One of his first (and most important) observations was the fact that after watching cars do disjointed donuts for two hours, the event began to drag a little. ![]() I felt like my background gave me some sort of edge all those years playing FORZA had to be good for something,” he recalls. “The minute I arrived, I realized I could drift too if I tried hard enough. Shedding their fascination for something concrete, they made plans to attend their first exhibition together. He finally got his golden ticket after joining a WhatsApp group of like-minded individuals and mutual friends. Up until 2017 he had never attended an event on his own with his brother (and his group of friends) constantly keeping him abreast of the latest developments in the scene. Unimpressed by the quality of the media they showed him early on, he decided to make a name for himself documenting the scene with top-tier footage and visuals. His fascination with the sport happened early his older brother was friends with an infamous enthusiast, Kaka, in the late noughts and this got him interested in it. Sadiq helped detail many of the challenges spectators and fans alike face when attending these events. Think about it as a form of bloodsport, you would not expect a welterweight and a light heavyweight fighter to employ the same tactics in battle simply because they are both fighters. Perhaps the inane human need for control in difficult situations has something to do with why people drift cars around corners, but all that is speculation.Īnother reason why motorsport has not quite taken off is the disparity between participating vehicles. With a healthy obsession, access to a network of multiple car owners and the best roads in the country, the question of why it began has proven redundant. Everything from supercars to luxury automobiles have been reported as far back as the early noughts. Anyone blessed with sight who has visited the Capital city is aware of the range of vehicles housed there. As previously mentioned, the affluent members of the society populated a lot of the central districts and raised their families in these communities. Regardless of the source, it is clear that car culture and its offshoot, motorsport, found the perfect home in the North. Pinpointing the direct source of inspiration for the movement taking hold in Nigeria has proven difficult everything from car racing video games like FORZA to the 2006 installation of the Fast and Furious franchise have been cited as possibilities. Dry-mouthed, I asked him why he had done it and he said simply, “because.” I had never felt that much adrenaline, and I wasn't even the one driving. Coming in hot and only slowing down to pull the handbrake were the only memories I had of the event for a month. Ten minutes later, I experienced my first ever drift at the corner of J.S. It is entirely commonplace to see two (or more) fresh-faced kids driving at 100MPH in a 60MPH neighbourhood, just because of how good the roads are. After an evening of unsupervised celebrations, we hopped back in to make our way home and that was when it happened. While I was the more precise driver, neither of us had a license so it didn't make much of a difference. The day we turned 16, his mom finally let him take her 1996 Corolla out for a spin. My earliest encounter with it came at the hands of a school friend with who I share a birthday. Some of the youngest people involved in drifting in the city got their starts as teenagers. Soon, drifting evolved into a worldwide phenomenon. As with most of the cool shit the world has received from Japan (emojis, PlayStation and sushi amongst others), the drifting technique grew in popularity amongst professional and street racers in the country and many anime and manga (again, thank you, Japan) series also started depicting this interesting sport in their stories. According to Wikipedia, when drifting, the driver intentionally oversteers with loss of traction while maintaining control of a car through the entirety of a corner a skill that takes a lot of practice – not to mention burnt-out tyres – just to perfect. ![]() ![]() The sport was born in Japan when Kunimitsu Takahashi, a famous motorcyclist turned driver, invented the skill and Keiichi Tsuchiya perfected and popularised it in the mountains some years later. While drifting might seem like a relatively new concept, a lot of people may be unaware that the art of finessing a corner with your car has been around since the 1970s.
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