We Need more Chelsea’s, his interviews are important

The fact Lone Star Drift doesn't have at least a million subs breaks my heart. Where tf else you gonna get 2, 4, & 8hr drift trips to ebisu on the youtubes? Nowhere, that's where lol this channel deserves soo much more love than it gets

Can we please make these chats with Chelsea a regular thing!!!

Chelsea and Aaron both are so brash but I love the honesty and rawness of that. Their love of the sport and wanting to see it succeed over their own "clout" and "fortunes" is something that is refreshing and is needed so much more in every sport. Super hard to find those people outside of grassroots.

Drifting is like skateboarding. Everyone wants to be a skateboarder, but no one wants to out in the time and energy. Everyone wants to be a drifter, but no one wants to do go through the hardships that every drifter goes through.

"How can you grow it when no one wants to absorb growth and be better?" Amen, Chelsea. People don't like practice. People like success. Somehow, people think success comes without practice.

I wish there were more people like Chelsea. He’ll openly tell you how he feels and show you what he knows without expecting anything in return, but understands when you truly don’t care and moves on to help someone else.

Can we appreciate that Aaron is wearing the glasses he got from Matt

Big props to Chelsea responding in the e36 technical advice Facebook page on a regular basis

This was a great conversation. We do need an American ebisu.

I think taking a look at what Drift Masters has been doing with their series to help spectators and viewers understand what's going on and stay engaged with the events is something other series should take note of. DM also has Red Bull money backing them but it's something that I noticed adds a flair to their series when compared to many other drift series out there right now.

This video has so much truth in it. Big CD is one of the major reasons I started drifting and Aaron channel has been huge for me. I was one of those kids ready to dump 10s of thousands into a "build" .his and Chelseas videos steered me to getting a great starter car and spending money the right way. Seat time and tires baby. Keep these videos going.

Perfect dose of drifting in the morning.

I love Chelsea Denofa and in all reality... EVERY industry in any spectrum would benefit from a person like him. Passionate, dedicated, humble, knowledgeable and willing to share. Much respect!

Chelsea and Matt Happel would be best friends. They have the same mentality about sharing knowledge and being both frustrated by the "ask holes" and jazzed by the success stories. I really respect Chelsea for sharing as much of his knowledge as he does.

Best YT ambassador for drifting is SAMMIT. He has the best attitude, breaks it down for the uneducated and has access to the history because of Yashio. You get to see the "pro am" life in Japan and he is dedicated to the culture.

I’m glad I saw this before it gets taken down 😂 Aaron is like the joe rogan of drifting. One of the biggest reasons I want to move to Texas is because of lonestar drift. I love interviews like this, so good!

Chelsea is the best most real person ever!!! I’m 21 been drifting for a year!! Love it so much and I’ve dedicated everything for it bought a truck to haul a cheap trailer I bought so I can just go drive! I drift all the time every chance I got! I love drifting and made it my life because of people like Chelsea

I really like the idea for future drifting including team battles / team rivals. Having 2 or 3 man teams that do a run on track and have different scoring systems or style completions while driving and being judged from there. Or having the team battles go against other teams. 4 man on track with 2 2 man teams. I wish it was possible to see more than 2 cars competing at once. I like the more lively idea of fireworks when driving and completing also. Sounds dumb but more exciting ad on's

I disagree with a few things. 1 clout chasing. I’ve watched a bunch of lone star, one of that seems to be preached on this channel, is using social media/KZfaq to build a brand that you can take to sponsors and turn drifting in some level a business. So you need people to follow and like you. So how do you achieve this without some level of clout chasing? 2. Ppl that only drive 10 laps. Who cares what they choose to do with there track time? They are supporting then event $$ and there not taking track time away from anyone. They literally are the best thing for try hards and seat time guys. Love the channel. Keep up the videos

keep it simple, drive more, life’s short. that’s my goal moving forward. i think we’re trying to americanize more then we should be and need to appreciate what we have instead of infatuate ourselves with what could be. stay in the present and let the future come at its own pace.

