The Thrill of Drifting: A Day at the Track

As I sat behind the wheel of my car, I couldn't help but feel a mix of excitement and nerves. It was my first time drifting, and I had heard stories about the thrill and challenge of navigating tight turns at high speeds. My friend Kevin helped me take the hood off the car for cooling, and we were ready to hit the track.

As we began our lap around the track, I quickly realized that this wasn't going to be as easy as I thought it would be. The e-brake worked like a charm, saving my front bumper from damage when I lost control of the car. However, I soon discovered that the car's angle didn't quite cooperate with me, making every turn a struggle. Despite this, I was determined to have fun and learn as much as I could.

One of the most challenging aspects of drifting was the transition between turns. When I tried to transition from one turn to another, I found it difficult to snap the car into the correct position. It took me a few attempts, but eventually, I started to get the hang of it. I learned that the key was to let the car do its thing and not try to counter-steer too much. With practice, I began to feel more confident behind the wheel.

As we continued our lap around the track, my friend Kevin provided valuable feedback and encouragement. He reminded me to take deep breaths and relax, as the stress of driving could make it difficult to maintain control of the car. His advice was spot on, and I found myself feeling more at ease with each passing minute.

Despite some minor mishaps, such as a scuff on my front bumper from a tire mark, we managed to complete our lap without any major incidents. As we pulled over to catch our breath, I couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment and excitement for the next event. My friend Kevin commented that I was doing great, especially considering it was my first time drifting.

Looking back on the day's events, I realized just how much I had learned. Drifting is not as easy as it looks, and there's always room for improvement. However, with practice and patience, I'm confident that I'll be able to master the skills needed to navigate even the tightest turns. The real challenge now is to put all of this knowledge into practice before the next event.

For now, I'll take some time to work on a few areas of my car that need attention. A bigger radiator and more efficient fans should help prevent overheating issues, while angle mods could improve my overall drifting experience. Additionally, I've been meaning to address an exhaust leak and buff out my paint – it's worth the extra effort if it means improving my drift skills.

