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Yeah people that drive fast on the streets on morons

good, VERY good

As a track enjoyer, I tried a drifting session and I found that I absolutely hated it. The depth to which I hated it was honestly surprising, even to myself. I don't like how the car controls when drifting, it's not fast around a track, and I don't find it cool. I don't hate drifters, I just hate drifting myself. But, I think it's just a matter of preference, if you just wanna go fast, track is where you enjoy that, if you want to feel cool and show off a bit, drifting is where you go. Driving fast feels much more of a solo or competitive endeavour, but drifting feels more like a "bro check me out" kind of thing. Maybe that's why people doing autocross/track days don't really care about sharing on the internet, it's just about your time on the stopwatch. Whereas drift is more like a dance where your performance is judged by others, and that brings its own culture of sharing and watching.

For drifting it looks cool and fun. Also it migth be due to anime partially. I mean honestly as a normal consumer what would you rather watch? An MMA match where they beating the crap out of each other or a BJJ match where in the fist 20 minutes spent with looking at each other intensely? People want to see exciting stuff.

This is an excellent video. As a member, driver, instructor, and time trial competitor of my local SCCA region we are actively trying to bring in younger generations to keep the sport alive. I think the reason behind the lack of track day “vlog” style videos is simply the sheer amount of time spent in classroom and in car. It’s not as easy to chop videos up and most novice and intermediate drivers videos aren’t dramatic enough to warrant upload to the internet. Drifting is probably my most favorite Motorsport to watch. It’s microdosing the action just like skipping to the end of a spec Miata or nascar race where drivers are sending it for the last push - but you’ve waited 20 minutes or 6 hours to get to that excitement. Being at events and competing in front of crowds like gridlife festivals it’s clear that most if not all of those spectators are there for the drifting. Yes the twin turbo corvettes in time attack are cool but they don’t go sideways and tap bumpers and produce smoke like the drift cars. Thanks for the content. I really hope to see more of this (30 year old and feel like a boomer around drift kids)

Man that was interesting. Points that are not being made elsewhere.

A really nice video, keep up, I'm following you

What we need is a fully Grassroots Motorsports movement. Spec racing with a very low barrier to entry. I'm talking Stock Engine with cooling mods and better tires. Full contact close racing. Can probably do a Power to Weight formula to keep it competitive.

Really good video, happy this came up in my recommended! Looks like you and I are fairly local and will cross paths at some point as well. I think your point about community hubs is a huge one. Drifting has social media as a home, while track/autocross have very little than themselves.

I love that I found this video! The last year has been my first full year in Autox and I absolutely loved it! Took first place in my stock fiesta st in H street. But trying to convince my friends or anyone I really know to go along with me and just "try it" is more difficult than if I were to ask them to take the SAT's for fun. Love to see another RUclipsr showing off autox and why it is so great. Ive learned so much about my driving and my car by the end of the season. And now im building a NA Miata for next year. Cheers 🥂

Drifting is fun. Autocross is not*. Young folks want to have fun. Drifting is cool, its loose, and its wild. Its a great way to show off. The skateboarding analogy is perfect. *AutoX is fun, but not like drifting is fun. Its so type A. Sort fun in the same way golfing is fun.

one thing I feel contributes is the fact that drifting has more going on, at least if you're filming it. There's the engine noises, tire squeal, and all this other stuff that make it succeed on social media a lot better than autocross or track events.

This vid is a culture shock to me because track/road racing is alive and well with the young crowd down here where I’m at

Great video! I did autocross for a few years but stopped after literally just attending a drift event like 7 years ago. Something about the style and the comradery at the drift event was something I'd never found at autox. Before I even had a car that I could feasibly drift, I shot photography at the local events for years just to be around that scene. I'm building a grip based, supercharged Miata and I have no intentions of doing any track days with it and I feel like that speaks volumes about the state of grip driving events today.

