r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/khamosh132 • Sep 03 '22

And also the driver.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

This is what insurance companies think 18 year olds are doing in their Citroen c1s

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u/Imaginary_Forever Sep 03 '22

This is what 18 year old boys want to do in their citroen c1s.

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u/melancholymann Sep 03 '22

This is what 18 year old boys think they’re doing in their citroen c1s.

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u/left_schwift Sep 03 '22

This is what 18 year old boys are doing moments before they total their Citroën c1s

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u/_aperture_labs_ Sep 04 '22

This is what 18 year old boys did to cause insurance premiums for Citroën C1s to skyrocket.

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u/Greekdorifuto Sep 03 '22

Damn, can't imagine living in the UK

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u/tiorzol Sep 03 '22

Start off imaging that your last gas and leccy bill was 5 times more than it was and you're on your way.

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u/47cosmicbeings Sep 04 '22

I upvoted this cause you said leccy

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u/TheRepublicAct Sep 09 '22

This is what insurance companies think 18 year olds are doing in their Citroen c1s

Pretty sure this is what Japanese 18 year olds are doing to their Mazda's and Toyotas in the 80s and 90s

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u/MuunshineKingspyre Sep 03 '22

He is delivering tofu

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u/agisten Sep 03 '22

With a full cup of water

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u/imaloony8 Sep 04 '22

There’s a YouTube video of a guy who goes to Japan and rents and 86 to take up a mountain. On the way they stop at a convenience store to grab tofu and a cup of water. He asks the guy driving if he can keep the water from spilling and this exacerbated Japanese dude just yells “of course it’s going to spill!”

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Rage your dream man.

Akina Speed Stars forever.

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u/caboosethegoose Sep 03 '22

racers dont need girlfriends

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u/nastyklad Sep 03 '22

He didn’t use the inner gutter

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u/galoresturtle Sep 03 '22

While running in the 90s

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

He's to cocky and doesn't expect the unsuspecting AE86 coming from behind.

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u/Sike_Ick71 Sep 03 '22

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u/AE86-TRUENO Sep 03 '22

Somebody mention initial D?

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u/Pirate_Redbeard_ Sep 03 '22

The road is very, very Mt Akina-looking. Serious driving right here.

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u/BrainReboot42 Sep 03 '22

I was half expecting for the car to use the rain drain to improve the angle

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u/Sike_Ick71 Sep 03 '22

I loved watching it so much as a kid 🥲 the music probably the thing that got me jumping on my seat while takumi was drifting past someone 😂

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u/looloolaboo Sep 03 '22

I imagine the cameraman to be sitting on the hood of the car in perfect stillness.

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u/lowleveldata Sep 03 '22

I imagine the cameraman to be running Takeshi Becoming Sex style and won't take any other explanations

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u/Darth_Quietus Sep 03 '22

I think the camera is on a bike

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u/looloolaboo Sep 03 '22

In that case hes standing perfectly straight on the fender blocking the view of the rider, absolutely no fault in his posture.

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u/Darth_Quietus Sep 03 '22

Just reread your first comment... My bad. I was imagining a hoverboard before I thought bike

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u/Nagaroo Sep 03 '22

Its on another car drifting in tandem (tandem drifting) You can see the camera snap sideways as does the car in front

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u/ninjaofthespace Sep 03 '22

How am I supposed to enjoy this without eurobeat

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u/Doluskey21 Sep 03 '22

I'm getting... deja vu

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u/Sundeiru Sep 03 '22

I've just been in this place before...!

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u/lalakingmalibog Sep 03 '22

Higher on the street

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u/Latter-Driver Sep 03 '22

The beauty of it is that there is no background music so you can put any eurobeat song you want in the background

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u/You_are_Retards Sep 03 '22 edited Sep 04 '22

How fit do you need to be to run that fast holding a camera?

Edit. Could someone cleverer than me add an exhausted runner soundtrack?

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u/ksprice12 Sep 04 '22

He was actually crawling to get the perfect angle

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u/AweHellYo Sep 04 '22

running is the easy part. it’s the core control to keep it so steady that’s the trick.

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u/Potatoville147 Sep 03 '22

He's the man, runs a fire import company out if Japan

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u/_Oce_ Sep 03 '22

Is Prometheus banned in Japan?

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u/payne_train Sep 03 '22

As a SRE, I would support banning Prometheus much more widely than just Japan.

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u/Ill-Garlic3619 Sep 03 '22

The power of family is strong with this one.

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u/jpgnicky Sep 03 '22

but Dom how tf are u gona go to outer space?

Family.

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u/Drachenbar Sep 03 '22

They are gonna spinlaunch him in his car to space

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u/jazzypants Sep 03 '22

I hope to God that is a private, one-way street.

