"Formula Drift 2009" (33 photos)

On Saturday and Sunday August 15-16 in "Crocus Expo" held final stage V of the International Championship "Formula Drift". Event guests waited isolation exciting fight pilots and PRO STREET series, spectacular twin races in the spotlight, and a special guest from America!

Drift - controlled drift is when the car at high speed should fit into the rotation. To win in this competition, there is little to pass a line faster than anyone, you should still do it beautifully. Popular in Japan, Europe and America drift slowly beginning to gain momentum in Russia. Only in the last few months in Moscow and St. Petersburg hosted a series of major events in which Russian drifters were able to show their driving skills, and the audience - to see the scale on the organization of the show.

1) Drift - (from the English. Drift) special technique of driving in a controlled drift the rear axle on a circular section of the race track, and only on the asphalt.

2) An important feature of competition drift is that the winner is not determined at the time of the plot, as in other competitions.

3) drifting evaluated parameters such as the trajectory of the vehicle, speed, angle of passage skid and definitely entertainment arrival.

4) All of this requires a pilot demonstration of the highest control of the vehicle.

5) the occurrence of such drift drifting cars used only with rear-wheel drive.

6) The most popular driftovymi cars were cars Toyota and Nissan - Toyota Corolla Levin, Mark II, Altezza; Nissan Silvia, Skyline, Fairlady, 350 Z.

7) have proven to be the technique of Japanese rally wheel-drive Subaru Impreza WRX STI and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, converted under the rear-wheel drive can also uchastovat drifting.

8) History drift began in Japan in the mid-1960s, when the most enthusiastic fans speed improved their driving skills on the mountain and winding roads.

9) Mobile tire.

10) When it got dark, it became very difficult to remove, especially at telephoto.

11) Drivers tried as quickly as possible "skip" the most difficult areas.

12) Gradually, these races have become carried out in the city, where drivers practiced in open asphalt parking lots and cars bright and daring driving style has attracted a growing number of fans.

13) For a long time drift remained outside the law and, like everything associated with high speeds on the road, had the lot of the night illegal street racing.

14) Over time, the situation began to change in urban races appeared the spirit of competition, and the Japanese Daijiro Inada entrepreneur (Daijiro Inada), founder of the automobile magazine Option Magazine and the Tokyo Motor Show, helped Drift reach the professional level.

15) Thanks to him, in 1999, Japan hosted the first professionally organized competition D1 Grand Prix, which brought the drift to a new level.

16) The relatively fast fame and success of Japanese drifting competitions spread across the ocean and found in North America, where in 2003 he organized the American Professional Series Formula drift was the company Slipstream Global Marketing.

17) At the start, without much enthusiasm pilots escorted the girl in panties advertising.

18) A pilot prepares for takeoff.

19) Procession drift on our country started with the Far East and was developed in the European part of Russia.

20) The main reason was the proximity of Russia and Japan, and the ability to import Japanese racing cars used in races.

21) The first and second places were taken by car Toy Sport, pilots and machines are very similar, now I can not remember who was the first)

22) Judges tower.

23) winners.

24) The first Russian drifting competitions were held in Vladivostok in 2005 with the support of the city government, and then began to pass around Primorsky Krai.