128i drifting and driving on skidpad

[wrongprotocol]

There's a police training skidpad nearby and I thought I'd go have some fun on it. It was a rainy morning so it was like glass - which is kind of fun but almost hopeless to control over 20 mph. So this video is a little over 2 minutes of what almost seems like slow-motion drifts.

I brought a 3-inch orange cone I got from a skip barber class I took, and I found a dirty old cone @ the skidpad, so I was doing figure-8s around the two of them. As the gruond dried up and i started gaining traction again, I ran over the smaller one. oops.

As it dried up i started going a bit faster but i didn't want to chew my tires.

I'm not claiming im a "drifter" or whatever, it was just fun, and i think the car looks elegant sliding across the pad.

"A sqeaking tire is a happy tire. A screaming tire is no longer happy"
-one of the Skip Barber Performance Driving instructors

[ruffstik]

Man...that looks fun!

[wrongprotocol]

it was awesome,

the only bad part was the car was so disgustingly dirty in every possibly place, it took for ever to clean. there's a part in the video where i panned across the driver side so you can see the filth,..but it was everywhere!

if you notice in a few scenes, I had my windows open.....TERRIBLE idea, the back seat was all speckled with dirty skidpad water.

nothing that didn't come off with a damp cloth though. Leatherette cleans very easy. and the dirt on the outside of the car, soapy car mit took it right off!

good as new now though!

[FR305]

ghey

[italiantank26]

that looks freaking awesome

[FOXYCaymanS]

Haha, glad you had fun...
There's an open one somewhere in Orlando, I'll have to ask around...

[1013mm]

hmmm.... would have been cooler if you were going faster into turns.

[wrongprotocol]

yeah, it was so easy to spin out on that pad, it actually almost felt like hydroplaning, the wheels would never gain grip again if you were going a hair too quick, so i had to keep it slow.

There's an open one somewhere in Orlando, I'll have to ask around...

yeah that'd be great, thanks a lot. I feel like im gonna get in trouble using the police one - I asked an officer there the day i filmed that and he said "sure, just dont flip your car" and then he drove away. I'm pretty sure it's Not open to the public though.

[Miami135i]

that looks like a lot of fun

I wish there was something like that near my house

[bimmerboy]

That looks like a ton of fun! poor tires tho haha. At some points I think I could even see the E-LSD working, neat stuff

[Garduna]

haha just as long as you had fun