Michael Moreno
Mr. Brown
English III
April 26, 2017
TITLE HERE Keiichi Tsuchiya himself said, “I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way.” The roots of drifting are traced back to Japan deep in their street racing culture through their touges(mountain pass). Here in the U.S., at least, we get many of our sports from foreign countries as their people bring the tradition with them when they move here. The spectacle of drifting has been a thriving and rapidly growing sport ever since it was adopted by other countries, in the early 1960s, from its birthplace of Japan. Any sport or big event has a story deep in its origin country’s roots that can be interesting to explore. One such example of a sport
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At this time there was nothing thought of it and this action of the car was simply thought of as oversteer. This style became very popular, in fact, “Oversteer was used in the 1930s in Grand Prix races”(driftingstreet.com). Oversteer has been seen being used in early rally racing. The all wheel drive cars are going so fast they “... had virtually no grip so drifting the corners was their fastest method”(driftingstreet.com). Now, all though these techniques were being used around the world in multiple kinds of races the true origins of actual drifting are found in the Japan togues(mountain pass). In the article Japanese History of Drifting by driftingstreet.com the reader is told, “A group of racers called the Rolling Zoku set speed times, but ended up going over their tire’s grip limit while still maintaining control.” Through this it is seen that drifting was stumbled upon by going beyond the typical limits of a car and its components. The Rolling Zoku first did these races only as time trials. Drifting then became purposeful as racing and, “... goes back to the 1960s in the winding mountain roads of Japan”(driftingstreet.com). From here it can be predicted how quickly this racing spread throughout the young teens …show more content…
From the same article by driftingstreet.com it is found that, “In the 1970s they created the All Japan Touring Car Championship.” The article continues to explain that this would be the first professional event. Although through videos it seen that this was only the first pro-racing as a sport, not yet a drifting event. The sport would eventually have a big impact on the U.S., well at least to those who were interested in the car scene. The informing paper “Drifting (motorsport),” found on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drifting_(motorsport)#popularity, states, “In 1966 the first drift event outside of Japan was held at Willow Springs Raceway, in Willow Springs, California. A Japanese magazine known as Option were the host of this show to bring their passion to America.” The paper mentions that there would be two men who gave americans a demonstration of their talent. Also it would later go on to explain that, that day was iconic in getting drifting blow into a form of motorsport in America. Through research it is found that “Drifting(motorsport)” says, “Kenji Okazaki was one to give demonstrations in a 180sx. Rhys Millen and Bryan Norris were two of the American entrants at this show/event.” After its big spread into the U.S. car scene it
There can be no question that sport and athletes seem to be considered less than worthy subjects for writers of serious fiction, an odd fact considering how deeply ingrained in North American culture sport is, and how obviously and passionately North Americans care about it as participants and spectators. In this society of diverse peoples of greatly varying interests, tastes, and beliefs, no experience is as universal as playing or watching sports, and so it is simply perplexing how little adult fiction is written on the subject, not to mention how lightly regarded that little which is written seems to be. It should all be quite to the contrary; that our fascination and familiarity with sport makes it a most advantageous subject for the skilled writer of fiction is amply demonstrated by Mark Harris.
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Some say that automotive racing began when the second car was built. For over a hundred years, competition has driven innovation in the car industry, thus the industry maxim “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.” NASCAR and drag racing contributed greatly to muscle cars’ success. Muscle cars were born from these competitions as factory made race cars. Because of this, the muscle car quickly moved from a low quantity specialty item to the image of the American automotive scene. Each brand had to have one and each one needed better performance and personality than the next. The Golden Age began in the 1960s with the introduction of more performance models such as the Chevy SS Impala and the Ford Galaxy Starliner (Auto Editors).
The Fast and the furious: Tokyo Drift shows how there are somethings that people just cannot stay away from. After totalling his car in an illegal street race, Shaun Boswell is forced to live with his father in Tokyo, Japan, to avoid jury or even jail back in America. While in school he meets an automotive enthusiast named Twinkie. Twinkie introduces him to the car culture in Japan. Though not allowed to be on roads, he decides to get in a drift battle with D.K, the “Drift King”, who’s family is the backbone of Yakuza, and loses. In the process he also destroys the car given to him by one of them Yakuza members because of his lack of knowledge in drifting, the only type of racing that requires car size awareness and crazy circuits. To repay
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He thought it would be harmless too check it out. He drove in and boom it was like heaven, cars everywhere. There was a couple hundred people there all watching the current race. The cars were screeching around drifting everywhere. All Jafar was thinking was why haven't I found this earlier. For the next year Jafar practiced drifting and made it a art. He became the best and created an empire on the black market off all the money he made from racing. But no one wanted to race him anymore. He was too good and no one could beat him. So Jafar moved away from his family to los angeles where he pretended to be a rookie then blew the competition out of the water. He continued to do this for about 10 years until there was no were else to go in the u.s. So he went around the world making a name for himself but eventually at the age of 36 he crashed and died . Well that was what was reported but someone actually tampered his brakes causing them to fail in turn killing him. But they never found the killer he got away clean and unnoticed. There it was the end of the line for Jafar. The end of his
Motocross was initially developed in the U.K. from bike trials rivalries, for example, the Auto-Cycle Clubs' first quarterly trial in 1909 and the Scottish Six Days Trial that started in 1912.[1][2] When sensitive adjusting and strict scoring of trials were abstained from for a race to be the speediest rider to the complete, it was called scrambles, said to have begun in the expression, "an uncommon old scramble" portraying one such early race.[1] Originally known as scrambles hustling in the United Kingdom, as the game developed in ubiquity, the rivalries got to be referred to globally as motocross dashing, by joining the French word for bike, motocyclette, or moto for short, into a portmanteau with "cross country".[1] The principal known
Concept cars also played a part in the 1950’s. They were designed to attract the publics eye, introduce and gauge the publics reaction to new styling and engineering ideas, help attract the public to the auto dealerships where they were displayed at, and to drive car crazy kids nuts.