As I reflect on our day at the track, I'm reminded of just how much fun it can be to push myself outside of my comfort zone. Drifting may not be for everyone, but for those who enjoy the thrill of speed and the challenge of mastering new skills, it's an experience like no other.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ensup guys so um I stayed up like all last night I got like five hours of sleep I was up till three and now I'm up at eight but I finally got the car ready um today's my first drift event I'm ever going to I'm really nervous but I'm super excited more than ever but anyway so even though I just replaced the thermostat for somehow I went bad again so I replaced that again last night and a car appears not to be overheating so I think we are all good I'm running a little bit late because I have to borrow a helmet from a friend but I'm just gonna try to film everything throughout the day and hope you guys enjoy it also shout out to these sweet drifts bears I'm all loaded up with like my tires and back and whatever I've got four spare sets of wheels and tires so well not for set but like for individual ones so I hope that'll be good I made it here in one piece uh stoked so I might go for a kind of ghetto rig to the helmet because it's not my helmet hopefully the footage looks half-decent I'm about to go on the track it's hot I'm excited I'm nervous probably going to drive through the track once just so I can get an idea of what it's like so my first lap I did way better than I thought I would but my GoPro kept hitting everything so I'm not trying to move it in case you're wondering I'm not using my ebrake I'm just clutch kicking because my you brake doesn't really work that well I got a little cocky that last one came a little too hot and spun article plans now we're going to a different track which is an oval track I've never even seen it before so I have no idea what to expect that one's scary yeah you don't got it all but it's fun though it's easier than that because I got more high in power that was really scary but that track is sick my car has got a lot of high end power so I could really like actually chill with it on that track which was really fun try not come all the way off try and stay on the boggle because your your compliment okay so kind of stay on it a little more constant come on swift a little okay try and commit don't know if it that's fine Danzig yeah so fun climbs on fire fresh right what what's your rear tire for no idea ah no idea no idea no I just bought the wheels off some guys alright well let's take a little bit low so you find a little bit more but yeah just commit is there a compressor here is there compressor here was there a compressor here to do with the trailer my house okay yeah thank you alright guys so I tried a new mic setup and I'm gonna try talking mid-drift so we'll see how this goes I'm back on the skid pad after getting used to the oval track we'll see shut up the group can I was embarrassing all right so I figured out the diss tracks a little bit slippery er than the oval obviously so my goal is going to be the not spin-out Oh fail any advice for home grip on that big corner out there I had a grip yeah like my friend my friend tires keep pushing through they're slipping too much yeah like I'm just pushing straight fresh rattle I probably check that I didn't I didn't check the fronts check the front if I lower it a little bit it should get me over my drip right you could probably help it okay yeah I only notice it on that corner though that tracks fine I get so much straggler what is your name I'm Nick Adam I tried the nice new tank you oh do you that thing's awesome maybe try a little harder like kicking it back yeah yeah yeah you got to make sure like you enter sort of early so you don't end up going out that far got it I'll try all right so I got less pressure my tires now we'll see if that helps my goal is to not spin out let's try this again all right not terrible they said I was coming in a little too hot so I'm gonna try to go out a little bit slower as everyone's trying to help me out which is really cool I don't know everyone so nice I love it all right so this is my favorite track it's so intimidating at first so fun honey close hairs overheating coilovers Isis Isis yeah track to the right like make him stiffer yeah okay I think there might be maxed out already but I think they might be max out really I'll check but if so then they're all probably all the way collapse all the way down yeah okay thank you I think if I keep having overheating issues I'm just gonna take the hood off I was able to stiffen them up a little bit yeah that was awesome hey you gotta get some wax and get that off and you guys what happened it did I thought I heard something oh no oh no oh no that was awesome my tire blew up I got my friend Kevin help me take the hood off for cooling all right so this is gonna be my last one on this ride for a while it's okay it's okay all right back to the track guys yeah yay Adam did it Adam did the corner yay Adam Adam Adam that's me I like doing corners oh I love small Oh somebody call the police I left smoke Mukesh move is like a like a laugh that e-brake saved my front bumper I think I'm getting worse as time goes on I'm having fun that's what it's about like doesn't work at all huh I mean it kind of work to rest enough not as easy as I thought the bride yeah what I would suggest yeah would be like get a hydro well yeah and definitely me to working me break yeah especially for a tight track like this yeah yeah and angle mods would be nice too yeah yeah I haven't driven a car with Stocking going over model doesn't make a huge difference oh yeah yeah cuz that's why that's the only reason why I spun out because I'm not used to driving a car without angle got a key just your clutch pedal what it's super engaging a point