http://www.urbanracer.com/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=2056

pretty gh3y.

D1 > NASCAR by about 11ty-billlion to 1

thats going to be sooooo cool! GO KASEY KHANE!

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I can see the NASCAR crowd really getting into it.

yeah, NASCAR fans are fuggin crazy!
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actually, drift fans are pretty damn crazy too...

hahahahaha! can nascar drivers turn a steering wheel fast enough to drift? and in both directions?

When I FOERST heard about it... I said WALL - thinking the Nascar drivers would end up there. After I read up on it a li'l... I think it'll be interesting. A lot of the drivers who are doing it started out dirt track racing... so they've got experience. I think we may be a li'l surprised at the outcome.

Should be cool, IMO.

haha, i got a press release about this at work today...i kinda wanna go watch, i suspect it will at least be fun and somewhat interesting .

wow D1 is really tapping into the american market sounds kinda weird but but the exposure is good.

here's an old picture of tony stewart


kasey kahne also got his start in midget racing.

here's what alot of midget drivers move up to


they had a dirt track an exit down from where i go to college. they had a pure stock class which means you take the interior and glass out of pretty much any car, weld in a roll cage or bolt on a door bar, and you slide around a dirt oval while drunk people yell at you. man it would've been fun.

My big issue is that the event sponsorship will largely come from NASCAR/NASCAR sponsors. These guys will twist whatever they have to do to make the NASCAR guys come out on top. They would not let the drifters come out and make them look bad. If it were even possible, they wouldn't propose the idea. This means the image projected will be that NASCAR drivers are better than everyone else and, more importantly, drifting is easy. So, I guess we'll see what happens, but I don't think I like where this is going.

You raise a good point, there sir.

NASCAR sponsors>Drifting sponsors

and please don't try to argue that, because you can't.

I see this as a last gasp for D1 trying to make it into mistream middle america. drifting is a niche market.

this is just what the sport needs it to get more expensive than it already is.