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Originally Posted by sperry

And I'm sure he did it with orange smoke billowing off the tires, with the door open, while standing on the seat.

Just because drifiting is slow and fruity doesn't mean a drift champion can't drive fast if he chooses to. It just means that he chooses to drive slow and fruity, and has the trophy to prove it.

Plus, I'm sure the other drivers were Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso, Petter Solberg, Mario Antretti, Boris Said, and Dan Gurney. Oh wait, Memo Gidley was the only other professional driver.

I'm just giving you shit because you gave that other guy shit

Originally Posted by JonnydaJibba

For the sake of argument, what are the criteria for being the fastest driver? Fastest driver on what track in what kinda car?

I just read it in the article:

Originally Posted by The Article

But as it turned out, the most important part of the HKS Evo was driver Nobuteru (Nob, for "No One Better") Taniguchi—HKS's lanky D1 drift champ who was still en route from Japan while we were trying out this Evo that he had not yet driven....

...Amazingly, Taniguchi, who had the least amount of familiarization with the course—and usually drives sideways—beat all other drivers' first runs. Furthermore, he could have retired after his first run and still finished second overall. But during his five attempts, Nob finished the day with the best times from 0 to 60 mph and in the quarter-mile (3.3 and 11.8 seconds); he was quickest on the road course (48.3 seconds), and his overall time of 102.9 seconds was three seconds better than the second-place Hondata Elise.