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Originally Posted by Y0SH
Im still trying to understand this. You are flying out to japan, buying a car and a year pass to the track and storing the car in japan and go back a few times a year to drift? This is taking an already expensive hobby to a whole new level of shit Ill never be able to afford.
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You understood it correctly.
Honestly, it's cheaper for me to book a flight, hotel, and rental car, go drift for two weeks, and then come back to the US than it is for me to drift in the US.
Seat time:Cost ratio is far better in Japan.
Think about it...all the tracks in the US focus on power and steering. Foot to the floor and steer around a track. You destroy tires because your wheel speed is far greater than your cars actual speed.
In Japan, the tracks are designed to show technique in braking and drift (entering a corner sideways - not just mashing the gas pedal mid corner). This means that your car speed and wheel speed are very close which reduces tire wear. So, not only am I only going through one pair of tires for a whole days worth of driving, I'm also learning a much better, and faster, driving technique.
IMO, 100% worth it and I've learned more in Japan than I ever did drifting in the US.
I'm actually moving there this upcoming year.
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Originally Posted by Feast Japan
Great vid man. So good to see people exploring Japan, tohoku region more importantly. Andy has a proper program going on at Ebisu, we are all very lucky he's there.
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Ebisu is really great, and the guys at PV are second to none. It's amazing what they've done.