While planning my Vegas Vacation I came across a groupon coupon for “U-Drift” at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Thinking to myself “this is B.A.” I decided to give it a shot and kill one night out in Sin City.
We pulled up to a couple dirty and straight piped S13 240’s
Two s13 SR20 swapped 240’s and a Sr20 swapped S14 which was one of the instructors pro cars.
The deal is normally you pay $75 for 30 min of driving while with a pro instructor. You will first start by simply learning the basics while drifting in circles around a barrel. This is to get use to the car and throttle control. After they feel you are ready you then hit a giant figure 8 to attempt to drift around for the remainder of your time. With our groupon we paid $35 and were out there for a good 45 min! Was a lot of fun!
They also have a giant course set up on the East side of their area for local drifters to come out and practice as much as they want. You pay $50 and you could drift from when the gates open at 6pm and continue all night! You can even rent their cars and play around on the main course all night. We saw a couple locals out, one with a AE86 corolla and the winner from the past weekend’s “U Drift” competition in his quite stylish Nissan S13.
You can “kind of” see the course in behind the Ae86 here. The course was huge and would be most any car enthusiast’s dream. Programs like U Drift really show just how big drifting has become while making it accessible to everyone.
Unfortunately we weren’t able to get any good photo’s of us actually drifting because all three of us were out on the track at the same time. BUT I will for sure be coming back next time I visit Vegas and I encourage other people to go check it out if they are in Vegas anytime soon!
$75 to bag on someone elses car, in Vegas, with their tires! I’m so down next time I’m there