"Gentlemen! Start your engines!"
Posted on 09/09/2008 4:59:31 PM PDT by Spktyr
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Helps narrow down the choices for the gearheads, doesn't it?
Vote Obama, watch him ban everything that's not a GWiz or Prius.
Or
Vote McCain, get gearheads in the White House.
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I saw that about 30 minutes ago. She is an awesome first lady to have!!
She *is* Mrs. NASCAR
Go ahead on Miss (Mrs.) Cindy !!!!
Ain’t that something.
We seem to have real people on our side this election and it excites the heck out of me !
I think the rednecks and gun nuts are going to win this election for us. (I’m both)
Me too. **cheers**
Let’s not go that far!
Just a slight complaint with the interviewer. “It’s called drifting, a technique invented in Japan about 20 years ago.”
No, I hardly think so. I was racing sports cars back in 1960, and I well remember practicing 4-wheel drifts in the commercial parking lot in Huntsville, Alabama, where I was at Army Electronics School. We did it on Sundays, when the stores were closed and the lot was empty.
And of course the technique was used in turns when racing.
Still, good to know that Cindy McCain likes to do this.
I’m both plus a bible thumper!
Actually, there’s an entire form of motorsport called “drifting”, which did start in Japan in the 80s. The objective is to four-wheel-drift around the *entire* race course. Yes, that means going sideways down the straights, however long they may be. Hence the name.
Negative - drifters have to turn left and right. NASCRASH only turns left... left.... left... left...
She turns my gears ;-)
"Gentlemen! Start your engines!"
ping
From the other video there: she took auto shop in high school, she likes to get under the hood. I think this surprise is on par with the Sarah surprise. Not as important but ... just damn! Where’s Michael when you need him!
Interesting. I learned how to do a four-wheel drift in the parking lot, and then applied it to racing. But of course you could, as you say, just do it for fun, and the parking lot drifting was very enjoyable.
I often thought of it at the time as being rather like doing parallel turns in downhill skiing, which also involve sliding at an angle sideways first one way, then the other, and can be done straight downhill as well as around turns.
So, in other words, the Japanese decided to stay in the parking lot and just keep drifting. Well, we did that too, but didn’t think of making it an organized sport.
Yes, they did stay in the parking lot for a while... but now they’re actually doing drifting *races*. As in, drifting around a real track. It’s called D1 Racing.
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