super low that split second that it takes you just to get further down might delay your clutch kick and that's why you might not be hitting a certain turn correctly yeah blame it on the pedal damn everything on you Conner's near when you're in the turn yeah yeah and when you're at a point like this when I fell out of booze that you just clutched it righto so you see how I'm like yeah you have to transition you have to spin the wheel faster than when you're getting towards the turn yeah have some fun I need an earache I use the ebrake like you did and it helped so much I feel good on that it's just the transition up when you transition after that you're snapping it around like if you're coming around Eastern yeah to kind of like not counter-steer as much i just i let the car just do it's there and then so pretty much once you transition there after you slow down you got to get back on it like pretty good to make around that turn okay it makes you laugh it nine minutes yeah keep going make sure you kick it out yeah like a decent amount before you start counting like as your countersteering okay well then call it cool down we're good close but no cigar no I thought you had it on my so did I you can still counter see it a little too late got it tap back to tun try to like cruise on that way so you can try to get four times up whoo love did I do any damage really Oh what I hit a big tired big drag yeah but what I hit with it you're like the door and you got a little more higher scale for this one oh I thought I hit my front bumper oh no it's gonna come out you did what you have a scuff on everything stayed on okay you down I'm just gonna leave my car running is this automatic yep right yeah all right yeah yeah yeah yeah yep oh my god it's so quiet I know is that a hybrid I feel so insane for these fire papa well I was in a 360 yeah so the car still in one piece it's got it's got a little bit of it's good needs a little bit of buffing out so the day is done um I can't explain how much fun it was finally getting to drift this car I had a blast I got a little couple scuffs from tyre marks but ultimately I just couldn't be more stoked and how nice everyone was and how helpful everyone was especially it being my first time it was like a very welcoming community which I really didn't expect so huge thank you to everyone that helped the next events in a month but I'm actually going to be in Connecticut so I don't think I'll be able to make it so hopefully I'll be able to go to another one in two months and learn more before the next event there's a couple of things that I actually want to do with the car so it'll it'll be nice that I have a bit of time before the next event I need to stop the overheating so one do bigger fans a better radiator maybe like a Koyo or something want to do some angle mods get more angle and I really need a knee break that works so maybe I'll make a video and like turn into like a little bit of project I also have like an exhaust leak and bunch of stuff I got a buff out of my paint but it's worth it unless you're on holiday for place to do a couplesup guys so um I stayed up like all last night I got like five hours of sleep I was up till three and now I'm up at eight but I finally got the car ready um today's my first drift event I'm ever going to I'm really nervous but I'm super excited more than ever but anyway so even though I just replaced the thermostat for somehow I went bad again so I replaced that again last night and a car appears not to be overheating so I think we are all good I'm running a little bit late because I have to borrow a helmet from a friend but I'm just gonna try to film everything throughout the day and hope you guys enjoy it also shout out to these sweet drifts bears I'm all loaded up with like my tires and back and whatever I've got four spare sets of wheels and tires so well not for set but like for individual ones so I hope that'll be good I made it here in one piece uh stoked so I might go for a kind of ghetto rig to the helmet because it's not my helmet hopefully the footage looks half-decent I'm about to go on the track it's hot I'm excited I'm nervous probably going to drive through the track once just so I can get an idea of what it's like so my first lap I did way better than I thought I would but my GoPro kept hitting everything so I'm not trying to move it in case you're wondering I'm not using my ebrake I'm just clutch kicking because my you brake doesn't really work that well I got a little cocky that last one came a little too hot and spun article plans now we're going to a different track which is an oval track I've never even seen it before so I have no idea what to expect that one's scary yeah you don't got it all but it's fun though it's easier than that because I got more high in power that was really scary but that track is sick my car has got a lot of high end power so I could really like actually chill with it on that track which was really fun try not come all the way off try and stay on the boggle because your your compliment okay so kind of stay on it a little more constant come on swift a little okay try and commit don't know if it that's fine Danzig yeah so fun climbs on fire fresh right what what's your rear tire for no idea ah no idea no idea no I just bought the wheels off some guys alright well let's take a little bit low so you find a little bit more but yeah just commit is there a compressor here is there compressor here was there a compressor here to do with the trailer my house okay yeah thank you alright guys so I tried a new mic setup and I'm gonna try talking mid-drift so we'll see how this goes I'm back on the skid pad after getting used to the oval track we'll see shut up the group can I was embarrassing all right so I figured out the diss tracks a little bit slippery er than the oval obviously so my goal is going to