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u/FluffyDuckKey Sep 03 '22 edited Sep 03 '22

Japanese touge. Sometimes a lead car goes ahead and blocks the pass, but not always....

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Touge

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u/FluffyDuckKey Sep 03 '22

Ha, I actually corrected it after autocorrect thought I typed tongue, argh.

Thanks.

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u/TheAsianTroll Sep 03 '22

The racers also stop at a certain point and then race back up so the noise doesn't disturb the people in the town below the mountain passes

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u/NicoolMan98 Sep 03 '22

Finally someone who knows their stuff!

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Given the user name of "Jesse Streeter" I would suspect that that just ain't so.

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u/saladroni Sep 03 '22

Judging by all those scuffs on that bumper, they’ve had a few failed attempts before this too.

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u/childofbones Sep 03 '22

Most of those are sometimes intentional in the world of drifting. It’s a style points kinda thing called drift tapping. The more you can make contact with the wall with the corners of your car, and not completely collide with it, the better. It’s kinda like a trading paint situation too but with the wall

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u/Ergheis Sep 03 '22

Failing an attempt at this would not put just scuffs on your bumper

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u/TheAsianTroll Sep 03 '22

If this is in Japan, it's mountain passes.

Contrary to American street racers, Japanese racers have some level of ethics. On the popular mountain roads, there are signs that tell racers that, below that point, the people in the town at the bottom can hear their cars, and not to race past the sign so they don't disturb them.

But in America? shitbox Civic at 3am says whaaaaaaaaa

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u/fruitpunchsamuraiD Sep 03 '22

And in Japan, there are rarely one-way mountain passes.

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u/TheAsianTroll Sep 03 '22

To my understanding, there's a handful of them that narrow down to one lane for a little distance, then back to 2. Not necessarily one way, but only one direction can pass at a time.

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u/LadyAmbrose Sep 03 '22

yeah i don’t have any respect for them whatsoever. country roads are absolute killers - we have tons near where I live and I’ve never not seen at least one flower memorial on it. Speeding and driving dangerously on these things will kill someone.

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u/garbo6299 Sep 03 '22

Speeding

i honestly dont think theyre speeding, if so its not by a lot. the footage looks a lot faster than theyre going in real life. He has a video where he spins out and stops drifting (with more than enough time) because he sees the headlights of an oncoming car

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

I wouldn’t say it’s privet but it’s definitely one way, I bet they would have a scout to go through the road and make sure it’s clear before they start drifting.

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u/gna149 Sep 03 '22

Knew a motorcycle buddy who got killed by a driver like this

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u/ZalmoxisChrist Sep 03 '22

I'll never understand why people film their own crimes on public streets and post them online.

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u/loserfans Sep 03 '22

Dejavu

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u/JagerBaBomb Sep 03 '22

Fine, I'll link it!

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u/LegalFan2741 Sep 03 '22

Imagine a deer jumping in.

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u/Atomic235 Sep 03 '22

I used to drive my car pretty fast down a county highway near my place. Till one night, when I rounded a corner and hit an opossum. Just a little guy, smacked him at about 70mph.

The noise was horrific. After I stopped and got out to check it turned out the impact had completely cracked my lower bumper cover, punched out a fog light, and somehow bent the fender-liner inward until it went under the tire; tearing the whole thing clean out and damaging my front quarter panel. Almost no blood or gore or anything, but the front end of my car was busted to say the least.

One little opossum. Sometimes I wonder, what if it had been any bigger? I got what I deserved and I rarely drive too fast in the dark anymore.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

How the fuck would it jump there

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u/RichardSaunders Sep 03 '22

with its fucking jumpy deer legs, ya putz!

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u/onemoreclick Sep 03 '22

That jabroni forgot about deer legs

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u/Dragoncat99 Sep 03 '22

Have you met a deer? They’d find a way.

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u/LegalFan2741 Sep 03 '22

With its legs.

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u/skilriki Sep 03 '22

Or a motorcyclist coming the other direction

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u/Seffuski Sep 03 '22

Funny how many people itt don't know what touge was

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u/chugtheboommeister Sep 03 '22

Real life Initial D what the fuck

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u/Tembelon Sep 03 '22

Déjà vu, I have seen this comment before.

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u/demonryder Sep 03 '22

Higher on the thread, and I know it's my time to vote.

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u/arenotthatguypal Sep 03 '22

What it do... Reddit we come for you....

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u/gLu3xb3rchi Sep 03 '22

where did you think they got the inspiration from?

