads.
It's not the people who drift / speed /(insert your activity here) that cause the accidents - it's the numbskulls who don't see them, or fail to anticipate their speed that is the problem.
TonyRPH said:
GT Kodiak said:
TonyRPH said:
Sadly this kind of activity does no favours for the enthusiast motoring community.
... and the people driving the cars in question learn a little of what they're capable on the road, perfect it on the track and become the motoring heroes of tomorrow.No need to be so blinkered, next thing you'll be spouting "speed kills"
I'm just an advocate of using the roads in a sensible manner. What's so wrong with that?
Tracks are for drifting / racing, not the public roads.
It's not the people who drift / speed /(insert your activity here) that cause the accidents - it's the numbskulls who don't see them, or fail to anticipate their speed that is the problem.
These guys are doing it at night with no one else around, doing their equivalent of a Sunday hoon. They are just youngsters playing with automobiles as I'm sure a lot of members here did when they were kids, to the dismay of adults at the time.
Shay HTFC said:
* removed previous quotes for brevity.
What happens when some average road user decides that you racing along a NSL road at 80 is not "using the roads in a sensible manner".
These guys are doing it at night with no one else around, doing their equivalent of a Sunday hoon. They are just youngsters playing with automobiles as I'm sure a lot of members here did when they were kids, to the dismay of adults at the time.
Trouble is, who (outside of the Bib - and even the Bib's judgment is skewed sometimes) has the right to judge another persons driving? Everybody makes mistakes - it's just the severity of those mistakes that varies according to driver skill...What happens when some average road user decides that you racing along a NSL road at 80 is not "using the roads in a sensible manner".
These guys are doing it at night with no one else around, doing their equivalent of a Sunday hoon. They are just youngsters playing with automobiles as I'm sure a lot of members here did when they were kids, to the dismay of adults at the time.
And yes - maybe some of us did similar things when we were young - but that doesn't make it right does it?
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