Drifting as a D1 professional

D1 is an amazing thing. It can make literally stop the aging process. Now we don’t know if it’s the fan friendly atmosphere or pure senselessness of wasting so much wide rubber, but this professional drift phenomenon has the ability to turn 35 year old men with their children into kids again, getting autographs from the professional men themselves, or just losing your hearing while watching the exotic machines idle in the pit. Seasoned veterans, there since the beginning like Nomuken and Ueno sit proudly next to their Skyline and Soarer.

Laughing with their crew, taking photographs with fans, even taking a smoke break. These are two 40+ year old men who are having the times of their lives. Earning a living traveling the world, doing what most people are arrested for and are adored. They are showmen, but unlike the tired traveling salesmen, these middle aged men look younger than some of those guys with their kids. It’s the fountain youth in a cloud of tire smoke, or is professional drifting possibly the best midlife crisis ever?