So basically you think that what makes a sport grow ou make it healthy are RUclips views 🤷🏻‍♂️

Drifting looks faster on camera even though it's not about speed🤷

Agree, great vid BTW. I do track days where I drift once I am done lapping as the tires are shot and it always is somewhat frowned upon. Dedicated drift events in Austria are few and far between

As someone who does both drifting and road course track days, street takeovers and street "drifting" is almost certainly why it has a bad rep. I get asked all the time to clarify what drifting even is by friends and family who are ignorant on the subject-- their first assumption is the dickwads in intersections on the news. They're always pleasantly surprised when they learn what it actually is. Also drifting tears up concrete, which is expensive af, and just another reason larger tracks don't want it (track maintenance is costly enough).

Early 30s. Love both, can afford neither. God speed and good luck.

Great video. I think you’re right that marketing and social media are the biggest differentiators between drifting and grip driving awareness. I’m 24 and I’ve been doing rallyx/autox/track days with the SCCA since I was a teenager. I’ve watched drifting blow up in the last 10 years and it’s all because of the entertainment value and the media it creates. When I tell people about racing they almost never know what the SCCA is or that there are racetracks nearby. However in the last few years I have noticed a larger percentage of newcomers and young people at the events I go to and I’m always happy to see it. Gears & Gasoline has been making super high quality, entertaining track content and I’m sure they’re introducing lots of people to this world. There are a few channels making similar content but we need more. I was particularly surprised to see AdamLZ doing stage rally content, I’m sure that was new to many of his viewers. It’s all positive, the more people get into it, the more funding events will get, which will make them more accessible for everyone. My algorithm gives me track day/amateur w2w reels and it gives me hope!!

The biggest enemy of autox is the SCCA. They have no idea on how to market it. And lets be honest, driving around cones in a parking lot is a lot harder to make look cool than drifting. The huge rulebook doesn't help or the poor seat time ratio. For hpde I think its more that it's so fractured. There are probably at least a dozen orgs in my area running events at the same tracks. However there is no effort to work together to advertise as a whole and so there isn't a lot of reach. Also a lot of the track guys come from road racing and can be fuds about safety stuff. I know the clubs with less regulations around me skew a lot younger (and tend to be scarier on track). I think there is just a much less risk adverse culture in drifting. I always think the biggest hurdle is just convincing someone the first time to go out on track. Social media is really your key marketing there.

Track days gotta have an average age of 55 fr fr

Almost? Roflmao, 100% differently

Tracks are way more smoother and you can go faster on corners

Looks like fun on the one side, but hell for the suspension POV 😅

Ultra committed driving, entertaining to watch. But try to relax your hands a little…very nervous…and try to keep your hands always at the same position, usually you do not need to move your hands away from the left and right position (except the rear comes out 😬) Sorry, I know, nobody asked, it just caught my eyes. 🤗✌️

I both ski and track my car often and you would be surprised how similar some aspects of both sports are.

Schleeeeeep eangle

Song choice insanely prime. Content is fire bro keep it up!

Hell yeah! The flow, weightlessness, it's awesome

On the road I don’t want to risk spinning out because I’m bombing into a corner you have to be respectful and that’s means not pushing the car

Nah, late night factory area drift sessions are the best... To be fair, those who do a lot of illegal high level street drifting are just as good driver's as most track racers/drifters. There's a time and a place to practice driving like that on the street, only the very best are good enough to do it amongst traffic and maintain their drift within the boundaries of their lane in traffic

There was one street driver we saw get exposed this year, and that's Logan Sargeant 😂😂😂..we saw through Ken Block for the untalented hack he was years ago. An influencer pretending to be a driver. The same way KSI and Jake Paul pretend to be boxers.

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That track is gross.

Wow that steering rack seems like it's got a really low ratio. Is that normal???

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All gears broke over 1 shift?

crazy ja, the clutch is the 3rd pedal. And this isnt a sequential 🗿

I need an ID on this song! Sick edit though ✨ found via Reddit somehow 😅

Holy shit could have been way worse. nice job not packing

Woahhh! What happened???

Cool, needs to be taller somehow, maybe a flag on a super flexible pylon

Im gonna bring my Ford Raptor One day and annihilate the track record

Also when the heck did you get a Mazda? What car is this??

What is this genre? Euro Core? Absolute BOP haha

The head bob at the end xD

Stock m20b25? Seems to run well

Hey hey how many runs can u do? Rules on passing? 4hr event...does that mean you have the freedom to enter the track whenever? I just discovered the group and $150 is a steal bro haha

I do love the shot selection too tho!