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drifting scene in the US? are there really touges done on the US (mainland, not Hawaii) like Initial D? or is it more casual ex. "your driving home from work one night and the streets are clear and you decide to feint drift 90 degrees on one really wide intersection? or do you guys keep it on the track (hopefully track but just curious).

btw, does anyone know any tracks in south florida that sponsers drifting on there tracks?
 
nop sorry i live in cold and frosty quebec.... only advantage of winter here is u can kinda drift cause of the icy streets :P

My dad pulled out a crazy one with our front wheel drive minvan (hehehe) he kinda just save the van from crashing cuz of the ice
thats all :rolleyes:
 
I'm pretty sure that wherever there are mountain communities, there will be mountain roads leading to them.

Here in San Diego, there's the Palomar Mountain road and the mountain road over to Julian. Those are pretty twisty, but I'd never DREAM of taking my car on those roads at speed. I'm not in the habit of driving in a way that endangers others (but I'm assuming that you're that way too).

To answer your question, yes I keep all of my "antics" on the track. It costs a fair bit of money to take on a real course, but there's also the autocross. Drifting (or trying to drift) there is fun - especially AFTER you've done your cone detail. It's hell on your time, but knocking cones out of their square is almost a game on it's own.

Moral of the story? Keep your testosterone on the track!
 
I've heard rumors of an underground drift scene in Seattle. Supposedly, they don't talk to anyone about drifting. No posts on forums or anything. The cars they use for drifting are not registered and garaged for the rest of the year. Very underground, impossible to penetrate. Don't know how true it is though, I've never seen them. Drifting isn't exactly the kind of thing you can do discreetly.
 
up here in vancouver we have about 2 local touge roads and some roads about an hours drive away from the city.
since there are soo many mountains north of us there alot of old logging roads, some of them paved, but rarely do you se guardrails.
2 of the 3 local mountain resorts have twisty roads leading up to them, and theyre pretty secluded, mostly hairpins, and the larger hairpins have parking lots in the apexes with a wide escape area on the side with concrete barriers, and its all the way up on the mountain, im sure in the summer a few people go up there and session the corners, ill just have to wait till this summer if i get my s13 then head up there and see for myself.
 
Well I live in north carolina and there are TONS of twisties here!Even on the way to school you can find a nice area to play around in.But it's only b/c I live kinda close to the mountains,Now there you find some pretty crazy s***!!!Be careful it's easy to get lost in the mountains.I even heard of some dude with a S14 being a really great drifter up in winston-salem.Like a sidewayz phantom or some stuff,scary huh?
 
Here in Southern California, we have a number of Touge hotspots. Closest to me is a quite short, narrow, touge, that is in the hills but flat, and has a corner succession that makes for some great battles. It's very obscure, though, and is mostly frequented only by locals.

Next is a very famous one, Mulholland Drive, which has been a legendary racing location since the 1950s. Due to its infamy, it's not as popular as it could be, but saturday nights, especially in the summer, still see a good number of battles. Plus, driving on the road late at night often yields an impromptu battle.

After that, there are a number of roads in orange county, and that's where the real racing happens.

Most famous is the now closed GMR. GMR, as it is known, was recently a huge racing spot. Some nights, there would be dozens, even hundreds of racers lined up, ready for the downhill. Inevitably, people started making mistakes. There were crashes, injuries, even deaths. These caused the underground location to become known, and the officials got wind of it. They closed it down.

Now, there are several other popular spots. However, I can't say anythign about them, and I have no idea who could be looking at this, and I don't want to jeapordize the security of the areas.
 

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