be the not spin-out Oh fail any advice for home grip on that big corner out there I had a grip yeah like my friend my friend tires keep pushing through they're slipping too much yeah like I'm just pushing straight fresh rattle I probably check that I didn't I didn't check the fronts check the front if I lower it a little bit it should get me over my drip right you could probably help it okay yeah I only notice it on that corner though that tracks fine I get so much straggler what is your name I'm Nick Adam I tried the nice new tank you oh do you that thing's awesome maybe try a little harder like kicking it back yeah yeah yeah you got to make sure like you enter sort of early so you don't end up going out that far got it I'll try all right so I got less pressure my tires now we'll see if that helps my goal is to not spin out let's try this again all right not terrible they said I was coming in a little too hot so I'm gonna try to go out a little bit slower as everyone's trying to help me out which is really cool I don't know everyone so nice I love it all right so this is my favorite track it's so intimidating at first so fun honey close hairs overheating coilovers Isis Isis yeah track to the right like make him stiffer yeah okay I think there might be maxed out already but I think they might be max out really I'll check but if so then they're all probably all the way collapse all the way down yeah okay thank you I think if I keep having overheating issues I'm just gonna take the hood off I was able to stiffen them up a little bit yeah that was awesome hey you gotta get some wax and get that off and you guys what happened it did I thought I heard something oh no oh no oh no that was awesome my tire blew up I got my friend Kevin help me take the hood off for cooling all right so this is gonna be my last one on this ride for a while it's okay it's okay all right back to the track guys yeah yay Adam did it Adam did the corner yay Adam Adam Adam that's me I like doing corners oh I love small Oh somebody call the police I left smoke Mukesh move is like a like a laugh that e-brake saved my front bumper I think I'm getting worse as time goes on I'm having fun that's what it's about like doesn't work at all huh I mean it kind of work to rest enough not as easy as I thought the bride yeah what I would suggest yeah would be like get a hydro well yeah and definitely me to working me break yeah especially for a tight track like this yeah yeah and angle mods would be nice too yeah yeah I haven't driven a car with Stocking going over model doesn't make a huge difference oh yeah yeah cuz that's why that's the only reason why I spun out because I'm not used to driving a car without angle got a key just your clutch pedal what it's super engaging a point super low that split second that it takes you just to get further down might delay your clutch kick and that's why you might not be hitting a certain turn correctly yeah blame it on the pedal damn everything on you Conner's near when you're in the turn yeah yeah and when you're at a point like this when I fell out of booze that you just clutched it righto so you see how I'm like yeah you have to transition you have to spin the wheel faster than when you're getting towards the turn yeah have some fun I need an earache I use the ebrake like you did and it helped so much I feel good on that it's just the transition up when you transition after that you're snapping it around like if you're coming around Eastern yeah to kind of like not counter-steer as much i just i let the car just do it's there and then so pretty much once you transition there after you slow down you got to get back on it like pretty good to make around that turn okay it makes you laugh it nine minutes yeah keep going make sure you kick it out yeah like a decent amount before you start counting like as your countersteering okay well then call it cool down we're good close but no cigar no I thought you had it on my so did I you can still counter see it a little too late got it tap back to tun try to like cruise on that way so you can try to get four times up whoo love did I do any damage really Oh what I hit a big tired big drag yeah but what I hit with it you're like the door and you got a little more higher scale for this one oh I thought I hit my front bumper oh no it's gonna come out you did what you have a scuff on everything stayed on okay you down I'm just gonna leave my car running is this automatic yep right yeah all right yeah yeah yeah yeah yep oh my god it's so quiet I know is that a hybrid I feel so insane for these fire papa well I was in a 360 yeah so the car still in one piece it's got it's got a little bit of it's good needs a little bit of buffing out so the day is done um I can't explain how much fun it was finally getting to drift this car I had a blast I got a little couple scuffs from tyre marks but ultimately I just couldn't be more stoked and how nice everyone was and how helpful everyone was especially it being my first time it was like a very welcoming community which I really didn't expect so huge thank you to everyone that helped the next events in a month but I'm actually going to be in Connecticut so I don't think I'll be able to make it so hopefully I'll be able to go to another one in two months and learn more before the next event there's a couple of things that I actually want to do with the car so it'll it'll be nice that I have a bit of time before the next event I need to stop the overheating so one do bigger fans a better radiator maybe like a Koyo or something want to do some angle mods get more angle and I really need a knee break that works so maybe I'll make a video and like turn into like a little bit of project I also have like an exhaust leak and bunch of stuff I got a buff out of my paint but it's worth it unless you're on holiday for place to do a couple\n"