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Back when I was really heavy into drifting, I used to always dream at night about drifting. Since I shifted my focus on my family, the dreams started to go away and drifting occupied less of my everyday thoughts.
Since working on the drift cars the other weekend and picking up some Neovas for my new SSR wheels, I started to think about my car a lot. It started to rain last week, and after some “street testing” in my G35, I started to think about drifting a lot – so much so that I mounted my tires and changed my wheels in the rain on Saturday. I went and did some “driving” real quick. I can’t get it out of my head now… I just want to install all these parts I’ve had sitting around in my garage and I want to go driving again! I’ve been having dreams every night about drifting, my new wheels, etc. Here’s a funny thing I just noticed – my drifting dreams are NEVER at the track. Why is that??
I hope you all had a good new year. I had a fun one with the friends… although it was a little hazy due to all the drinking before hand. I think that we even counted down after midnight already passed.
Got any resolutions for 2009? I’ve never made any new year resolutions, mostly because I’m a firm believer in always trying to become a better person. BUT if I had to choose one, I guess I would say to be a better father. Kristy is really teaching me so much about what it means to be a father and I think it’s probably the most difficult thing a man can do. Being a father takes some serious effort – as in life changing effort! She is definitely opening my eyes constantly and making me realize that being a father is less about setting ground rules and being a firm dictator, but more about empathy and guidance. I sound old!
Speaking of old… look at how old this blog is!! If you count the time when I was blogging before I made sileightymania.com, I think this blog would be 10 years old. If not, then this entry marks the start of it’s 9th year. Are you kidding me??? Where has all the time gone?
Every once in a while I go back through my old pictures and videos on my computer. Sometimes, when I can’t find what I’m looking for, I become obsessed until I find it. The video I’m posting is one of those videos… It was filmed at Rim of the World Rally in 2005. It took me forever to figure that out, because I didn’t update my journal at that time.
Here’s a video of me drifting in the “Drift Invite” competition. Nadine was nice enough to let me drive her car for the competition, because my car didn’t have a cage and she wanted me to compete since I hadn’t for such a long time. This is the Top 4 round vs Calvin Wan, since I beat Tommy Suell in the Top 16 round and then Stephan Papadakis in the Top 8 round.
In the video, you’ll see that we had a one more time run, where something happened and Calvin spun in front of me. It was such a simple section of the track that I felt okay with blinking once I passed the clipping cone – bad mistake. When I opened my eyes, Calvin’s door was right in front of me and I slammed into him with my throttle to the ground. At that moment, I thought about when I was chasing him the round earlier, he seemed a bit weird in that section of the course…
I felt so bad afterwards that I didn’t even want to try and fix the car to go back on the track. Calvin fixed his car and won the round by default, but then he went on and beat Tanner Foust to get 1st place. He was really nice and gave Nadine and I some of his winnings to fix our car even though he didn’t have to.
And that, boys and girls, is the story of why Nadine has an S15 face on her car. Because I had to fix her car afterwards! This was also my only real crash while drifting.
Yeah, these are old. But it’s always fun watching “the greats” and looking at the differences in car and driving style.
Ueo. He is always concentrating on quick and precise direction changes. Watch how fast his hands are!
Kumakubo. Does he really need to kick the clutch so much? No… but this is drifting! Kick away!
Kazama. He looks very smooth and controlled in this video, to me, a sign of a very confident and calculated driver. Listen to his throttle during the direction changes… he lets off the accelerator, but not fully and only for a split second. You know he is coming in fast for the upcoming corner. At this course and these speeds, the longer you stay on the gas and sooner you get on it after lifting, the more likely you will go flying off course, where it is slippery and you will probably die.
Nomuken. Nomuken’s driving style is always scary looking to me. He looks like he’s fumbling around with the steering wheel and making a lot of corrections. I am sure that it’s just his style, but it makes me nervous! Watch his crazy shifting into the first corner… clutch kick in 3rd gear, and a split second later, upshift into 4th!
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