"“This was a known island thing where every weekend, the cars would meet up at the Navy Exchange to race,” she tells Bustle. Like any 15-year-old girl, she eventually fell in love. The object of her affection? A '99 Honda Civic EK Coupe.”"
"“Through working there, I learned a lot about cars,” the 32-year-old says. As her love for Honda grew, Choi began posting about her car on Instagram and started to build a following. In her early 20s, she moved to Osaka, Japan, where she was exposed to the world of drifting - a motorsport where you purposefully oversteer to slide sideways through turns, just like in the movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.”"
"“I think of the car world like music, where there's R&B, EDM, hip-hop, and alternative rock,” she says. “They're all music and they all bridge each other in a certain way, but they're separate worlds when it comes to audiences and fans.”"
"“Also unlike Formula 1, where the winner crosses the finish line first, the winner of a drifting competition is based on more unique factors: The best drifters maintain a high speed and fluidity through turns, perform high-angle slides without straightening out,”"
Sara Choi grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, around car enthusiasts who met to race and cruise at night. She became attached to a 1999 Honda Civic EK Coupe, learned car skills through work at an auto shop, and paid off the car with her own paychecks. She later moved to Osaka, Japan, where she was exposed to drifting and developed her drifting craft. Drifting is described as different from other motorsports, and Choi compares the car world to music genres that connect but serve different audiences. In drifting competitions, winners are determined by factors such as maintaining high speed and fluidity through turns, executing high-angle slides, and avoiding straightening out.
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