Drift track at home: Time for Tea
Man with most understanding wife/neighbours in the world does what we're all thinking
The dream of building a full-sized race circuit in the garden of an enormous fantasy pad is probably common to just about every PHer old enough to buy a lottery ticket. But even with the means and the space, who would actually ever see it through (or win over a planning commitee).
Unless you've had the foresight to move to New Zealand, of course. And have equipped yourself with an extremely forgiving other half and the kind of neighbours that not only don't mind, but actually go to the trouble of helping you with construction. In that perfect storm, you'd almost be obliged to go ahead.
Certainly that's what Takeshi Teruya - a 37-year-old mechanic from Japan who now lives in NZ - thought when the idea of laying a track in his modest plot occured to him. Yes, it's just a simple loop with a few squiggles thrown in, but that's fine when all you're interested in doing is going sideways in your heavily modified Nissan Skyline 370GT.
The completed circuit is 130-metres long, and was made using recycled asphalt that our hero laid himself. This was essential to keep costs down - he spent $16,000 (just under £8,500) building the circuit, which significantly under the $40,000 quoted to him. Now he lives his dream by drifting everyday and boy does he look happy. His wife? Not so much. But you can't have everything. Apparently.
Got to hand it to him though. I wish I could do that, but here in London, my chances of pulling that off would be about zero.
It’s a no from my wife. Seems she hasn’t forgotten the time my son drove his grass track mini through our hedge.
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