Drifting on the public highway?!?!
Discussion
TonyRPH said:
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?
As far as I see it, we are all motorists who enjoy driving. I'm sure that people who enjoy having a weekend blat like to be left alone to pursue their hobby, despite breaking the speed limit and bringing excess noise to the countryside i.e. generally being anti social in the countryside.
Why not afford that respect to people who get their motoring kicks in a different way?
Edited by Shay HTFC on Tuesday 22 June 10:22
Shay HTFC said:
TonyRPH said:
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?
As far as I see it, we are all motorists who enjoy driving. I'm sure that people who enjoy having a weekend blat like to be left alone to pursue their hobby, despite breaking the speed limit and bringing excess noise to the countryside i.e. generally being anti social in the countryside.
Why not afford that respect to people who get their motoring kicks in a different way?
Edited by Shay HTFC on Tuesday 22 June 10:22
Shay HTFC said:
TonyRPH said:
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?
As far as I see it, we are all motorists who enjoy driving. I'm sure that people who enjoy having a weekend blat like to be left alone to pursue their hobby, despite breaking the speed limit and bringing excess noise to the countryside i.e. generally being anti social in the countryside.
Why not afford that respect to people who get their motoring kicks in a different way?
Edited by Shay HTFC on Tuesday 22 June 10:22
JB! said:
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.
Yeah seen lots of people drifting at cranfield. Used to go up there after MK Cruise back in the day when I was a bit younger. There was a white sierra cossie that always showed everyone else up by doing it properly. 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.
i have been following drifting for about 4yrs now, it started off as a laugh and good fun, paying for drift days at silverstone, bovingdon and other tracks which allowed it.
I used to organise drift days at bovingdon which was a real giggle. Kept it off the roads so all was ok.
Somewhere down the line 'the ring leaders' of the sport who knew better seemed to think that waiting for a drift day was to long so they organised a meet called 'streeto' which ment all the lads/ladies who were familiar with a certain website and the sport would contact each other and meet in lakeside/thurrock and literally cause mayhem and dangerous driving.
I quit as i saw this as nightmare and getting stopped a lot by police in my silvia turbo was hassle also insurance companies clicked on to 'welded diffs' and types of cars so you get stung a bit more so as they assume your a drifter.
I have seen some serious illegal drifting, it might sound fun but its so so dangerous with all the other road users and by standers. We are talking up to 100mph drifts. No nice when it goes wrong.
Keep it to the track i say.
I used to organise drift days at bovingdon which was a real giggle. Kept it off the roads so all was ok.
Somewhere down the line 'the ring leaders' of the sport who knew better seemed to think that waiting for a drift day was to long so they organised a meet called 'streeto' which ment all the lads/ladies who were familiar with a certain website and the sport would contact each other and meet in lakeside/thurrock and literally cause mayhem and dangerous driving.
I quit as i saw this as nightmare and getting stopped a lot by police in my silvia turbo was hassle also insurance companies clicked on to 'welded diffs' and types of cars so you get stung a bit more so as they assume your a drifter.
I have seen some serious illegal drifting, it might sound fun but its so so dangerous with all the other road users and by standers. We are talking up to 100mph drifts. No nice when it goes wrong.
Keep it to the track i say.
saladdodger said:
i have been following drifting for about 4yrs now, it started off as a laugh and good fun, paying for drift days at silverstone, bovingdon and other tracks which allowed it.
I used to organise drift days at bovingdon which was a real giggle. Kept it off the roads so all was ok.
Somewhere down the line 'the ring leaders' of the sport who knew better seemed to think that waiting for a drift day was to long so they organised a meet called 'streeto' which ment all the lads/ladies who were familiar with a certain website and the sport would contact each other and meet in lakeside/thurrock and literally cause mayhem and dangerous driving.
I quit as i saw this as nightmare and getting stopped a lot by police in my silvia turbo was hassle also insurance companies clicked on to 'welded diffs' and types of cars so you get stung a bit more so as they assume your a drifter.
I have seen some serious illegal drifting, it might sound fun but its so so dangerous with all the other road users and by standers. We are talking up to 100mph drifts. No nice when it goes wrong.
Keep it to the track i say.
Well said sir.I used to organise drift days at bovingdon which was a real giggle. Kept it off the roads so all was ok.
Somewhere down the line 'the ring leaders' of the sport who knew better seemed to think that waiting for a drift day was to long so they organised a meet called 'streeto' which ment all the lads/ladies who were familiar with a certain website and the sport would contact each other and meet in lakeside/thurrock and literally cause mayhem and dangerous driving.
I quit as i saw this as nightmare and getting stopped a lot by police in my silvia turbo was hassle also insurance companies clicked on to 'welded diffs' and types of cars so you get stung a bit more so as they assume your a drifter.
I have seen some serious illegal drifting, it might sound fun but its so so dangerous with all the other road users and by standers. We are talking up to 100mph drifts. No nice when it goes wrong.
Keep it to the track i say.
It seems even dealers doing promo videos are guilty of it...
:ahem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZF4OF3Ay4 about 1m15s in.
I have to say, when I first saw this video I thought they were cutting it a bit close to the wire, and I'm not sure the bloke outside the pub in the video is appreciative or "WTF?".
:ahem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZF4OF3Ay4 about 1m15s in.
I have to say, when I first saw this video I thought they were cutting it a bit close to the wire, and I'm not sure the bloke outside the pub in the video is appreciative or "WTF?".
the-gofer said:
It seems even dealers doing promo videos are guilty of it...
:ahem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZF4OF3Ay4 about 1m15s in.
I have to say, when I first saw this video I thought they were cutting it a bit close to the wire, and I'm not sure the bloke outside the pub in the video is appreciative or "WTF?".
Naughty, it doesnt take much to crash in a built up area like that.:ahem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZF4OF3Ay4 about 1m15s in.
I have to say, when I first saw this video I thought they were cutting it a bit close to the wire, and I'm not sure the bloke outside the pub in the video is appreciative or "WTF?".
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