World Drift Record

[Shannon]

Englishman Simon de Bbank will go into the Guiness Book of Records for the longest car drift. While officials set a 15-minute mark as a record breaker, Simon smashed the time at England's MIRA proving ground by holding a WRX sideways for a mind-blowing two hours, eleven minutes and eighteen seconds! That's almost 107 kilometres!

 

[Cobraboy]

How the hell could he do that? I'd like to see what his tyres were like.

 

[Dudebusta]

holy steaming donkey poo!

his tyres would have been hot as hell!

 

[Dudebusta]

might have had to stop because he burnt out the cv joints

 

[Cobraboy]

I dont suppose your avatar dudebusta has anything to do with drifting attempts?

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Dudebusta
holy steaming donkey poo!

his tyres would have been hot as hell!

Tell me about it.

 

[Dudebusta]

its just a movie i had and i converted a portion into an avatar. its a supra drifting at over 100kmh around a racetrack in america. video is great.

 

[Shannon]

I tried making an avatar out of a movie I have of Tony Hawk doing the 900. Couldn't get the file size low enough though...it's like 126kb.

 

[Cobraboy]

How the hell could you hold a drift for so long if your going in a straight line???

 

[Cobraboy]

two hours, eleven minutes and eighteen seconds

He must've been really bored.

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Cobraboy

He must've been really bored.

He was raising money for a charity. He ended up raising something like $30,000.

 

[Talentless]

i have the drift video of the supra and knew about the record months ago. y'all need to subscribe to the piston heads newsletter(s) already.

 

[Shannon]

Yeah, well I was reading through one of my car mags from a few months ago and found that in there.

Those two obviously didn't know about the record.

 

[Cobraboy]

I dont subscribe to anything...

 

[Robin2]

so the gay newsletter in your mailbox is your invisible friends?

 

[Race Idiot]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
How the hell could you hold a drift for so long if your going in a straight line???

You cant drift in a straight line.

He went around and around on some sort of circle type track, I saw it on TV a while ago. They had the guy who broke the record some F1 driver and Tiff Nedel (I think it was on top gear an old UK car program) and they tried loads of different cars drifting round this circle type track.

 

[1X83Z]

How does the car have enough momentum to continue drifting for so long, though?

 

[-Fred-]

Originally posted by M5Power
How does the car have enough momentum to continue drifting for so long, though?

it could be spinning on a "skidpad"? like drifting constantly to the right, or to the left, in a circular shape?

 

[alex_gt]

Any Pics Eddie

I bet he did in on a Runway somewhere, surely the tarmac would have been pure black rubber when he'd finished?

 

[Hooligan]

Originally posted by M5Power
How does the car have enough momentum to continue drifting for so long, though?

It had to be on a skidpad, probably wet, too. Constantly feathering the throttle, careful steering, etc. Not exactly something I could do....

 

[Joey D]

My friend told me about this a few weeks ago. It's crazy!!!!

 

[Dudebusta]

Originally posted by PunkRock


it could be spinning on a "skidpad"? like drifting constantly to the right, or to the left, in a circular shape?

theres a video at www.3rotor.com that has a blue rex drifting in a circle. im pretty sure that what that guy did. maybe he drifted around a roundabout. ive seen an R34 do 12 circuits of a roundabout when i was driving to work one day

 

[1X83Z]

I suppose if he did it for two hours, then with the right conditions he could do it for any period of time.

 

[Dudebusta]

you could drift in mazkids car if you had a huge surface area covered in oil, hell it might even smoke the tyres!

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Dudebusta


theres a video at www.3rotor.com that has a blue rex drifting in a circle. im pretty sure that what that guy did. maybe he drifted around a roundabout. ive seen an R34 do 12 circuits of a roundabout when i was driving to work one day

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by M5Power
I suppose if he did it for two hours, then with the right conditions he could do it for any period of time.

Like your tyres would hold out to 24hours.

 

[Robin2]

if there was cold fluid pumping over them, theyd last for ages!

 

[Robin2]

like the bandag bullet, it has water pumping over the tyres.

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by   
if there was cold fluid pumping over them, theyd last for ages!

Yeah well I wasn't thinking of that when I posted that.
If there wasn't though, they wouldn't last for ages.

 

[Robin2]

nah, theyd melt to buggery.