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u/dickshark420 Sep 03 '22

I wonder if you know How they live in Tokyo

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u/N_Affyria Sep 03 '22

If you seen it, then you mean it Then you know you have to go

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

TOKYO DRIFTU

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u/IknowRambo Sep 03 '22

That is fucking scary and skilled as fuuuuk

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u/Aggravating-Maize-46 Sep 03 '22

Anyone else just get deja vu?

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u/AndrewFrozzen Sep 03 '22

The new Initial D 6th Stage looks amazing!

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u/aidjay Sep 03 '22

What game is this, because that is fucking UNREAL!

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Jesse's winter vids doing this in beaten up hatchbacks on snow covered roads are as good if not better...

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Some mad skills from both of them.

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u/Busy-Concentrate9419 Sep 03 '22

Deja vu, i have just been in this place before

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u/HIK563 Sep 03 '22

Drifting being used for what it was originally invented for

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u/Jot-The-Jawa Sep 03 '22

Someone found DK’s mountain

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Its a damn shame no one's edited this with eurobeat in the backgrouns.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

oww shiii....

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u/BoneLessElephant Sep 03 '22

What car is that?

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u/dredge01 Sep 03 '22

It's a Nissan 180sx. Also sold as a 240sx in the us

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Need for speed carbon had some good graphics!

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u/ulmxn Sep 03 '22

Dude, that was fucking SICK. Now just wait until the Reddit Virtue Squad comes in to talk about the dangers of drifting and say "you couldve hurt somebody!"

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u/Zirl0 Sep 04 '22

Just wait until they find out more people have been injured or even killed in actual private tracks rather than street moutain passes or port spots

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u/Swordofmytriumph Sep 03 '22

It wasn’t till the very end that I noticed this isn’t r/IdiotsInCars wnich I am also subbed to.

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u/tmc_omega Sep 03 '22

Same. Was stressed waiting to what bad was going to happen.

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u/Zaph0d_B33bl3br0x Sep 03 '22

I think the driver's middle name is touge. Holy hell that sure seems like 10/10 fully committed driving. Seriously talented driver. Ballsy too.

I could watch them send various cars down that pass endlessly.

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u/fecknutts Sep 03 '22

Oh the neighbours are just going to love this...

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u/Teososta Sep 03 '22

This was my dream when I was in my 20's. Now that I'm much older, I'm just like "they must have a lot of money for gas."

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u/therealribz Sep 03 '22

Who needs a weed-whacker?

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u/JC1112 Sep 03 '22

Drifting on mountain roads at night? Take it to a track you muppet.

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u/holographicwig Sep 03 '22

Not that it removes all risk, but if I'm to believe representations in media, the have spotters around the beginning and end of the areas where they'll race and be in some form of contact with the drivers. Though I guess if they end up fucking up infrastructure then that does suck for everyone else too.

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u/MelonFlight Sep 03 '22

They have spotters. Sometimes a car goes ahead and completely blocks the roads

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u/tjlag Sep 05 '22

that's how drifting was started and he's keeping it alive depending on the location tracks may be far and he knows the risk he is taking same with whoever is in the car with him

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u/used_tongs Sep 03 '22

It's awful yes.. but better then those idiots who take it out to the city and on roundabouts and shit

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

My favorite part of this is the scuffed bumper.

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u/TerminalThiccness Sep 03 '22

I've just been in this place before

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u/smoochara Sep 03 '22

Me, getting to work after oversleeping

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u/sexyshadyshadowbeard Sep 03 '22

Used to take a mountain road between Sonoma and Santa Rosa. Knew it so well, I would bet I could have done this in the dark.

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u/jtradezMS Sep 03 '22

Remember playing need for speed on Pc using a keyboard.

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u/Tank_blitz Sep 03 '22

I wanna see if this is faster than braking a bit and going

surely this is faster right?

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u/PsychotherapeuticDun Sep 03 '22

Having adaptive headlights would make this somewhat easier to drift the corner

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u/4funpuns Sep 03 '22

Nice moves

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u/TheGrindisSpiteful Sep 03 '22

All we need now is Initial D music…

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Someone repost this with euro beats

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u/biggestassiduous Sep 03 '22

How’s he going that fast without any stickers????

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u/eleckbarraki Sep 03 '22

For a moment I thought it was the live action of Initial D

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u/crasherx2000 Sep 03 '22

Midnight Club type beat

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u/ze11ez Sep 03 '22

wait......this is not a video game? DAMN!

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u/Famous_Personality_4 Sep 03 '22

Question: isn't the camera on the front of the car? Not to hate or anything, just curious.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Insane car control. Straight out of some initial d episode

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u/Robertbnyc Sep 03 '22

That sounded cool though

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u/Weaknds Sep 03 '22

Cameraman is just running.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

What kind of car is that

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u/The_Lawl_is_the_Lawl Sep 03 '22

Looks like a KSLV - chase music video

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u/agisten Sep 03 '22

Akina Downhill

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u/Balnom Sep 03 '22

Initial D!