Drift masters would show car telemetry, on-board camera and even car angle which is cool as hell just like what they do in F1

I feel you Chelsea... so many people "drift" or "takeover" streets for clout on youtube. All I want to do is drive, I couldn't care less about the clout, and it disappoints me to see how the car community has become focused around the clout. I've been saving money for years to build something that I can track and I'm finally building it (or waiting forever for parts that I've ordered at least). If I could drive every single day and practice drifting every day, nothing would make me happier. Racing for me has been a life long obsession since I was a child lol

Idk what the community would do without people like Chelsea and Aaron. They’ve done so much for drifting and I feel like they don’t get anywhere near enough respect.

I’ve listened to and copied a lot of Chelsea’s e36 recipe. Now when spectators and other drivers are hyped on my driving and simple car setup at events I point them towards Chelsea’s channel. Tell them to watch every single video from the beginning. The information is out there, people just don’t put in the due diligence. I can’t imagine the frustration levels he experiences.

There are very few people that care so much about drifting that they’re willing to sacrifice personal wants for the better of the sport. Or just selfless in general for the sake of driving. We need more people like him

I’ve bought and built my E36 directly inspired by Chelsea he’s one of my favorite drivers and the most influential person to my driving.

Chelsea just speaks to my soul, I love driving so much

Man I if I had a dollar for every time someone suggested building an American Ebisu or Nordschliefe (for the track guys) I could probably build both lol. We can't copy the magic from Ebisu, the whole "vibe" of the place is way more than the track layout. Pretending that the funding was already available, I think it'd be better for the scene to build multiple local drift/circuit courses instead of going all in on one crazy facility. Edit: plus the fact that a lot of the Japanese tracks are more accessible in terms of price/availability. I can't just rock up to my local US drift track and run it unattended on a Wednesday or something.

This was as funnier then 90% of stand up comedy! MORE entertaining then almost every drift video I've seen!! Idea to make drifting better: light random stuff on fire, get hammered, talk mad shit, and hit the wall!!

For me one of the infuential drifters is Chelsea for sure. He's super chill, his style is wild but at the same time calm. He's not a tryhard or has his head up his ass. Rad dude all around.

Even Adam look up to Chelsea as well, he has millons of subs but Chelsea is the one he look up alot.

Chelsea is a legend, great interview/chat. Well done some points discussed. My own humble opinion Drift week 1 was just amazing, people involved, the content shared. The smaller community made it more feel more involving as a viewer, you learnt who the people were and you felt a greater connection to it. Just a brilliant experience to be able to watch and enjoy with some great people. Helped get me through a hard time and gave me something great to watch. Drift week 2 felt like it lost some of the close community feel that the first had but can totally appreciate what you said about the financial aspects of having more people on board.

😂😂😂😂 Chelsea just wants to drive Aaron let the man drive lol. Great video though. I wish I could drive as much as Chelsea. Love his attitude.

Chelsea is the peoples driver! 1000% a legend of a person! love what he does

Chelsea preaching the gospel of drifting. Wish I heard the good word of cheap reliable seat time cars before I spent too much on my car, but I’m following the word now! Seat time>all!

This man is a blessing to our sport and community. Tells it how it is and willingly educates the masses. Listen to him!

This is the best, most honest interview about drifting. Really wish I was in the position to make the sport/hobby better

amazing interview and loved every second of my time watching 2 days of live drifting at villians. surprised yall didn't mention cleetus when you mentioned tracks that are profitable he is getting there quick and hosting a bit of everything especially thanks to Chelsea and RTR

I always enjoy your talks with chelsea, you guys have some of the greatest minds in drifting in the US, and i appreciate the hell out of you guys.

Loved chelseas rant about the takeover guys in his last video shouldn't have had to take it down truth hurts

This is one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen.

There a bunch of guys that are huge on youtube, but I feel like they are the "dream" we all perceive. Chelsea and Aaron are the guys most of us can relate to. They are about keeping it simple and getting people on the track.

