Sideways?

[no such user]

the carrier bag round the number plate is sub optimal idea

cars get known, yours is now know so if someone from aldi rings up saying there is a golf going sideways you’ll be suspect number 1,
i used to get blamed for everything involving a red mk2 golf round here.

[Chris S]

I suppose if you really wanted to wind the Aldi staff up you could use a Lidl carrier bag to block the plate out! []

[ld50]

hmm ok – well that really speaks for a hired-tarmac solution doesn’t it?

so did you actually lose your license then or did it not go further than a stern telling off?

re g60syncro’s post:

>> We could learn off each other by the sound of things!!

that was where I was hoping this would start heading

[g60syncro]

Maybe not so good in a carpark with retrospect. We don’t want any rozzers on our backs!!
I’m lucky as I have Salisbury plain about 10 mins from my house so a bit easier for me.

[ld50]

So basically it looks like we need a gated, privately-owned bit of tarmac (and permission to be there) and we’re good?

Realistically no insurance would cover that and we’d probably have to indemnify the land-owner from any public-liability “misadventure” style claims and agree to remove any wreckage ourselves.

It’s a lot of requirements but still sounds a lot more appealing than any section 59 nonsense.

I guess it also needs to be away from houses so no noise complaints…and hey if we can go at night (in the wet) so much the better

Sounds like an unused multi-storey carpark would be ideal. Nice big concrete pillars to encourage accurate driving too.

google earth here I come…

[no such user]

You’re going to need a properly organised environment to do this. As DannySyncro has already outlined – the penalties for perceived ‘irresponsible’ driving are heavy and long-lasting.

Land owners generally aren’t open to this sort of thing, as you need a lot of space to do it and if they permit activities like this then they’re opening themselves to complaints from their neighbours and trouble from environmental health.

You either need an airfield of some description, an organised drift event, or the occasional sneaky roundabout.

In the mean-time these should keep you entertained:

Man plays with Boxter at german race track:

Someone who is f**king great playing with a roundabout (same person):

[ld50]

lol I’d see that as tempting fate

[ld50]

just found this… dunno if they’ll let in non RWDs but could be worth a look…

http://www.dwyb.co.uk/

[ld50]

Heading to DWYB on sat as a spectator – basically I want to see if they will let non-rwds in too and generally suss the place out.

These events are nearly every 2 weeks and they setup 5 or so different courses so as far as sideways goes this might be the jackpot. I’ll let you know after saturday

[g60syncro]

Let us know how you get on!!

[ld50]

Just got back – as far as going sideways goes it’s *exactly* what I was looking for.

They have a few different tracks set up… a couple for beginners to practise donuts & figure-eights etc, a couple fo intermediate ones and the main one.

On the smaller tracks people go on one at a time for a few mins and then the next goes on. The rotation seems pretty rapid and it certainly looked like there was plenty of track time to be had. The main track has a few people at a time and whilst there was some great drifting, there wasn’t much by way of twinning and a lot less chaining drifts than I’d expected…but that’s definitely “talking tough from the couch”… ask me when I’ve had a proper go .

It actually reminded me the bit of in mad max when all the nutters are racing round their camp and the petrol supply – great stuff

There were no fwds, and no 4WDs I could see. The staff at the tollgate didn’t seem to think there would be a problem letting non rwd cars in but I’d like to get further confirmation of that.

That said I don’t really think this is a thing for non RWDs. Unless it’s wet I’d say the tarmac looked way too grippy and was quite rough so we would enjoy very little sideways time imo. In the wet it *could* be a dramatically different story.

They had tyres on sale there too from a fiver each and fitting facilities etc. There was surprisingly little damage too – other than a bloke coming off and getting stuck in the mud I didn’t see any car or people damage.

I came away with 3 conclusions re doing thsi seriously…

– it needs to be RWD
– it needs an LSD or welded diff
– it doesn’t have to be mega powerful to chain drifts and get some decent sideways on the go, but it helps.

Basically I want to do that in the syncro so I guess now I’ve just got to work out how to make the syncro RWD

I’ll try and get some pics/vids up once I’ve got them off the camera.

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