Tanner Foust drifting Mulholland

This may be a repost, but I did search and couldn't find it. I ran across this on youtube and thought it was worth sharing. Tanner Foust is drifting a RWD Scion down 2 miles of Mulholland Drive. One thing I like is the lack of skid marks from practice runs you see in other videos (Ken Block I'm looking at you!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHtwUr-IkHM&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Watched that a couple weeks ago. nice run!

Reminds me a lot of the Japanese anime series "Initial D", which was surprisingly good.

I'd love to see his time on this road, drifting versus "grip driving."

I wonder how many drivers came along that road in the following weeks and thought, "Some bonehead was dragging his trailer with his brakes stuck on."

"Powered by TRD NASCAR V8"

You think TRD sells that as a crate engine?

Is there a smoke generator on that thing? Sure looks like too much for tire smoke?

There's also this one: Rhys Millen: Climb Attack Brazil.

I was like the whole time. I've always been impressed by those kind of drivers/drivers. Even if i had their skills (which i totally don't) i wouldn't have their balls.

And as a kit I also watched initial D, but it was before it got popular over here, so I had to download low res japanese ones with english subtitles (which was hard to read, due to the low res thing) but this does kinda remind me of that. Not enough strange japanese music or people screaming "whoaoa!!!oaoa!!!!" in that japanese way, though.

I wonder how much faster he would be if the drifting was limited to the post apex classic 4 wheel drift.....

cghstang wrote: There's also this one: Rhys Millen: Climb Attack Brazil.

This one strikes me as odd. At no point did I ever see any black marks on the street behind the car. The video that starts this thread had very obvious marks, so it was clear it really was spinning tire smoke, but the Millen car... I'm not going to call shenanigans, but how do you get tons of tire smoke and not leave black marks on the street?!

JohnGalt wrote: "Powered by TRD NASCAR V8" You think TRD sells that as a crate engine?

Depends on the size of your checkbook, I'd wager.

If you can afford it, they'll probably deliver it in a crate...

kb58 wrote: This one strikes me as odd. At no point did I ever see any black marks on the street behind the car. The video that starts this thread had very obvious marks, so it was clear it really was spinning tire smoke, but the Millen car... I'm not going to call shenanigans, but how do you get tons of tire smoke and not leave black marks on the street?!

The first video was asphalt. The second looked like concrete. Concrete usually creates dust rather than black streaks.

Clay wrote: One thing I like is the lack of skid marks from practice runs you see in other videos (Ken Block I'm looking at you!).

Hehe . . .

You can't see it in the video but just past that hairpin there's a tree called the "Humble Tree" or something that has a bunch of car and bike parts on and around it from people who had an off there.

Whether people like his "acting" on TG or not, that guy is an amazing driver.

Me=jealous

Entertaining vid for sure.

On a slightly off-topic rant (that probably matters to nobody but myself), it annoys me that the vast majority of competition-built Scion TC's are converted to RWD. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of RWD and frankenstein conversions. However, it just feels like more of a marketing exercise when a manufacturer does it over and over, just to be able to play in those arenas. Whatever, I think I've had a slight loathing for the Scion brand from the get-go. Probably just now finding a half-ass reason to bitch about it.

I'm kinda bugged that it was filmed on Mulholland. There are enough over-aggressive idiots up there already without a few dozen additional Tanner Foust wannabes.

Matt B wrote: Entertaining vid for sure. On a slightly off-topic rant (that probably matters to nobody but myself), it annoys me that the vast majority of competition-built Scion TC's are converted to RWD. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of RWD and frankenstein conversions. However, it just feels like more of a marketing exercise when a manufacturer does it over and over, just to be able to play in those arenas. Whatever, I think I've had a slight loathing for the Scion brand from the get-go. Probably just now finding a half-ass reason to bitch about it.

I just wish they would get on with it and build an rwd tc. Oh, I forgot, they E36 M3canned it. It was the ft86.

Box flares make it awesomer.

Matt B wrote: Entertaining vid for sure. On a slightly off-topic rant (that probably matters to nobody but myself), it annoys me that the vast majority of competition-built Scion TC's are converted to RWD. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of RWD and frankenstein conversions. However, it just feels like more of a marketing exercise when a manufacturer does it over and over, just to be able to play in those arenas. Whatever, I think I've had a slight loathing for the Scion brand from the get-go. Probably just now finding a half-ass reason to bitch about it.

That is LITERALLY exactly what it is. Tanner was on Adam Carolla's car cast talking about the car and explained that Toyota felt the drift fan crowd was pretty much exactly who they are marketing to with the scion (irony?) so they decided to make one drift. With how much they had to bastardize the car, they no longer felt the need to stick with any particular engine so they said "Hey... think TRD would give us one?", and made it happen.

Early in Rhys Millen's video you can see big black stripes laid down. I think that video is the real deal, as is Faust's. Also, I have it on good authority that Millen's driving is the real deal, as is his team's ability to build a drift car.

David

why do they always have to do that stupid video game "slow down freeze frame" crap in every drifting video?

^^^^ Stolen technique from WagonAttack, ha.

I found another video on youtube with a bit of behind the scenes info on the Mulholland run. Shows the tree with car parts hanging off it mentioned above and a few other tidbits about the engine being detuned, etc.

Here, found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMh-8Khuxg8&feature=related

I sure wish he had personality for TG, but the kid sure can drive.