Initial D style Touge Battles 🔥🔥🔥
Photo courtesy Chuck Murray/Drift Appalachia
Want to live your Initial D dreams of chasing another car up a mountain? You’re in luck. Togue.US will host grip sessions on July 27 in West Virginia in addition to the drift ones with Drift Appalachia on July 25-26.
“I want to see a Civic versus a WRX going up and down a mountain,” says Edgar Sarmiento, who co-promotes Drift Appalachia with Brian Eggert. “That would be cool. If you remember some of the old Japanese videos back in the day, the Hot Version videos, it’s recreating some of that.”
All types of cars are welcome: Front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive. Both grip and drift cars are welcome to participate.
The cat-and-mouse battles involve two cars going up the mile-or-so stretch of mountain, with one behind the other. Then they switch positions. The lead car that develops the biggest gap wins.
The overall competition will be done in the style of a bracket tournament, where the winner knocks out their competitor to move on to the next round.
Interested cat-and-mouse drivers will be able to submit their ride for application, just as the drift drivers do. Cool cars are desired, and they should look good. Safety equipment will be required. You can find the requirements that drift drivers had to comply with here.
“We’re a stylized sport with drifting,” Brian says. “I’m trying to do something similar with grip.”
Initial D style Touge Battles 🔥🔥🔥
In reply to Fcyaa :
Every course will have a curb near the end where you can hook a wheel over it and pass for the win!
Looking forward to Duct Tape Battle.
You're going to need the right soundtrack, too:
Keith Tanner said:In reply to Fcyaa :
Every course will have a curb near the end where you can hook a wheel over it and pass for the win!
Looking forward to Duct Tape Battle.
That's so first season. The last two or three seasons, he turned his headlights off so his opponent couldn't see him to block him.
This, I feel, was Takumi starting to fully emulate his father. Notice that Bunta always, always had his eyes closed, even while driving. 
(I never actually watched MF Ghost, but apparently all of the Initial D cast are sort of in it, as spectating adults. Takumi suffered a severe back injury as a stage rally driver and became a driving instructor for some big racing school in England. Not sure if he had any speaking parts, but he was seen and mentioned, and apparently had taught the protagonist)
I never made it past the first season, I think. Maybe the second? Let me check my Netflix DVD history from 2005 :) The combination of the same stunt to win every race and the terrible character design (compared to eX-Driver) turned me off.
But this is a pretty fun idea for an event.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
First season also had the worst CGI. It was a lot more palatable by 4th Stage, and I thought the races were better.
3rd-4th stage was the best of Initial D, the earlier stuff wasn't nearly as good.
MF Ghost takes what was starting to go wrong with Initial D towards the end and turns it up to 11, on top of a lot of qualitative backsliding. This video covers a lot of it.
Also I realize that MF Ghost isn't really supposed to be a work of science fiction, but it takes place in the future, and if you think about it as a work of science fiction, it is a total clusterberkeley. I lost interest in it like 1 season in, but I hardly saw a reason to put the story in the future at all. They could've said it took place in our present-day reality and that not only wouldn't break anything I've seen so far, but would actually make more sense.
In reply to j_tso :
Agreed. The CGI in the early seasons is pretty clunky, though I always felt like it was part of the charm.
Now this is something I could get into. Gotta love it.
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