fixnprsh

V8 power and damn near perfect weight distribution good for doughnuts and drifting!

perrys4

Does this mean there is going to be a rush by drifters to purchase 928'S? Could be good and bad!!

2V4V

Lovely. I have never understood the "spectator value" to drifting - or even extended burnouts. Fun to do yourself, sure that makes sense. But I just can't get my head around showing up to watch somebody else do donuts in the parking lot. Or worse, on a track.

Oh well. Different strokes and all that. Some (not all) of the kids really dig it. Perhaps it will get some more exposure for the 928.

Greg

GoRideSno

Was this an actual drifting event or a just someone playing at a track? I would have to think the latter given the language on the banners. Thx for posting.
Andy K

Normy

I just spent $600 tires on my 928 last spring- it was a wet yar....which are a hearbeat away frrom vaporization At the next spoplight.. If you run across a good deal on tires, let me know....

N!

autochicago

Just another event to broaden the appeal. It goes with what Andy states about the 928 on his website. Drifting may not be our thing, but ...

Nicole

This guy has some interesting other stuff on his website. For example:

http://www.rieseler-online.de/timo/LeistungUndVMax.htm

He relates power and drag, and provides a table on the increae in top speed based on percentages of power increase.

For example, if you add 100% power, top speed only increases by 26%. If you add 3% - about the gain you get from removing your cat - you merely gain 1% in top speed. These are facts based on the laws of physics, so there is no point in disputing them...

The above burnout of the 928 is from the "Drift Challenge" in 2003. and he describes it the nicest of the event.

Parnelli Joneser

With "real" magazines like Car & Driver, Road & Track devoting pages to this new form of automotive activity (it's not a race, nor a motorsport), it surely means that you'll be seeing more drifting in the future, then of course a TV reality series based on the lives of professional drifters. But that's beside the point. I'm with Greg, I have no interest in sitting in bleachers waiting for a clouds of tire smoke to enhance the boredom.

But doing it yourself, not that's a whole different thing. Sort of like rally driving. And I have thought of how well a 928 would lend itself to drifting, but it would also kind of be like taking Bo Derek to your high school reunion. Pointless, basically. Nonetheless, seeing as my car is a salvage titled thrasher... who knows. Drifting, eh?

autochicago

I dunno I actually kind of find the activity entertaining to watch at least for good laughs. Personally all of us that lived in cold climates had good fun in high school doing parking maneuvers and donuts on snow/ice. Anyone who thought that a Geo Tracker cannot do burnouts should watch a guy in his high school parking lot drop the clutch and smoke all four wheels on dry pavement for an extended period of time to get carried by the shirt collar into the principals office. Great humor.

GoRideSno

Hahaha... I had to park my F150 4x4 across the street from the High School for alegedly burning rubber in the HS parking lot. I used to jump the railroad tracks in the middle of town. I would catch 30-40ft of distance air in the RR tracks outside of town. Much fun was had drifting through turns on narrow sand roads with 4 foot ditches on each side at 50-70 MPH. All before age 17.

Andy K

autochicago

That's good stuff. Believe it or not, my mother's Cutlass Cruiser wagon was also good for railroad track air. Guess the way the suspension loaded up was just conducive to it. Or maybe it was the 16-year-old driver.

Or, try outrunning the cops in a Baja Jeep 8" lift, built 350, NOS, Turbo Trans through a sand dune area of a gravel excavation area, then through a corn field. Watching ol' Roscoe P. Coltrane throw his hat on the ground, swearing , as he screeches the squad car to a stop on the shoulder of the road near the entrance and watched us make a grand Baja getaway is pure classic Dukes of Hazard style. LOVE IT.

The aforementioned stories are exactly why my kids are going to driver's school and are going to get their driving aggressions out on a track.

Sorry to go so OT.