Tiff Needell entering D1

[quach]

http://www.driftlive.com/?p=169

I've always been a huge fan of top gear and fifth gear, and i always loved watching tiff drive. i think its awesome that he will be trying to enter D1, i cant wait to see what he can really do.

what do you guys think

[soreballz]

Tiff is an amazing driver. He should do pretty well.

[kouki_s14]

he is a great driver, i wonder how he will do. i like him the most out of all the top/fifth gear guys

[kazuo]

I think this is the funniest shit I've heard all year

hahahahahaha

GO TIFF GO

He gonna rock a Union Jack on his Soarer? Cause he should.

[m072514]

Tiff Nedell is a Badass. He and Jeremy Clarkson should be the Co-Prime Ministers of the UK!

[infinitexsound]

mon o man o man , this is like real time getting into the mix now too what else can happen.. i guess those old farts are finally opening up to this idea that drifting is a well known motorsport... hope this means more events in norcal..

[EchoOfSilence]

Tiff LOVES getting sideways in the episodes.
I think he just thinks this'd be really fun to do.
Same with Rod Millen

[TurDz]

The way he can drive and express what he is sensing and feeling is amazing. Good luck to him.

[azndummie]

hahhaha i think this is hilarious too, but i think he'll do hella good

[Yuri]

Lol, the funny thing is about 5 years ago, I wanted to make stickers with Tiff's face, and the words "drift like Tiff"
It's about time.... I think I have a new favorite D1 driver.
UK represent!

[Andrew Bohan]

wow that's pretty cool
http://www.andrewbohan.com/zilvia/gif.gif

[RightWheelDrive]

Tiff is the man

[blackflag_Rms13]

Just watched this weeks Fifth Gear episode, which covers this, and his car seemed like it wasn't best equipped. Seemed very very peaky, and he was plauged by problems. Cool stuff though, I hope he continues...

Get the torrent here (http://www.finalgear.com/shows/fifthgear/9/11/)

[gogg]

hes done other forms of racing, i think its pretty cool that he's into drifting. go tiff.

[Track_Onslaught]

i hope he fucking owns. :hsdance:

[quach]

i would really like to see that episode of 5th gear that covered D1, if anyone knows were i can find it please let me know.

[Daniel.]

i would really like to see that episode of 5th gear that covered D1, if anyone knows were i can find it please let me know.

just download it off of the torrent link that blackflag posted. :]

that had to have been one of the fastest torrent downloads ive ever had at about 675kb/sec.

pretty sick episode too. im glad he got at least 1 good run out of the soarer.

[jspecmotorsport]

i remember seeing tiff say that his favorite type of driving was drifting. since back in the day

[kouki_s14]

i just watched the episode and he did amazingly well considering he didnt get to practice much in the dry conditions and it was a new car to him with suspension settings he's not used to. Give him some time and i think he will be a real competitor. GO TIFF!

[Drunk Bastard]

wow, im sure everyone jocks this guy just cause he's on tv....but i dunno if anyone has checked but D1 is 'sorta' an elite drifting event. if he can qualify, awesome, kudos to him. but until then, he's another nick hogan. fame and popularity might win you a car show, but certainly NOT a driving event.


dont get me wrong:
if he qualifies - good for him
if he fails - are you gonna stop swingin off his nuts?

[MikeDeuce]

He's not just a random car show celebrity... he's been racing longer than most of us have been alive. And he likes to steer with the rear... so yeah :P

He's great at entertaining people while he drives, and IMHO that is the only reason to spectate at any event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiff_Needell

[CleanS14]

if he can qualify, awesome, kudos to him. but until then, he's another nick hogan.

That's a huge insult to a proven driver man... I know what you mean... but Nick Hogan!?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHA

He'll qulify... just hope that old man doesn't have a heart attack when someone comes up on his ass in tandem!!!

[blackflag_Rms13]

wow, im sure everyone jocks this guy just cause he's on tv....but i dunno if anyone has checked but D1 is 'sorta' an elite drifting event. if he can qualify, awesome, kudos to him. but until then, he's another nick hogan. fame and popularity might win you a car show, but certainly NOT a driving event.


dont get me wrong:
if he qualifies - good for him
if he fails - are you gonna stop swingin off his nuts?

Dude are you serious? You obviously don't know who he is. He's been winning multiple Formula1 and touring car races for 35+ years. Certainly not a rich spoiled bitch with a celebrity father. And it's D1GB, England's inaugural series... um sooo... you fail... :eek:

[Drunk Bastard]

alright! we got some shit talkin goin on!!!! I love it.