Nate is absolutely fukin amazing! He somehow got in touch with me when he heard i was creating Villains Sportsland for Assetto Corsa... dude was MORE then supportive and helpful, making multiple trips down to the track and taking tons of photos and measurements for me so we can get it dialed as best as possible. BIG THANK YOU NATE!!! cant wait to meet u in person soon as this Cov*d shit blows over and i can take some time to come watch yall throw down on the track!

your videos are very influential, thank you to promote pure driving and hard work to new generations, this interview is gold 👍🏼

Before this video I didn’t know much about Chelsea, besides being the guy who drive’s the mustang. After watching this video. I have the most respect for his passion of driving. And I understand where he’s coming from. Much love to Lone star and Chelsea!

as a e36 enthusiast, yes he did in fact double prices lmaooo

cant go wrong with lone star interviews in the afternoon :) keep at it!

Drift week is sweet, I'm a drag/roll racer but this is like rocky mountain raceweek but for drifters. Awesome

Really surprised to hear him say so many people only do it for the clout and not just to drive. I've been drifting here in the UK for like 5 years now and I'd say 90 percent of the people at any drifting event I've ever been to just want to get as much seat time as possible

I would freaking love to go drive with chelsea, his outlook on drifting is so real and so fantastic.

Enjoy these interviews and all the knowledge you guys offer 🤘🏻 keep shreddin

Mad respect to my man Chelsea Denofa.

I’m new to the drift scene but not the car scene and Can’t wait to finish up my car and be a part of all the fun! Im a mechanic, fabricator, and driver and can’t wait to just be able to help out! Much love Chelsea

Chelsea. I have followed you for a long time, since the early e36's. I just wanted to add a thing about the ask-holes. I think, people just see this cool thing and want to try it, once they feel they got a hang on it a bit, the interest just fades, I think, that is a normal thing in new hobbies. And another thing - unfortunattely, those with good money try a lot of hobbies, so the ones in a not so great situation (like me, f.ex), get mixed in with all the ask-holes. I am trully gratefull for all the tips you give, I have drifted whole nights in the winter, perfecting the lines and understanding the car. (It just hit home for me - "doing the same thing over and over" since I have litterally just wanted to drift my car for hours on end, but due to financial situation, I dont have the luxury to go to such a drift school as yours) I am pretty sure, there are a lot of guys like me out there - who just want to drift over and over again. (I sometimes dream, if I had a lot of money, I would just live on the racetrack)

Chelsea is a legend, hope he keeps doing what he loves.

Im from Maine. I drift 5-6 times a year in an FRS and you guys and the other people on this channel are what makes me more interested in going further and doing road trips/vacations for drifting. Plan to keep driving and not go broke doing it with my 200 hp massive angle car. :)

that is a common theme in many in many areas of life, not just drifting. when the teacher teaches some students feel like they don't have to implement. if the student knew everything then they most likely would not be in the entry level student environment; love the part when he starts talking about crack

Well this was an amazing watch. Good to see legit attitudes 👌

I know it's not the solution, but one HUGE game changer for fans is in-car footage. Even as a driver, I never realized just how intense the in-car of an FD car is compared to the outside footage. If each driver had a livestream in-car for the fans, they could definitely feel the intensity a lot more.

Why don’t we have more events like drift shifters in fd? Mike puts these events into small areas that are crazy well known, the track is small and technical and the lights and things like that make it semi simple to follow, the point system would need to be cleaned up but I think overall it’s more of a spectacle and doesn’t require crazy high power and high speed drifting

Chelsea has the best mindset for drifting and life

The way I see it, drifting has become a social media attention grab for a lot of people. When you go to a drift day the majority of drivers set up cameras and vlog everything. Very few people go to just drive for their own enjoyment. Also the cars tend to be built up beyond what is needed and have so many problems that drifting a full day isn't possible.