This outlet was racing and not just in the states like NASCAR and NHRA drag racing that, but against European companies that had dominated Motorsports in prior decades in LMP class endurance racing. It was through the maturation of domestic racing into legitimacy from its unlawful background of smugglers and street racing kids that Many manufacturers entered competition engineering purpose built race cars, from which more advanced mechanics would eventually trickle down into their road cars through a process known as homologation. Higher R&D budgets allowed this process as taking a feature from a race car and making it reliable enough for the road is no simple task. Domestic racing though was usually viewed in person rather than being broadcast like other sports. If football wasn't broadcast entertainment it would never have as many fans and viewers as it does. Ford and Ferrari rivalry throughout the 60s in the LMP race The 24 Hours At Lemans was the perfect narrative to captivate american audiences. With all of the additional money made in sales booms Ford at one point tried to buy Ferrari to grow their performance and racing division though Enzo Ferrari refused. Out of spite it became Ford’s mission to beat Ferrari at Lemans. In 1964.5/1965 Ford finished the GT40 race car that for the next four seasons in 1966-1969 at Leman would place 1rst dethroning Ferrari's dominance of the sport and proved that America was a force to be reckoned with in Motorsports. Expanding racing and the viewing of racing fully placed cars into the fabric of American culture as cars were not only transportation anymore they were also passion and inspiration struck into millions of
Tires are the most important part of race or any car for that mater. (Physics of Racing) After all they are the only thing that is contact with the ground! Tires work by having a high coefficient of friction. Some slicks have a friction coefficient grater then 1! (Physics of Racing) Typical normal street tires have coefficient of about .5 to .6 . In physics we learned that friction was equal to mew times the normal force. Since race cars are typical much lighter then normal cars, they use tricks to increase the downward force on the tires. Some drag tires run really low pressure, other drag cars tune the car to lift the front wheels to put all the weight on the rear tires. Indy cars use a wing to generate down force, and ventures to suck the car to the ground. (How to Make Your Car Handle)
Stock car racing has evolved a great amount since 1920’s when racing first started. The cause of racing was because of the Prohibition. The 18th amendment banned the production and possession of alcohol. So people had to make their own liquor, called moonshine. In order to make money from liquor, part of the job was to deliver it to their customers, but with the law enforcements trying to obey the new law, Moonshiners had to make their runs at night. They also had to use vehicles that would blend in, and would not create too much attention, but those vehicles couldn’t out run the cops, so they decided to make some slight modifications to them. After moonshiners made these slight modifications, they were able to run 120 mph on a dirt road without using headlights. Soon after, Moonshiners started to race each other on the weekends.
Sport and identity together have a unique relationship in which any regional or national place can use sport as a means to create a sense of identity. The relationship is complex and varied. Identity can be explained as understanding what or who a person or a thing is. Sport is capable of creating a feeling of nationhood and this is an important factor. It is important too for a nation to create a sense of identity but it is especially important for a regional area. For a small country to host a major sporting event is a significant achievement especially with having rivalry with bigger neighbouring countries. Nationalism can be expressed in a less aggressive manner through sport because there is a clear winner and loser; it is a clear cut way of asserting superiority of your notion over others. In this essay, one regional and one national example will be looked upon to see how they use sport to assert their sense of identity. Cricket in Yorkshire County Cricket Club will be used as a source of a regional example and rugby in South Africa will be used as a national example. We will look at the factors they used to inflict sport as a means to promote their identity and also if these identities are sustainable.
Dealing with the issue of sport and ethnology, three major factors come to mind; prejudice, racism, and discrimination. These factors span across gender, ethnic, racial, religious, and cultural groups. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss how these factors have played a part in the evolution of sport in our society. The first issue tackled in this paper will be racism in sports, followed by prejudice and discrimination.