Jay - Dude, it almost 3am and I certainly wasn't sober. Nonetheless I was just comparing him to Nick Hogan cause he is the most recent celebrity to enter drifting. Now that I think of it, a better example would have been Rod Millen. Who actually is not doing that bad in FD series this season.

bla, I don't give a shit about pro drifting, only personal track time. I don't need to explain myself to anybody.:fawkd:

BlackFag - PLEASE bring somemore e-thug flame war!!! If you met me in person, you would never talk a word of shit.:fawk2:

[CleanS14]

Yah cuz Joe is so Gangsta!!!

WTF are you doing on Zilvia at 3am... :loco:

[Drunk Bastard]

I had just got home from the bars, figured I would say whats up to my peeps on zilvia.


btw, Im a NOOB :naughty:

[blackflag_Rms13]

Noob? No never said that... yeah came off a bit harsh but whatever it's the internet. It's all good man. But you did kind of dismiss him entirely. I'm not trippin about it, and neither should you...

[Fat Felix]

post up some more top gear torrents please :)

[MikeDeuce]

http://www.finalgear.com/shows/topgear/

[theicecreamdan]

bla, I don't give a shit about pro drifting, only personal track time. I don't need to explain myself to anybody.:fawkd:
:

without pro-drifting and other forms of racing, all amateur levels would dwindle and die away.

[Yuri]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Yurikaze/Tiffneedell.jpg
Timothy Needell (better known as Tiff Needell), born October 29, 1951 at Havant, England, is a racing driver and television presenter. He is known for his almost legendary car control and powerslides.


Tiff Needell, former presenter of BBC's Top Gear and currently presenter of Five's Fifth Gear

Career
Needell attended City University, London where he achieved an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering. Hired by George Wimpey & Co, his day job was as a Structural Design Engineer.

Needell's racing career started in 1970, when he attended a drivers course at Brands Hatch. His first results came in the 1970 Daily Mail Stars of Tomorrow FF1600 when he finished fourth. As a result of winning a Formula Ford car in the United Kingdom's Autosport magazine competition, he was able to continue in Formula Fords for 1971. Using a Lotus type 69 for two seasons and despite little funds he was able to forge himself into a front-runner in the category. In 1973 he switched to an Elden chassis and due to financial struggles he was not able to score any results until 1975 when a friend loaned a Crosslé 25F to him. With this car, Tiff won the Townsend Thoresen Brands Hatch Challenge, ending the year with a "special commendation" Grovewood Award [1]

Progression to FF2000 followed in 1976, with Tiff finishing second in the APG Championship. He also won the Dunlop Award which was based on his qualifying performances. At the end of the year he was awarded the premier Grovewood Award. The remainder of the 1970s saw Needell as a front runner in the British Formula 3 series and then in the Aurora British Formula One championship. In 1979 he was unable to graduate to the F1 World Championship due to the lack of the correct licence, but he was back in 1980, driving two Grands Prix for Ensign, qualifying for one, the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. However, he had an engine problem and did not finish the race. The Grand Prix which he did not qualify for was the Monaco Grand Prix.

Since then, Needell's racing career has mainly consisted of racing tin-tops (hard-topped cars), with varying levels of success in sports cars, historic racing and touring cars. He achieved particular notoriety after an accident with Nigel Mansell at the 1993 TOCA shoot out race at Donington Park. However, Needell is best known in his native country as a noted television presenter and television and print motoring journalist, in particular in association with the BBC TV series Top Gear. In 2001, the BBC cancelled Top Gear (the show was brought back in 2002), Tiff and the whole cast defected and signed with Channel 5 to produce and host a new motoring show named Fifth Gear. He does however, still contribute to Top Gear magazine.


Trivia
The nickname "Tiff" came from the inability of Tiff's older brother to pronounce his birth name Timothy correctly when they were both children.
Tiff has provided his voice for the first and second games in the 'TOCA Touring Car series' for British video game developer Codemasters.
Tiff's most recent DVD release was 'Danger Zone' in 2000. This features Needell testing various high performance cars
His younger brother Chris is a team manger for Barwell Motorsports team racing Aston Martin DBRS9

[Muzzy]

im definately interested in seeing how he does??
perhaps another british invasion??

[Gnnr]

Good episode of Fifth Gear. Seems like he's having lots of fun. :D