Honestly Chelsea denofa is a main reason I haven't given up on my build. 🤘

Growing up as a teen Ken Nomura and his blitz/Uras 4door R34 w/vsfk's was my favorite driver to watch... and his acting weird on camera was hilarious in the "option" videos.

I think a big issue now days is no one wants to start at the bottom anymore. Not just in drifting either, Basically all of car culture. With the way the lifestyle is portrayed on social media with the big dollar cars, Obscene amounts of money in mods etc a lot of people get turned away because they think they need a certain car built to a certain level to be able to enjoy it. A good amount of the momentum drifting had in the earlier days was as much to do with the perceived accessibility as it was how awesome and exciting it is. The "cool cars" to have were at the time relatively cheap and the mods weren't anything really special because a lot of the big dollar parts didn't exist yet. I think a good way to promote the sport and get more growth would be to get some of the well known influential guys into some dirt cheap cars and use their platform to show people you don't need to spend big to enjoy the sport. I'm not even talking things like Z's with angle kits or anything. Just the cheapest even remotely suitable rwd cars with the absolute minimal mods required to make them work well enough to have a good time. Hell, grab a bunch of busted ass crown vics if Cleetus hasn't driven the prices up yet and give them welded diffs and drive the hell out of them. Half the battle is won getting people "through the door" and you can't grow the higher tiers without first building up the lower tiers to support them.

Chelsea for president! I honestly respect every single thing that comes out of his mouth 🙌 if half the world was as passionate and easy going as Chelsea is I think the world would be a significantly better place

Every event needs an MC! I’m usually driving, and it’s a lot of fun, but one thing I’ve noticed right away from chilling around.... If you don’t know anyone at the track as a spectator, it’ll get a bit awkward and kind of boring. Also small goals or challenges per event will get the spectator involved with the drivers from a safe distance, but the MC will need to bring both driver and spectator into one show for it to work as entertainment.

i love Chelsea so much ( i even take his advice in video games for some reason)

There is a big life lesson in This interview!

Love this interview because of the passion from both parties

Hoonigans dudes, Lz, and Taylor Ray each different in their own way but still all the same inspirational but I was inspired before youtube by the NoDrft guys never saw drifting before until I randomly showed up to race go karts and they had an event going been a huge fan boy for 8 years because of them

Preach Chelsea!!!!! Your so right, 100% on point!

I love Chelsea. Thank you for videos like this Aaron. Also how the heck did I not know that Chelsea had a drift school? Time to enroll.

Damn chelsea spittin facts! Answering peoples endless Q’s w/no reward sucks. Especially, ESPECIALLY when they don’t appreciate it or do anything with the info you told them.

Good stuff! Always educating the drift scene. Dope and Fresh!!

I'd love to see Forrest Wang on drift week. I have been following him since 2010 the start of his FD career and he is sort of an anomaly, seems very quiet and reserved but knowledgeable on fabrication. He just shows up at Vegas grassroots events and shreds with the locals too.

The algorithm brought me. Chelsea interviews are bomb

The drift stuff is such a change. I’ve been so into drag racing for so long but it’s so boring now

I love how Aaron asked "who is very influential in drifting"? But to be honest he is one of the most influential people in drifting.

Drifting is not a motorsport, it is a culture and can only survive through cultural propagation. Social media isn't necessarily culture, it's mass market culture. Money cannot save drifting because mass markets aren't built sustainably. In the mass culture drifting just has to remain "cool", in private it has to remain relevant enough through true devotees to attractive new adherents.

100% agree about what you said about Chelsea! He really just seems like such a down to earth dude who loves drifting and having fun, and who just so happens to have a camera on him sometimes. Vaughn, Field, Tuerk, Aasbo etc are all epic drivers and seem like great people, but they've got a bit of that "celebrity" vibe to them. Chelsea just seems like a real down to earth funhaver!

