road tracks

PSiedTSi

there WILL be drifting in/around winnipeg this summer...someone is finalizing something up there...

krzydrftr93

Drifting is starting to hit pretty good. Cant wait til we get same nice drift events going on in fargo a lot more. need a nice track or something

PSiedTSi

god im not even looking forward to it any more...its just gonna be gay now...i want to run road courses tho

krzydrftr93

Why are you not looking forward to it. Drifiting is fun is it not?

PSiedTSi

ehh...every ricer is gonna do it now...id personally rather tear it up on a roadcourse...now that sounds FUN

krzydrftr93

I think either way it is fun. road course maybe puts down more g's but drift gives you the rush

PSiedTSi

a lot of drifters say it is boring...its only fun for the crowd is what ive been told...

krzydrftr93

hmmmm....never been to one or anything hope to find out first hand soon

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krzydrftr93 wrote:
I think either way it is fun. road course maybe puts down more g's but drift gives you the rush

Drifting does not need to be paid for, you live in a climate that has winter. You want a rush, drift thru 5pm traffic on a monday.

Phats

PSiedTSi wrote:
ehh...every ricer is gonna do it now...id personally rather tear it up on a roadcourse...now that sounds FUN
Actually we are planning a Trip out to Cali for a week or so late summer for a road course long weekend at the streets of willow, and then one in the middle of the summer to mid ohio, it's expensive, but a blast.

Yeah i think road racing will be more fun than drifting, becuae of the stupid people that are being associated with it now

And the autox, yeah i do believe that may be a tentative, but there will Proboably be a few a month, that's all i got now.

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CCr wrote:
Drifting does not need to be paid for, you live in a climate that has winter. You want a rush, drift thru 5pm traffic on a monday.

Sliding your ass around on icy roads does not constitute "drifting". Drifting is the art of being at the edge of control on a dry surface whilst engaging in a series of slides. If drifting were as easy as most people think, the competitors would just buy the hardest, non-gripping tires they could find and use them. However, most of them use very sticky tires as they need to have the traction on demand.

krzydrftr93

tjamz wrote:
Sliding your ass around on icy roads does not constitute "drifting". Drifting is the art of being at the edge of control on a dry surface whilst engaging in a series of slides. If drifting were as easy as most people think, the competitors would just buy the hardest, non-gripping tires they could find and use them. However, most of them use very sticky tires as they need to have the traction on demand.

THANK YOU and im not saying i wouldnt like to do a road course.

harwood39

Phats, how much safety equipment do you have to have in your car to run at those road coarse events, i am very interested in going if you dont mind.

wa2fastcamaro

I do a lot of road course racing in Brainard and in Elkhardt Wisconsin. If any of you want to come with next year, I can get you more info. I usually go with the Porsche Guys because there more fun, they run balls to the wall, and don't car about wrecking a 250K car.

We run brainard 5-6 times a year, costs between $200-$400 per event, and I run Elkart Lake once a year and that is usually $400 a event. You need to go to the first event and be signed off by a instructor to go to any of the other ones, Usually in late april.

Your allowed to run your car as fast and hard as you want, just as long as you don't hit anyone, they don't like that.

Manditory saftey equipent include a fire estuingisher(can't spell), 5 point harnesses, for both front seats, Snell 100 on better race helmet, and your car has to be soild, no lose parts, everyhting tied down.

Let me know if you need more info, it costs a lot to run, and its maily just for fun, unless you can compete with porsche GT3 Cup cars, I wouldn't wrry about the acutal races.

Mike

krzydrftr93

That does sound like a lot of fun. I want to go watch. Does it cost anything to be spectator?

harwood39

but you dont need a cage?

Phats

Nope No Cage NEEDED, but for the harness sometimes it's smart to get a harness bar, or someting along those lines, although, in the tracks that i'm going too, you just need standard safety equipment, and a helmet, maybe because they're not timed, they're session that are meant to let a person get used to their car, and supposedly non competitive, as in telling a faster car what side to pass you on, and passing only on straights, so on........I Didn't Know that they can still run in Brainerd, otherwise i woulda been all over that, i'm gonna have to look into that.........

harwood39

sweet, i am definately going to road coarses this summer, just need to know when others are going and dates of all of them, even if people arent going.