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Amanda Sorensen

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Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Or your front bumper as close to the clipping point as possible while maintaining your line.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

angle and then style which is broken down into like fluidity and commitment like how committed are you how good does it look is it graceful is it choppy like every small adjustment um is a deduction in points so there's 100 points that you can get in qualifying and then from there we go into competition style and uh top 16 drivers go into main competition and typically there's anywhere from 40 to 50 competitors that show up on a weekend wow

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

angle and then style which is broken down into like fluidity and commitment like how committed are you how good does it look is it graceful is it choppy like every small adjustment um is a deduction in points so there's 100 points that you can get in qualifying and then from there we go into competition style and uh top 16 drivers go into main competition and typically there's anywhere from 40 to 50 competitors that show up on a weekend wow

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

angle and then style which is broken down into like fluidity and commitment like how committed are you how good does it look is it graceful is it choppy like every small adjustment um is a deduction in points so there's 100 points that you can get in qualifying and then from there we go into competition style and uh top 16 drivers go into main competition and typically there's anywhere from 40 to 50 competitors that show up on a weekend wow

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

So basically, it's a bracket style competition. And in order to determine your bracket, you have a qualifying. With qualifying, you have, and it's kind of different in every circuit. Some of them are, they want you to battle it out to where the top 32 drivers battled for those positions. Meaning like they did a proper tandem style competition.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

So basically, it's a bracket style competition. And in order to determine your bracket, you have a qualifying. With qualifying, you have, and it's kind of different in every circuit. Some of them are, they want you to battle it out to where the top 32 drivers battled for those positions. Meaning like they did a proper tandem style competition.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

So basically, it's a bracket style competition. And in order to determine your bracket, you have a qualifying. With qualifying, you have, and it's kind of different in every circuit. Some of them are, they want you to battle it out to where the top 32 drivers battled for those positions. Meaning like they did a proper tandem style competition.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Tandem, which means you have a lead driver and a follow driver. The lead driver is performing what they would call a perfect qualifying run, maintaining line angle style. You know, like how we talked about those outside zones, those inside zones.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Tandem, which means you have a lead driver and a follow driver. The lead driver is performing what they would call a perfect qualifying run, maintaining line angle style. You know, like how we talked about those outside zones, those inside zones.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Tandem, which means you have a lead driver and a follow driver. The lead driver is performing what they would call a perfect qualifying run, maintaining line angle style. You know, like how we talked about those outside zones, those inside zones.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

The follow driver has to be a mirror image of what the lead driver is doing. So like it's crazy because everything happens so fast. It's so important that you study your other components, like all of your other competition components. and you want to know, okay, how is this person going to initiate? How are they going to adjust? At what speeds do they enter? How do they enter?

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

The follow driver has to be a mirror image of what the lead driver is doing. So like it's crazy because everything happens so fast. It's so important that you study your other components, like all of your other competition components. and you want to know, okay, how is this person going to initiate? How are they going to adjust? At what speeds do they enter? How do they enter?

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

The follow driver has to be a mirror image of what the lead driver is doing. So like it's crazy because everything happens so fast. It's so important that you study your other components, like all of your other competition components. and you want to know, okay, how is this person going to initiate? How are they going to adjust? At what speeds do they enter? How do they enter?

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

And as a follow driver, you want to mirror them. So then once they go and do their lead run, you swap, go back to the line, and then now it's your turn. You do a lead run and your other person who's following does a follow run.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

And as a follow driver, you want to mirror them. So then once they go and do their lead run, you swap, go back to the line, and then now it's your turn. You do a lead run and your other person who's following does a follow run.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

And as a follow driver, you want to mirror them. So then once they go and do their lead run, you swap, go back to the line, and then now it's your turn. You do a lead run and your other person who's following does a follow run.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

that's insane so and the crazy thing about it all is um each run that we do the reason why it's uh kind of so short is because we go through a set of tires every two laps oh my gosh so you get your lead run and then you get your follow run on that set of tires because it's the rubber's just burning off right yeah exactly that's crazy sounds expensive too Yeah, tire budgets are definitely a thing.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

that's insane so and the crazy thing about it all is um each run that we do the reason why it's uh kind of so short is because we go through a set of tires every two laps oh my gosh so you get your lead run and then you get your follow run on that set of tires because it's the rubber's just burning off right yeah exactly that's crazy sounds expensive too Yeah, tire budgets are definitely a thing.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

that's insane so and the crazy thing about it all is um each run that we do the reason why it's uh kind of so short is because we go through a set of tires every two laps oh my gosh so you get your lead run and then you get your follow run on that set of tires because it's the rubber's just burning off right yeah exactly that's crazy sounds expensive too Yeah, tire budgets are definitely a thing.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Honestly, I think in competition, it's kind of... It depends. When you lead first, you are more subject to if you make a mistake in the lead line, obviously your person who's following is going to be affected by your mistake. Right. So if you're leading first, you have the most pressure because if I mess up in my run, then I know I really have to push in my follow run.