Car Surfing ( ae 86 )

  ae 86

We took a once-around with Justin Kikkawa, 28, the best 3-time winner of these drifting periods, which started out last November. Kikkawa is a bashful man with a mischievous grin who appears to be apologizing while he says he works in a gasoline station, but it is easy to tell he's having huge, grimy a laugh, and like all of the different drivers, he used to do that up on Tantalus. Maybe still does.

He was using the maximum-favored vehicle of drifters-a maroon 'eighty five DOHC Toyota Corolla GT-S. The 'eighty four via '87 fashions are preferred; the line went the front-pressure in '88. That automobile is understood in the game as hachiroku (it interprets to "eight six," which refers to the model's manufacturing unit code call, the AE86). His front tires had been vintage 15-inchers (195/50s) with 40 kilos of air in them, and the rears (185/70s) were loaded to 44 pounds. Inner, it is as messy as a youngster's room. Buckling up, i used to be reassured to see there had been no coconut timber or telephone poles close to the rims of the track-simply bushes.
"k, here is going," stated Kikkawa, grinning like a kid who's about to explode a toad with a cherry bomb. In a moment, his automobile turned into careening sideways, tires shrieking and smoking. He roared left, then wickedly right, his arms and forearms flailing at the wheel, and i was placing on. And guffawing. Maximum motors rise up to 40 or so mph, however Kikkawa is superb at this and can run close to 60, with the spinning rears going the equivalent of a hundred mph. "Dude's awesome," one of his opponents stated.
At an respectable go with the flow consultation, every motive force receives three chances to qualify for a run of the 10 great, then the ones drivers make two passes to slim the very last subject to 5, with a unmarried run determining the winner. Scoring is on a ten-factor scale. Get  wheels off-direction, lose a factor; get four off, lose  points; spin out to in which you can't recover, and you get a goose egg; fail to drift through a turn, lose a point; and so on.
It is now not a game for passengers, except you want driving in washing machines. When I were given out, I laughed and said in a relieved manner, "ok, this is sufficient for me." Kikkawa laughed wildly, then drove off to line up for some other run. I hung around long sufficient to watch his 2nd skip and see him fly off the tune and into the high weeds. Absolute confidence he turned into guffawing all the manner.