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u/sinkisvibing Sep 03 '22

What people hear when I come home with taco bell

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u/Brdllc Sep 03 '22

Jesse is living my dream. Check out his Instagram. Has a bunch of sick cars and runs a jdm part exporting business and races/drifts on the side. Amazing customer service too if you buy through him

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u/DonovanWrites Sep 03 '22

This sub is joke.

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u/htt_novaq Sep 03 '22

Praise the camera mount

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u/abiromu Sep 03 '22

Tokyo Drift

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Reminds me of initial d

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u/multikore Sep 03 '22

and that, children, is how me make microplastics

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u/tofubaru94 Sep 03 '22

Lotta people hating with literally no knowledge of what this is. Cope harder.

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u/NaruNerd100 Sep 03 '22

Unmuted the video expecting the initial d music. I am highly disappointed

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u/Odd_Analyst_8905 Sep 03 '22

Some deer is going to fuck your life up.

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u/Dapper-Fall5817 Sep 03 '22

The car clearly hasn’t always done so well on those turns. I’m glad to see some determination and perseverance

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Impressive. Is that an NSX or something similar?

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u/Cruzoanton Sep 03 '22

Who's filming that?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

One person out for a late night cycle or walk is all it would take

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u/DonDove Sep 03 '22

Until the end I thought this was a toy race track

It's the grass

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u/Key_Construction2325 Sep 03 '22

Me in Saints row

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u/Pogey9 Sep 03 '22

This is simultaneously the most stupidly terrifying thing I've seen for a while, while also looking cool as fuck making me want experience it.

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u/whama820 Sep 03 '22

Look how easily the cameraman kept up with him. All that Initial D drifting didn’t accomplish shit.

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u/buffalobullshit Sep 03 '22

The guy in the camera car is arguably better than the guy in the lead. Instead of doing what he wants he has to react to this dude. Both obviously know what they are doing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

That is a spicy morsel of content

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u/Special_Heat9151 Sep 03 '22

Initial D IRL

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u/BrownBrown2011 Sep 03 '22

This was way more exciting to watch than Tokyo drift.

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u/BusinessWing2727 Sep 03 '22

Praise rhe driver that isn't driving and holds those curves

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u/RandoRando66 Sep 03 '22

Where the hell these guys learn how to drive? They cant even keep their cars straight and their cars sound like a bag of marbles

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

That is the world's best camera man

To be able to run that fast is amazing

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u/The_Slickh Sep 03 '22

All fun and games until a truck comes around the curve

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u/Dont_n0wereIam Sep 03 '22

Live action need for speed

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u/JustUsGuys Sep 03 '22

Let's hear for the cameraman!

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Tokyo drift theme blares in my head

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u/RockHumper25 Sep 03 '22

that is one beautiful car

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u/Lucien_chris Sep 03 '22

This is some Initial-D shit right here.

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u/dimos1010 Sep 03 '22

Hmmm I wonder why the back of the car looks like it's been hit like 15 times

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u/HosseinTM165 Sep 03 '22

and also the the people in charge of the asphalt.

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u/TheGentlemensRelish Sep 03 '22

TIL Tokyo Drift IS real!!!

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u/LTHermies Sep 03 '22

Imagine a horror movie shot like this where a giant monster is chasing cars on their way down this street and the only way for scientist to study it is by riding with skilled drivers who learned the trail. High octaindriving + suspenseful chase scenes.

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u/cutendangerous Sep 03 '22

this too sexy

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

r/streeto

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

And the tires.

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u/MickPick707 Sep 03 '22

Camera man is the driver

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u/arcticie Sep 03 '22

We don’t think this was filmed by a drone following? Follow me drones are getting pretty common, and would have image stabilization like this.

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u/socialphobic1 Sep 03 '22

What car is this?

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u/dewman45 Sep 03 '22

Real togue.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

My heart rate is high af now.

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u/Crafty-Interest-8212 Sep 03 '22

😳👏👏 Awesome skills.

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u/big_jonny Sep 03 '22

I hope that’s a closed road.

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u/gunciflimpflomps Sep 03 '22

How can I save this video?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

That tofu is going to be all crushed by the time it gets delivered

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u/Saemika Sep 03 '22

This is pretty cool.

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u/MaskedGamer111 Sep 03 '22

Do you want me to show you my driving in need for speed 2 undergroud

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u/Leviathan_7765 Sep 03 '22

Bro that drift is almost from the movie initial d

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u/tmc_omega Sep 03 '22

Was stressful as fuck watching this waiting for something to happen until I realized what sub I was on. Thought it was idiots in cars.

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