Is God Hand's technique sound?

Naw, the point of Initial D was that no matter how hard you work at something there will always be an autistic child who is better than you.

As nearly proven by the finale when Takumi meets Takumi Mk II.

>weebshit

Like /a/ is going to know what an engine even is.

Not that Veeky Forums is much better.

it's a fucking anime. Do you even drive?

Takumi should have lost that race to be honest. It would be a better story then him struggling to win against someone who is basically him from before season 1. It would have been poignant and show that it's not about obsessing to win. It's really obvious who the Initial D kids are at my local track, they'll have some Japanese sport trim shitbox that is nearly stock or a Miata, when they don't land first top of the class they get really broken up and salty

So they're the lvl 1 posers like Akina Speed Stars.

Take you're fucking gullible weeaboo ass back to .

We have enough fucktardedness here already.

>Take you're

>We have enough fucktardedness here already

Clearly.

>not getting the meme

Get the fuck out faggot

ignoring weeaboo shit don't rest your hand on the shifter, it wears shift forks faster than shit

FF can have situational advantages over FR (see; Tsukuba) where it can plow through corners without fucks to give, but you won't be putting a Civic sideways.

It makes even less of a difference at stoplight racing. A Prelude shits on your Miata there, and the Prelude is made a whipping bitch of by a Mustang. The Mustang is then spitroasted by a "tastefully modded" Evo and STi, which in turn can be bent over and deflowered by someone in a Mustang with a more powerful engine.

The Mustang is eventually dethroned by a twin turbo Lambo, which is shortly chopped by a 1,000 horsepower Civic dressed up as a Bugatti.

Misspelling "your" is a meme now? Okay.

Less, they're more Itsuki level of ignorance and wanting to shit on others. Full on FF is shit, I'm a true enthusiast , meanwhile they get dominated by civics while they putt around in miatas. Worse is the ones who have gone full Takumi and "honed their skills" doing delivery and have actually modded their cars, but they can't drive worth shit. Then you have Driver autists who don't talk to anyone or interact. They get their time and ranking and leave.
Stock Preludes actually do really well.

>you won't be getting a civic sideways
youtube.com/watch?v=57JVPbXXVW0

>now

Jesus Christ newfag, kill yourself

takumi losing to not-shinji ikari would've made it like a passing of the torch sort of thing too. the way he won wasn't even unreasonable, but all the asspull wins before it devalued it the point of irrelevance.

Newfag and kys, you've just got the whole arsenal, don't you. You should be proud.

ruining the FF stage by literally stray animal just so takumi would win against a better car and better driver was one of the worst asspulls

also it kind of killed the underdog narrative when takumi was not only a god among teenage drop outs and early 20 year old losers but also had a formula 1 engine and tuned suspension

HEY I DRIVE AN S2K AND THAT MAKES ME THE BEST

it was the car, god hand was shit and anyone who can drive a car could beat that pos ae86 with an s2000.

shingo would have easily beaten itsuki

Ask Pepsifag

i'm right though
drivetrain makes a difference, but it cant make up for a large difference in skill

The level of skill you would need to drive with one hand is pretty high, and if you were at that level of skill it would still be a handicap on how good you could drive with both hands on the wheel. There's a reason the really high end performance cars come with paddle shifters instead of a stick, your hands should always be near the wheel.

Two drivers of equal skill = RWD win.
Really good driver o
In FF vs good driver in really good car = RWD win
Really good driver in rwd vs good driver on really good FF car = RWD win
Ask
Pepsifag

lol whatever man
why would i ask pepsifag? he's just a trucker

Pepsifag knows the truth about FF and RWD

>Shinji-ikari
Kek

Ok let me tell you about not crossdressing arms when steering and steering one hand at a time. Its a habit thats good to have.
Also em2 cant turn for shit at low speeds with its MacPherson struts but i can turn fully with one hand easy. Most things with powersteering are that way. Oh and as long as you arnt putting weight on the shifter when keeping your hand there your fine.
>Forgetting about shingo.
Also oversteering can be used as a positive.
This might actually be true. That and life us filled with failing/failed relationships.

corey is this you?
youtube.com/watch?v=cx1tTULjRhs

everything in intial d is BS if you tried most of that stuff on a actual road you would dead or severely injure. thats fact. no race driver steers with only one hand on the wheel unless he is a complete cock. especially once any car is sideways you need all concentration to focus and maintain control of the car.

Hello?

he looks even more like him in the manga

Hi.

the POS AE86 had a racecar engine dude.

Anyone else experience this weird thing where they started cheering for Takumi's opponent?

>team emperor goes on an expedition to smash locals on their home turf
>villains

>project d goes on an expedition to smash locals on their home turf
its ok when the main characters do it

Project D were LITERALLY the rich kids from another neighborhood going around pushing all the people's shit in.

Didn't Richard Burns race with only one hand? In the WRC?

But they had the better ... attitude?

Ion't know.

youtube.com/watch?v=NtdOU-yyZ_w

There's a driver here who drives with one hand. Coincidentally he's also driving an S2000

Not really honestly, accepting the civic and godhand victories as full legit wins and not even trying to set up rematches with less extenuating circumstances is kinda shitty. Not exactly completely unsporting but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that your hero protagonists should be so quick to accept.

Save for the evo dudes, all the fucking time since takumi started winning from full on asspulls, as in vs. Mx5 NA onward

Fuck I'm tired, I thought that read "animal".

Have you tried driving with one hand and masturbating with the other?

Same logic.

