Just out of curiousity, who was influenced by Initial D? Or did some of you first get exposed to drifting by a magazine? Or are any of you hardcore road racers that have known about using drifting as a technique in racing?

I knew about drifting before Initial D...



Initial D is the only anime i actually like watching. While a little corney, it is way badass https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

I like Initial D but have be driftting for a long time. Option Vids got me into drift

for drifting. i think that was what made it a big thing

Pop culture has a huge effect. I didn't know any towns outside of my own where people raced. They all thought we were a bunch of hicks. Then the Fast and the Furious came out and every city I've been to has a racing community.

i first got into drifting 2 years ago at my first autocross, the car was induced with some oversteer into a corner, and from that point on i have been drifting.



initail D is a cool cartoon, for what it is. a cartoon. but, i love it :( sad to say... i do have every single episode on my computer https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR 5 gigs! Initial D was great, then al of a sudden it became what i like to call the "2fast2furious drifters" bible. now everyone has to have a hatchi because takumi drifts it well. or i have to get a FC because Takahashi Ryosuke has one.



yea Initial D is cool, but it has also brought rice to drifting

I liked watching initial D, it was cool, but after watching it, the amount of IDIOT fanboys was just crazy, and i noticed them more often.

I've neever seen InitalD, one of these days I'm going to download the episodes and watch it.

It's lame but nice entertainment

lame?



your crazy...whenever the music kicks in and takumi does something sick...it gets my blood pumping. it may just be a cartoon, but its still badass.