Ryen49
So you mean someone who can win a race by drifting? the only way I see someone winning a race with drift is by having way more power
and just smoking the other cars on the straight but,, If you compared the Cornering time. the grip drivers would be going faster. So that would mean the person isn't winning the race by drifting... Thier actually winning the race by the straight. Since they have all that power. Now if the person had the exact same power as the other guy and skill. Then maybe .. But there so many factors. Anyway grip is still faster then drifting.
I am a very loyal fan of Keiichi Tsuchiya.
Dori Dori means Drift King. Its a honorable name. As you may know Keiichi have a lot of sucess in drifting. He is a judge and a founder of D1 along with being the 3rd in charge of Initial D.
Without Keiichi Tsuchiya, there is a chance that Initial D would never had happen. Without Keiichi Tsuchiya the drifting world would be way different. Without Keiichi Tsuchiya there is a chance that there wouldn't be a D1 event.
Keiichi Tsuchiya is just that important to the Drifting world. Just like Jordon in basketball.
He also drifted a Nascar and a F1 car so I give him props for that also.
Pretty hard to do.
Most of us would agree that Keiichi Tsuchiya is probably the better drifter around the track for events like D1. Although hes not the best, hes up there. I bet there are drifters in D1 that can easily out drift Keiichi Tsuchiya. That is not why he is named the drift king.
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Drifting a car through a corner is not the fastest way around most turns any racecar driver will tell you strait out. This is where Keiichi Tsuchiya was crowned the Dori Kin or Drift King. In Option drift contests; style and technique are evaluated for exhibition values. Lately contests have been judged on racing lines and setup for multiple corner drifting, this is more difficult. Back in 1977 Keiichi began his racing career driving many different cars in amateur racing series events. Racing these underpowered cars was difficult but again a great learning experience.
Later Keiichi was picked up to drive the ADVAN sponsored AE86/1984 Corolla GT-S. During many races on a downhill corner he would drift the car and carry a better corner speed than his competitors. This technique is what made him the Drift King not as most believe that he was first in the drift scene. As he proved his style of driving his reputation grew. He is a racecar driver now and still takes to the mountains for illegal racing this also made his reputation grow. After videos featuring him and his persistent mountain running/Drifting his drivers license was suspended! For a professional racecar driver this was embarrassing. Unknowingly this worked to his advantage, his fan base and fame began to expand. You could say that he is a rebel of some sort or because he was just a person who went from nowhere to success out of determination with no racing background. He still has a bond for an old car that he grew up racing, drifting, and winning with, the Toyota AE86. You can see this by his video series dedicated to this car that is called AE86 Club. Toyota itself also felt that he is the person to represent the car most and presented him a restored AE86 through TRD."
Now, with that said, Keiichi carried a better cornering speed while drifting then his gripping competitors. Of course he was not doing an exhibition drift , so there probably wont be any smoke and the angle isn't completely sideways but he did race drift.
So its not impossible. Of course it was probably just one corner that he held the speed higher than his competitors.
Because Drift is slower than Grip 99 % of the time.