Yes but I got the clove lodged in

this is true
I think 2nd stage takumi beat emperor in akina then says it didn't feel like a win goes rematch and blows engine
later on beats old man who's puking because downhill run turned into an endurance run yeah no rematch here

This, takumis car was pretty much a street legal n2 car at that point.
N2 cars are fast as shit

(OP)
Search Timo Salonen, he steer his car with one hand
The concept behind the one hand steering is that, always keeping 17% of your wheel surface in contact with the ground for it's the most efficient state of drifting
If you can manage that with two hands then no need to force yourself to learn to steer with one hand

As for the shifter, what this annon said

Because it's FR

you did not even mention the proper scenario at hand, being good driver in ff vs shit driver in fr

well yea they were not complete dicks to everyone like both of the lan evo crews

this

the putting weight on the shifter is what causes the problem of wear

it was kept free for smoking fags probably, he is a very heavy smoker

I haven't watched the episode, but I can tell that that "technique" is complete bullshit. In fact, professional racecar drivers don't do this. If anything never taking your hand off the shifter will make you slower since now you have one hand not doing much of anything instead of being actively engaged in steering the car.

Guy who has never driven detected

Bump.

race car drivers hold the wheel 100 different ways. Some shuffle, some don't, some drive with one hand for extended periods, some don't at all, some only shuffle on certain directions or types of corners. It makes no fucking difference.

The 10 and 2 meme is for teaching retarded normies to have their hands in a comfortable position that leaves the wheel mostly force neutral while allowing them to react safely to other normies crashing into them.

It has absolutely nothing to do with performance driving.

Why does FWD suck so bad... if Takumi was FWD he would lose every race

No he wouldn't idiot he almost got slapped by the ek9 but he got a lucky win

Anyone ever think it was kinda shitty that Project D was just Redsuns + Takumi? I was hoping that it'd have had other racers like Nakazato or the girls from Impact Blue. I really hoped that they'd have had a line up of drivers and rotated them for different races.

You'll vomit mid race the moment you pass your opponent.

Shingo should have been in it.
In fact the entire thing should have been about shingo, if there's an underdog story, its an eg6 racing against all these literal gods of cars. Also Shingo would mature over the story and learn the power of friendship and not just be a plain jane autistic spazz
holy shit , initial D should have been about Shingo

After Keisuke ended up being a total faggot towards Kyoko, I ended up rooting for Project D's opponents. I was kinda hoping the Altezza driver would end up being a formidable opponent from out of nowhere.

you could fill a whole thread with things that should've been changed about the post-project d series, but the misuse and neglect of the supporting cast is one of the biggest.

>Also Shingo would mature over the story and learn the power of friendship
they kinda did that with him & nakazato to be fair (and then they vanished from the narrative for a decade)

No, I wanted an anime where the protagonist doesn't lose every race.

Yea I agree you know the bit where ae86 gets the engine swap that would be replaced with the eg6 getting a full spoon tune but then i think the car would be too powerful and it would be unrealistic since in real life if you have a spoon tuned eg6 you basically have a street legal supercar

youtube.com/watch?v=-O-5PTvusow
>tfw you can see where initial d stopped being comfy youth adventure in the OPs

I'd love a story of Shingo struggling to get by while crashing his Civic in every single race. It'd be like an automotive version of Kaiji.

What and Takumi's AE86 with a formula 1 engine, tuned suspension, and race prepped chassis going against more or less stock street cars is OK?

yea well at the end of the day its just a corolla
meanwhile the eg6 has the legendary b16 engine and vtec power

>legendary b16 engine and vtec power

Please God. Please God tell me this is a bait post

>if you have a spoon tuned eg6 you basically have a street legal supercar

Easy there, fella.

@1, it's no more or less efficient as long as you're not missing optimal shift points because you hesitantly avoid steering with one hand when the conditions call for it. It would make it harder to manhandle the steering and naturally incentivize you to avoid getting the car too far out of control. It will also train against the first thing I mentioned, in that you should know how to handle the steering just as well while upshifting or downshifting into corners.

@2, if you aren't exerting any force on the shifter I don't believe it'd be bad for the car, but I'm not mechanically knowledgeable enough to say if leaving the weight of your hand on the shifter at all is detrimental to the transmission. As for general safety, two hands can handle extreme situations more effectively 100%, but shifting or lack thereof can also cause losses of control or aide recovery, so it's not a good thing to ignore if you have the ability to shift.

@3, you don't really, which is why they made a point that he had extraordinary four wheel drifting technique that minimized countersteering and made it possible for him to only use one hand in all circumstances.

There's merit, though nothing prevents you from learning to drive essentially the same way with two hands and also driving as well with one hand during shift points, plus you have more control in the case of an accident or mechanical failure, so you probably wouldn't see it employed at a racing school over standard techniques.

You'd also probably develop some mild to moderate muscle imbalances depending on the amount of power steering if you performance drove for years with only one of your arms.

Yeah but mx5 sucks and gay so it was alright

Go with what works for you.

I thought miata battle was good and fair, the trick he used was interesting and proved his superior control over his vehicle, which he used to win the race.

Of all the battles, that one was not really that dickish.

This. They were more impressed by God Hand's ability to minimize countersteer than anything.

nah

Nah what? Care to elaborate?

That would be amazing. 10/10 would be shilled the gt86/toyobaru for a few episodes for that content.

mazda 323 rwd with rotary swap wouldve been even better

shut up dude

GOD HAND
GOD HAND
GOD HAND
I AM A RACE CAR DRIVER
FWD SUCKS

What's with all this drivetrain shitposting, it has nothing to do with the thread. People ACTUALLY looking for ways to shitpost.

>confusing pulling the handbrake on a civic with actually racing

it's not racing, its drifting