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May 11, 2009 3:26 p.m. jcanracer New Reader

from many of the comments it looks like i never got to know the joys of driving/drifting in winter since i grew up in Jamaica. Closest thing i've come to driving in snow was maybe driving my pickup sideways on dirt roads
May 11, 2009 5:50 p.m. maroon92 UltraDork

Dirt just isn't the same as snow...very different properties.

we run Rallycross all year long here in the Detroit region, we had 4 snow events last season, and they are a BLAST. slippy slidey, and all kinds of drift angles.
May 11, 2009 6:42 p.m. mad_machine UltraDork

well, if Jamaica can have a bobsled team...
May 11, 2009 8:41 p.m. confuZion3 Dork

From when I was 16 until I was 20, I had a 1992 Mustang GT. I loved that car (and to this day, I want it back and I want to restore it). There was this intersection in Shrewsbury, PA that I had to turn left at to go home from work (Wal-Mart). I would make the turn up an ever so slight hill.

Well. EVERY time it rained I was sideways in that intersection. And not by choice--this mother berkeleyer had NO ABS, NO traction control, and lots and lots of torque. Every time I hit the little strip where the asphalt turned from "intersection square asphalt" to "Main Street" asphalt the tires would break loose. I used to have to put the car in second gear early and LIFT to get over that (at 4 miles per hour). Every god darned time.
May 11, 2009 9:08 p.m. Appleseed HalfDork

Nothing gets a tailgater off your ass like stepping out the rear on the 9C1. But driving in a town like a turdbag while being know as "that cop car guy" has a way of catching up to you.
May 11, 2009 9:13 p.m. 924guy HalfDork

If i could drive now like i did when i was a teenager, it would make Ken block look like an amateur. but sliding (now drifting) was bad and made you slow, and lost you street races, so we learned to drive the corners rather than slide them ... though i will admit the last thing i did before i yanked the engine on the 931, not so long ago, was went around a few corners slideways.