Whos your fav drifter and why???

Tsuchiya · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:23 am Post subject: Whos your fav drifter and why???

I have too many favourites. Alot of drivers are so skilled and talented that I admire their car control and ability to mold their drift style into their personality.
1) Keiichi Tsuchiya - after seeing so many touge showdowns, Dk caught my admiration when he would speak while hammering a car he doesn't know. As well as he is one of the few drifters that don't let go of the steering wheel, his hands move so quickly it looks as if he's flailing about madly. Also, he has fun and enjoys the sessions.
2) Manabu Orido - he's just so cool and mellow. His style is so laid back and relaxed that u can't tell he's drifting at all. And his personal Supra...OMG!!!
3) Nobuteru Taniguchi - at the start i thought NOB was overestimated. But being able to switch between grip racing for such a high level sport like time-attack, and then taking HKS' D1 car an creating voluminous clouds of acrid rubber...that requires real marbles.
4) Yasuyuki Kazama - the crazy SOB of the sliding sport. Kazama's throttle control and steering inputs are so bloody fast that u don't realize unless u rewind and slow the tape. I admire him for coming through the ranks as an ae86 mechanic to almost drifting into bankruptcy and then onto being the pilot of an S15 D1 car.
5) Youichi Imamaru & Katsuhiro Ueo - the original ae86 street thugs. Always stuck to the underpowered corolla as their personal means of 'fling' and with it improved their abilities

This is just a few that I can remember offhand

Death-Row · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

Tsuchiya,i never really got to know the names of the others but i would have to say orido and tsuchiya are the top 2 for me but ive seen some others eh, just dont know their names Embarassed

Death-Row · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject:

Tsuchiya,btw, always wanted to know. do you drift? what car you got? Very Happy

the infamous ae86 corolla...haven't had a chance to drift becuz of some issues tho but banzai has some pics of it in action

FCDRIFTER · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

SUENAGA...he may not be one of the most beautiful drifters but he has two main things
SPEEED
RX7...end of discussion

Death-Row · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject:

FCDRIFTER, Laughing

you got any youtube links with him drifting? maybe i saw him already in action but cant remember the name.

FCDRIFTER · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:56 am Post subject:

yeah take a look SUENAGA vs NOMURA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UVKhFQ0hsw

FCDRIFTER · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:59 am Post subject:

NOMURA won but look at their speeds

Death-Row · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:23 am Post subject:

FCDRIFTER,very nice drifting Very Happy

ive seen em drift b4, they really good. just cant really remember names Embarassed

FCDRIFTER · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:55 am Post subject:

here's another

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT6gWirT9Qg

Death-Row · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject:

FCDRIFTER,nice drifting. i would love to see the culture grow in trinidad but only time will tell.

Tsuchiya · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject:

here's Kazama and Orido both using Kazama's personal daily drifter

Death-Row · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject:

Tsuchiya,wow, simple and sexy look to that car. nice drifting also. Very Happy

Tsuchiya · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject:

Death-Row · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject:

Tsuchiya,wow............you got any pics? great ride.

Tsuchiya · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject:

Click for full-size.

Death-Row · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject:

Tsuchiya,very nice. saw this up maraval side i think once. very nice ride. congrats.

Tsuchiya · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

^hadda try sumthin dred

here's Kazama and Ueo at it. Kazama in the green dg5 S15, Ueo in the revolver ae86

Tsuchiya · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject:

Imamura foolin around with a street S15

MG Man · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

Colin Mc Rae

Tsuchiya · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:01 pm Post subject:

^^^i thought ur fav was Gavin Kershaw Laughing

MG Man · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject:

yeah buh it doh have no youtube vids wid him Sad

if u wanna see de man drift ah Elise while casually explaining the finer points of track testing, lemme know.........that Lotus DVD is unreal.......well except for the boring old farts babbling bout 1.3cc Coventry Climax powered Lotus Elevens Laughing

Chipz · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject:

Ken Nomora is d boss

Chica · Street 2NR Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Tech posts: 61 My 2NRide:

Kerry & Jay!
they are the best... Very Happy

Tsuchiya · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject:

^^groupie....ah jokin Laughing

Rooki3 · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject:

BENSON HSU......................U.S Drifter Cool

sixthspeed · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:12 am Post subject:

Mad Mike's with the 4 Rotor Drift FD from NZ - because apart from having one of the sickest cars in drift I LOVE the fact that he just doesn't give a sheit. Smoke tires anywhere, do donuts anywhere - go in hard, come out harder

Daijairo (Dai) - i like the fact that when he started he was one of the youngest drifters out there and everybody

Tsuchiya - because his ability is uncanny, can't argue with a man that can drift anything by just breathing on it.

AbuBakr · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:54 am Post subject:

My favourite drifters is kerry and Jodi ..........yayyyyyyy! Razz

Skyline_babe · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:29 pm Post subject:

Keiichi Tsuchiya,to me because of his skills he shows how well a car can perform or not perform..frikkin man is awesome! Mr. Green

Death-Row · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:49 pm Post subject:

Skyline_babe,true dat, he also doesnt rely on big horse power machines like some of the others, man drifting stock car Laughing

nismown3d · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:19 am Post subject:

my 2 favorites Manabu Orido and Nobuteru Taniguchi

They're both amazing togue and track drift drivers. Both drift SICK cars, Orido has his JZA80 as well as JZS161, and Nob drifts the HKS JZS161, S15, and Altezza.

Nob also holds the record for Tskuba time attack with the HKS CT230R.