Initial D

If anyone is interested in joining an Initial D Club I am starting one... PM me if your interested we need 10 merabers in order to start the club...
 
Initial D is one of my favorite animes as well. I've probably rewatched it more than any other series. I never saw the movie, but I did see the anime movie Extra Stage (They kind of went over the top in the fan service department though).

It's really interesting how they manage to fit in so much technical knowledge while still keeping it interesting. Even going around the net, not too many people know about Shingo's Left-Foot Breaking technique.
 
I love Initial D, being a car nut, because most of the tech-talk is pretty accurate. It's great to watch if you understand the science behind it all and also if you don't know much about cars/drifting cause it gives you a pretty good basis to improve your knowledge (just don't watch it once and decide you know everything there is to know about the subject :-s).

The whole left foot braking thing was a new thing for me from the series (and it's been a while since I saw the series, so if I'm slightly off please forgive). It's a good way to transfer the load to the front of the car to overcome the understeer problem that comes with driving most FF cars hard, but I would think that the stress that it would put on the front brakes, especially if it was done down hill over an extended period of time, would lead to some pretty high front brake temperatures and probably a fair bit of brake fade.
 
Well i'd say this anime is underrated here but not in the other forums i visited. The reason why this anime is not discussed in many forums is that it is too focused on a particular field, e.g. cars. Also, although the anime is very good, the way ppl try to imitate drifting (e.g. in real Gunma roaRAB) caused the local officials to put many speed bumps in corners depicted in the Initial D manga or anime.

Yes there is a Extra stage after 4th stage, and it's really a quite loose-ended love story. The only pleasure of watching is that you can see the Slieighty recreated in modern 3D model.

Oh, btw, although some physics in Initial D were theortically true, some are exaggerated or downright dangerous. Those left foot braking or gutter cornering technique etc, they might cause brake failure or even caraber/wheel/suspension damage and roll over.

I found the between-drift/grip technique most believeable, yet hardest to achieve. I play a game called LFS and it is achieveable, but in real life who knows. Don't trust the anime, those drifting scenes may last about 10 seconRAB in the anime, but in real life it's only around 1 to 2 seconRAB.
 
This.

And oh yes, for future reference, IRL, refined grip technique is always going to be faster than a drift technique. Don't let Initial D fool you lol. Drifting is more or less just for show. D:
 
That is why rally is so fascinating, because it gives hope to those who believe "drifting smokes grippers oooer yeah!"........which in turn when they get a car and try to drifting their shopping carts, they would hit the inevitable tree and stuff their cars. Some people really believe drifting can be faster than gripping and most of them in fact more or less watched Initial D before.....
 
Whilst "grip" driving is faster through most corners, there are a few types of corners where it is quicker to drift. This is the reason the original DK, Tsuchiya, started doing it in the first place.
 
Well, to quote Tsuchiya himself: "I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but the most exciting way."

Besides, power sliding is the technique you see utilized most, which is very different from a showy drift.
 
True, but Tsuchiya seems to drift around almost every corner now-a-days. In my post I said some corners but I should have added surfaces as well. The rally boys have been doing it for years, they just never coined the phrase.




Power sliding comes from the driver not being able to properly put the power down when exiting a corner. I can't think of a slower way to exit a corner (unless you reverse). I wouldn't call it a technique as much as calling it a lack of technique.
Any inbred neanderthal can power slide.
 
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