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I bet you dollars to doughnuts if he really did spend the day at the track it was as a spectator not actually getting out there having a go. anyone I know after a full day of circuit racing, or drifting is absolutely knackered after a days racing and you would most definitely be driving sedately home again.

I bet you dollars to doughnuts if he really did spend the day at the track it was as a spectator not actually getting out there having a go. anyone I know after a full day of circuit racing, or drifting is absolutely knackered after a days racing and you would most definitely be driving sedately home again.

Werd!

I bet you dollars to doughnuts if he really did spend the day at the track it was as a spectator not actually getting out there having a go. anyone I know after a full day of circuit racing, or drifting is absolutely knackered after a days racing and you would most definitely be driving sedately home again.

You would also have to question how a piece of sh!t help together by cable ties would ever pass scrutineering.

drifting is not so worried about the securing of body kits, though the battery would definitely have seen him sitting that one out. all in all I say he was some clown who went to see some people with actual balls have a go at drifting or racing. being too much of a pussy to participate himself he thought he would make himself feel more manly buy thrashing the nuts out of his shitbox on the way home.

He's a tool, granted.

Hope he gets what he deserves.

But what really shits me is how the journo makes it out too the average joe that the doors or bonnet were held on by cable ties and the notion of taking out a back seat is so foreign to them that it must be pure evil when majority of us do that for track day too.

The battery thing... I got nothing and I've had a battery ground itself when cornering and explode.

I bet you dollars to doughnuts if he really did spend the day at the track it was as a spectator not actually getting out there having a go. anyone I know after a full day of circuit racing, or drifting is absolutely knackered after a days racing and you would most definitely be driving sedately home again.

very true - especially at QR in summer :sweatingman:

there is a rumor at work that this was me :rofl:

All because I have like 2 cable ties on my front bar until I can fix it.

oh and because ppl that are apparently "car enthusiasts" don't know the difference between a 200sx and an R32

lol, you're the first person I thought of when I heard this on the news this morning!

Except I KNOW that you're not stupid enough to attempt this on a public road. :P

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