I guess I'm a little late on the trend... I guess I was in boot camp when the whole drift thing exploded (not that I'm any stranger to it, I remember being ridiculed on these very boards because I was into drifting oh so not that long ago...), but I finally caught my first event on television tonight- and I'm not sure what I think of it. For one, Rhys Millen. This guy is one driving motherfucker, he's all over every type of racing and I'm not surprised he's fucking it up in drifting, but that brings me to another point- it really seems like these runs are over before they even begin. The obvious advantage goes to the cars that put out the biggest billowing clouds of smoke, and it seems like oftentimes the whole speed and angle thing gets kind of thrown out the window when the crowd is expecting a certain person to win. I guess that's supposed to be part of its appeal, I mean there's no real ABSOLUTE DECIDING FACTOR (like, say, a finish line) so it's all up to perception, but to me it seemed like the 'judges' were just going off who they thought SHOULD win, and had no real concrete way of 'judging' anything. Kind of like the bikini contest of motorsports.

But anyway (like a bikini contest) it was fun as hell to watch, and I'm sure even more fun to participate so I'm not hating. So now I'm curious as to the general consensus of the very broad opinion base that is DragVA (in other words, what are your guys' opinions?)