[RANT]
Not to be a pain in the butt, but after watching all the other vids, I think I should've had a slightly higher score...maybe not win, but at least better than some of the vids
I know I didn't have the speed or the power of the other cars, like dory...no offense, but he had 517 hp and Nitrous, which he used in the double apex and other corners...I did the whole double apex without nitrous and in a car under 300 hp (224 [replay] I had at the time)...maybe it wasn't as fast or smokey, but I had 300 less horses...
I was also the only one to completely link every corner from the turn after the hairpin to the second tunnel (manji after the first tunnel)...also in a low power car, no one else in a high power car did it.
I even linked everything from the final tunnel after the straight to the final corner (manji of course), also in the lowest power car...Electric almost had it, (straightend a bit before the kink) and he had at least 200 horses on me.
I know in real drifting competitions, there are horsepower handicaps. I was at the Road Atlanta drifting event, in which one of the semi's had Sam in a Dodge Viper vs Taka in an AE86...now everyone knows the AE86 has at least -200 to -300 hp on the Viper, and the AE86 almost won (had to drop out due to engine overheating, too many "do overs"). He obviously couldn't out run the Viper or catch up to it when he started out behind, but he did his best to make the car perform as good as it could in the situation. I just don't think that I need 500+ hp and nitrous to win a GTPDC, I should have an equally good chance by doing my best with a 200-300 car as well. 83 hp with a Fiat 500L would be extreme, but a low power BMW should be able to get a good score, not lose because it couldn't go as fast or put out as much smoke as the others. Just to make sure the judges noticed this: dory was running in km/h...not sure if that made him look way faster than everyone else, or the judges already factored that in. Just making sure
I don't want to be annoying, but it seems like I should have got more points than I did (again maybe not win, but that was the best that car could do), the judges seem to be in favor of high horsepower cars...
The scores were in the order of hp (and actually these are taken off the replay, which are lower than the actual, except mine, so really I'm way down there compared to the others):
1st dory: 517
2nd erocks: 464
3rd king: 388 (actually I think he should have benn 3rd, others 4th, because 7.41 is much closer to 7.50 than 7.00.....)
3rd electric: 325
3rd geekz: 224
See something tells me this is wrong or rigged...
Even BL said:
Easy is not exciting...nitrous is easy....
I could have done the double apex with my 2000 without a turbo stage 1 and racing exhaust if I had nitrous....
So I think this was somewhat unfair to the low horsepower guy, and people know I don't like high horsepower cars (I tried a 600+ hp Audi, no luck with this track)...so I think the scores should be tailored to the car and how good the driver can drive it, not just how flashy you can be by using 500 hp and nitrous (no offense to dory, nice run, but I think nitrous [especially in a 500+ hp car] is kinda cheating, since I did the same thing with 283 hp no nitrous).
No offense to any drivers...just my opinion on hp and drifting
Congratz to all except me 👎
CG
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EDIT: Electric...... was banned? ouch (read his profile, obviously he is mad at someone or something)...salutes to a good drifter and WRS driver
EDIT2: about the use of nitrous in drifting, I just wanted to post this link
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=64088&highlight=Nos+Drifting
I know nitrous wasn't needed for this comp, especially in the M5...I tried the M5 once for this, after I kept having problems with the 2000...it can EASILY do the double apex, there was no need to use nitrous for it. Also on the back section to link the corners, you really did not need it, if I pulled it off with the 2000 almost every lap I drifted. Even my GTPDC3 entry with a Mazda Autozam AZ-1 with 123 hp didn't need nitrous for the bigger corners....(I used to have nitrous equipped on the Autozam because it's so slow, but in that comp I didn't need it, and I actually don't use it anymore, only cars under 100hp should actually have to use nitrous, but anything over that is just weakness)
Seriously, I think there are better ways to increase the angle of a drift, without resorting to nitrous...so I think getting points for smoke and angle when using nitrous is crap. Nitrous may make for a good looking vid, long drifts, and high angles, but really I see it as a weakness and just a cover up for something you couldn't normally do without extra horsepower [especially true in a high horsepower car].
Obviously I'm kinda angry at the moment, sorry...give me a warning or ban me, I don't care, I'm just trying to get my point across...
Sorry dory, I'm not angry at you, more at the judges...you're a good drifter, actually a really good drifter, but I don't think you needed nitrous for your run
No hard feelings? [hopefully] *shakes hands*
EDIT3: my horsepower, according to replay to be like the others, is 224...so I made the appropriete changes to my rant. I will post my replay with the horsepower in it to show I'm not wrong, give me a sec
