Irish Vans Drifting

biggus

They should have blanked out the reg's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Va3-NfJSRc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Va3-NfJSRc

Eoin

Fixed your youtube tags - you just put in the bit after v=
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Va3-NfJSRc

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roadwars

Thats pretty impressive

peasant

That's not drifting, that's just pulling the handbrake while going round a bend in a FWD ...but yeah ..."drifting" sounds better

L-M

peasant wrote: »

That's not drifting, that's just pulling the handbrake while going round a bend in a FWD ...but yeah ..."drifting" sounds better

I was going to say the same thing. Strangely enough, this is becoming fairly big in Japan (or so I've heard), obviously bored of drifiting. I can't remember the name of it though.

Edit: In fairness, it's fairly good camera work compared to what you would normally see.

biggus

Thats why they called it "Irish Drifting"

Anyway real drifters use the handbrake too !

biggus

Howya Limerick Man .. did ye come back for the snow ?

L-M

biggus wrote: »

Thats why they called it "Irish Drifting"

Anyway real drifters use the handbrake too !

They do, but it's not locked up for the duration of the drift :L

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biggus wrote: »

Howya Limerick Man .. did ye come back for the snow ?

I said I'd come back and say hello :P

copacetic

peasant wrote: »

That's not drifting, that's just pulling the handbrake while going round a bend in a FWD ...but yeah ..."drifting" sounds better

you couldn't properly drift around those narrow corners really anyway, they seemed to have a good idea what they were doing with the weight shift before the bend to get the back moving.

Seemed pretty safe too with the guy with camera able to see it was safe around the bends.

Tipsy Mac

Cameraman is one brave mofo

peasant

Once you've had a bit of practice (and didn't break anything in the first few failed attempts) kicking the tail out in a corner with a FWD isn't THAT difficult.

Filming it well and compiling it into a good to watch video though ...hats off

bitemybanger

pretty cool but take note of the reg's and if you ever see them on donedeal or adverts.ie, stay well away

L-M

bitemybanger wrote: »

pretty cool but take note of the reg's and if you ever see them on donedeal or adverts.ie, stay well away

In fairness, they didn't crash, and handbraking on a surface that has little or no grip won't do a whole lot of damage... I'm sure people have done alot worse things that you'll never see in the "one lady owner" cars

Volvoboy

Only thing impressive is the editing, even at that it aint all that hot.

The auld handbrake in the snow trick is brill if ya hate doing 3-point turns.

unkel

copacetic wrote: »

you couldn't properly drift around those narrow corners really anyway, they seemed to have a good idea what they were doing with the weight shift before the bend to get the back moving.

Seemed pretty safe too with the guy with camera able to see it was safe around the bends.

Was thinking the same. They even did the responsible thing by including a few mistakes at the end, just to show it is not as easy as it looks in the first few minutes. Also they're taking the same few corners over and over again, so they had a lot of practice. And on top, the verges all seem soft, so lightly hitting them at those low speeds would unlikely do any damage to the vans. Well done lads

seanybiker

Looks like dum alright.

Max Headroom

Drifting...more like dragging.....:p

Good control though...;)

stevenmu

I never ever expected to see a transporter use the pendulum effect to get the back end around a bend, fair play to the lads for that alone.

Rev. BlueJeans

Harmless fun tbh, and minimal wear on the vehicles in these conditions (unless they ditch them!).

Better than goons in car parks tearing up tarmac and pissing people off, anyway.

Seanieke

Lets hope FBD aint seen this!!

Seanieke

stevenmu wrote: »

I never ever expected to see a transporter use the pendulum effect to get the back end around a bend, fair play to the lads for that alone.

I do it in my Primastar at the moment, makes parking a doddle!!

user3

thats not drifting :D:D:D:D:D thats drifting!!!!!

ShadowHearth

cool, fair play to lads doing all this in FWD!

2qk4u

My van is RWD and Im sideways all day but not by chioce, bet they wouldnt be able to do in a RWD van..