Well I don’t even know where to start here, but I take it that most of you have watched Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift or the Chinese movie, Initial D. Anyways, I’m not going to assume things, so I’ll review the two movies for you viewers for a quick picture of what I’m going to discuss.
Initial D - Released June 23, 2005 (China)
Plot: Two mountain road racers, Nakazato and Takahashi, challenged each other to find the best racers, and defeat them in “battles”. Nakazato was surprisingly defeated by an old Toyota Trueno AE86 (Corolla in the US) one night, and he searched for the person who defeated him [...more]
Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift - Released June 16, 2006 (USA)
Plot: An American teenager named Shawn Boswell is a loner in school, however he challenges his rival for an illegal street racing, and he totals his car in the end of the race. To avoid time in prison he is send to Tokyo to live with his father who is in the military. As soon as he arrives he discovers a new, fun but dangerous way of street racing in the underworld of the streets of Tokyo, Japan [...more]
Anyways, here’s a YouTube video of D1 drifting events in Los Angeles. This is just to get some of you familiar with what drifting really is and how it is performed to win. The video shows Hulk Hogan’s son, Nick Hogan, drifting a Dodge Viper.
Saudis Gone Wild
To get back on topic, I’m going to introduce to you viewers how the Saudi Arabians drift and I gotta say, they’re some crazy drivers.
As you can tell by the Saudi video clip, the drivers don’t really give a damn about how much traffic or people there are on the streets. I recently did research on their laws and it seems like they are finally reforming their traffic laws with severe punishments. Most of you know that the Saudi streets are pretty much deserts and huge open roads, but the death count is still able to reach 5,000 a year due to reckless drivers.
In the US, drifting is not something to have joy rides about. Every driver wears the proper equipment, which includes their fire-proof suit and helmet. Drifting is conducted in huge race tracks with cones. The cones are to control their drifting to sharper turns and similar strategies. The racing vehicles are tuned to handle the sharp turns with distributed weight, so they’re not stock toys. In the Saudi clips, it seems like the Saudis are just drifting ordinary daily drivers. Can you say MAD REPAIRS?!?!
I would definitely want to try “Saudi Drifting” if I ever visit, but I would probably end up killing myself or someone else.
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