Fast and furious (Drift, Drift, Drift)

So on Saturday the 20th of September, was Hot Import Night's NightShift event in Pleasanton. Basically Hot Import Nights (HIN) is the country's largest touring car event. With displays of numerous customized show cars, this pop culture experience also features live music, dance performances, and of course.. HOT IMPORT MODELS haha. The NightShift that I went to is a "sister event" which includes all the features of HIN, but with the addition of drift demos and bike stunts.

Cars and swooping them up is enjoyed by many, so tell me why it’s mostly associated with Asians? Like, why where there hella Asians there at HIN? How did it get to the point of us taking over the street racing? Every day life; whenever going down the street and you hear a loud ass car, “Ohhh… RICER!” like you can hella distinguish the typical swooped out Hondas with huge exhausts as “Asian”..

So at HIN is it mainly Asians because they were drifting at the event? This question led me to look up the history of drifting. According to Wikipedia, drifting started out as a popular racing technique in Japan races over 30 years ago. Kunimitsu Takahashi, was the creator of drifting techniques in the 1970s. As professional racers in Japan drove this way, so did the street racers. Keiichi Tsuchiya became particularly interested by Takahashi's drift techniques. Tsuchiya began practicing his drifting skills on the mountain roads of Japan, and this quickly became a hit and inspired many of the professional drifting drivers on the circuits today. By 1996 drifting hit California. Today, drifting has evolved into a competitive sport in Japan, Malaysia, Australia, UK, Canada, and New Zealand.

But it wasn’t even Asians who started this street racing. Street racing is reported to have originated prior to the 1930s due to alcohol prohibition in the US, and became very common after the war. I guess basically after drifting was invented by the Japanese, Asians pretty much took over the scene and when it got popular, basically all Asians supported it. HIN I guess is mainly an Asian event because when something originated in a specific race, like in this case, Japanese which automatically selects all asians, that race will PROUDLY SHOW IT OFF because everyone is trying to distinguish themselves and show what they can offer the world.

All this makes me think about Tokyo Drift and how that movie pretty much portrayed HIN with all the Asian import models dressed to add extra sexiness to the cars because what do boys like better than their girls and cars =P

HIN's flyer


swooped up TC


me and my hellokitty :D



Drifting vid