Define "Drift God"

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The man can drift no handed... takumi's never even done that.. of course its anime.. and he's the only drift got i can think of.
 
Wait wait....there is a possibility that drifting is better than grip because......what if the stage consist of many tight corners.....think about it
 
Yeah. Example: The course he raced Bunta's rival's son in in the MR2. That had tons of hairpins. Seemed like every other turn was a hairpin :D

NK4E, if I was following the seires and not the manga (which I am since I checked Suncoast today and they didn't have any manga issues in stock past the black R32) would that be the race with the Evo3? The one where, afterwards, he got that tight 'Touring A' engine? If it was, well, I don't exactly call it a 'crash'. If it wasnt, correct me :D
 
DarkAzN
Wait wait....there is a possibility that drifting is better than grip because......what if the stage consist of many tight corners.....think about it
This thread has nothing to do with drifting being faster. Aslo in Irhoakza most of the people thier still grip drive it. Its pretty dangerous.
 
Victor Vance
Yeah. Example: The course he raced Bunta's rival's son in in the MR2. That had tons of hairpins. Seemed like every other turn was a hairpin :D

NK4E, if I was following the seires and not the manga (which I am since I checked Suncoast today and they didn't have any manga issues in stock past the black R32) would that be the race with the Evo3? The one where, afterwards, he got that tight 'Touring A' engine? If it was, well, I don't exactly call it a 'crash'. If it wasnt, correct me :D

Let's not forget that Initial D is fictional. Cool and fun to watch, but still fictional.
 
( is that just a crazy 4a-ge with 200 hp )

to define "DRIFT GOD" just define the word god.

Keiichi Tsuchiya is not a king its just a word put on a DVD (best Motoring - Drift Bible)
 
the group A engine the Trueno uses isnt turbocharged either its still NA
and 11,000 RPM! DAMMM!!!! THas so fake lol and at 250 hp.....
i heard he got that name when he started to drift in the jgtc in his AE86 to "improve his lap times" this wowed people so then they started calling him "Dori King" and stuck since then...
 
First off, the engine is a TRD engine that revs around 10,000rpms, You can actually get one if you wanted. Second Keiichi Tysuchiya is known as the drift king because he drifted like the last 6 turns of a track in a race and own, This isn't saying drifting is faster. He kinda just incoprtaes small drift angles in his racing style. They aslo gave him that name because of how good he drifts. It has nothing to do with his Drift bible dvd, They mention him as the drift king in like all the other video's he does.
 
Victor Vance
Nothing I said wasn't referred to at least once in the series. :)

Yeah, I know. But what I was saying is that Initial D is an anime/manga. So you can't automatically take everything right out of that and apply it to real life. That's all.
 
I don't think there's room for 2 'Drift Gods' :D

Silent D: It's 240, I think. Incredible huh 240hp@11,000rpm from a 20-valve 1.6 litre straight-four.

As for Bunta's STi, judging from the intro from Fourth Stage, it's the old Coupe, which here in the US the best Impreza Coupe we got was the RS :irked:

2 Imprezas I wish we got: The STi Coupe, the STi Wagon, I dunno, I just think it looks cooler as a Sportwagon :sly:
 
Victor Vance
Yeah. Example: The course he raced Bunta's rival's son in in the MR2. That had tons of hairpins. Seemed like every other turn was a hairpin :D

NK4E, if I was following the seires and not the manga (which I am since I checked Suncoast today and they didn't have any manga issues in stock past the black R32) would that be the race with the Evo3? The one where, afterwards, he got that tight 'Touring A' engine? If it was, well, I don't exactly call it a 'crash'. If it wasnt, correct me :D
yes it is, and u need to check other places because i got 1-12 vols of initial d and the only lost takumi had was with the evo3
 
Eff it. I got eps one, the dub music is horrible. I ain't payin $20 a DVD for that.

I'll just rely on my trusty BitTorrent. Without that, I'd have to wait a lot longer before watching Fourth Stage.

A little questionaire on Bunta's 'no-hands' drift. I saw those last 6 eps, and there he was, but, from what I could tell, he still used his hands to initiate the drift. How can you call it no hands if he's using his hands in part of the drift? Besides, that was a performance :scared: :D

What Bunta really can do we have yet to find out ;)
 
ExBrock

I don't know how many people will agree with this next statement, but I really do feel that bustwave succeeds CudaMan in the overall-skill department by quite a large margin.

Just read this thread for the first time. Uhm I would have to disagree with that statement. IMHO Cudaman surpasses LOTS OF us, including me. I think he is one of the best "wheel" drifters. I could never go into that category. I am a "analog" drifter. Some people say im good, but i think as myself as a so-so drifter.
 
bustwave.
Just read this thread for the first time. Uhm I would have to disagree with that statement. IMHO Cudaman surpasses LOTS OF us, including me. I think he is one of the best "wheel" drifters. I could never go into that category. I am a "analog" drifter. Some people say im good, but i think as myself as a so-so drifter.
i agree with you, bustwave
 
I really missed Cudaman's drifts, I still think his drifts are a real joy to watch, so far, the one that falls to the 2nd place would be silviadrifter :)

and talk about Twin Drifts, Divine_Monk and Divine_Sensei's drift video is still the best twin drift vid out there I've ever seen :D
 
DarkAzN
There could be a drifter, that could be better than a grip

Sure, if that grip driver is slow then I agree with you. but all things being equal, grip is fundamentally faster the drift. Jsut like FR is fundamentally a more stable drivetrain then FF. That doesn't mean a FF will never beat a FR, it just means that when you get to the bottom of it that it's a more stable platform. I think the same thing can be said for grip vs drift.

I'm sure someone has made that comment before judging by all the "grip vs drift" threads I've seen.
 
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.

"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 driver’s 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.
 
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