Only thing I dislike is the hate against progression of content platforms . The internet has been around a while now and influencers are crucial to a lot of businesses. You do your influence via KZfaq. If you want to sleep on other viable platforms because you don’t understand how to benefit from them then that’s fine. But they are plenty viable and you can post whatever you want. It doesn’t have to be tik tok dances. Drift week couldn’t even exist without KZfaq or “clout” and half the influencers on the trip is what brings people to watch the content. People you interview on drift week who are unknown in the community get exposure through interviews and what they decide to do with that exposure is up to them. Typically they are normal people who don’t care so that doesn’t grow anything. I think the bigger issue is that the influencers are doing what they want for their personal reasons and then they say certain things like 350z’s are boring and ugly and then everyone just echos the same thing even though they don’t know anything about cars/drifting etc. Why the big boost in content this drift week? Cuz your all about clout? No... because you have to promote things and get people interested and keep people interested to continue doing it or be in the position to try and “improve” it . It’s simple

I love how aaron can rile up Chelsea so good so we get some good Chelsea rants.

Awesome content, thanks for keeping up the output 😎

This video made me appreciate Chelsea so much more than I already did like yeah I just wanna drive bro

The funny thing is the exact situation Chelsea is speaking on is happening in virtual competitive drifting, You can have someone spend $1200 on a rig and then after 1 maybe two attempts to even qualify they give up. You take the time to help the people that ask for the cheat codes you've acquired whether it be tuning, or technique and more than half the time they either dont listen or dont understand why what your saying is important.

i dont agree with you saying you dont matter...its good to be humble but you have to recognize how much work you put in so that other people can enjoy the sport! i really wish i could meet you one day and drive your event(s) keep it up i love to see your videos i look at them religiously 😂 also im trying to build my car as you say you should not as you do🤣

Hopefully the people that needed to hear this made it till the end. Keep poking the bear (Chelsea) to get him fired up. Makes his answers even more passionate.

Drift week needs to get as big as drag week and rocky mountain race week. Basically we need a 1320 video of the drift world just walking around and showing us normies all the builds and cool stuff going on.

I think I understand part of what Chelsea is saying with you pour time, money and effort into providing a way to learn, a place to learn, the proper instruction, etc. Then the person gets a new thing in their sights and its over with. I think his frustration is not so much the money, the cars, venues that are provided. Its his time. He takes away from himself to provide to strangers. THen they dont care. This is what is frustrating for me. Its not realistic to go to an event once a month simply for costs. But if i had the money to do it id literally drive every day. I eat breathe and sleep drifting and racing in general. Just wish I had the means to do what i want to do. His thing is truly a labor of love because there isnt a fair tradeoff for what he does to help the community around him. I also agree that clout chasing hurts it as well. People are so worried about being the next big thing and their interests lie in self rather than the community around them.

As a "casual drift fan"; the problem with this conversation is that both these guys literally live for drifting. Drift is unfortunately a niche market, especially here in the states. As a reined cowhorse trainer, I'm aware that what I do isn't for everyone and there isn't endless money to throw at it. If you live in a niche market it's hard to look around and realize that not everyone lives for what you're investing your life in.

FD needs to be cameras in and on each car so they can cycle car cameras during the runs. Instead of just drones and stationary cameras on the ground. Then the crowd can see the distances between, etc.. That shouldn't even be a huge investment either.

Great video as always. You guys are always the best just ranting on stuff. Keep the videos coming. Also show us Jordan's F80 Build soon please I'd love to hear that interview or see you guys rip it.

This video doesn't have nearly enough views, it was real, and hilarious.

I love you guys lol. This was a whole conversation of truth.

Would love to go to Chelsea school but it's way too far away. So for now I'll keep practicing in parking lots and watching videos. To help the sports keep doing ride alongs and demos

Chelsea understands drift more then I knew was possible.

The biggest reason more people don't get into drifting is because it's a very expensive hobby. If you're not "going for it" as in pro or whatever then you're spending a ton of money, space and time on a hobby. 5k+ car, tire money, track money, probably need a trailer and a truck, need mechanical skill, if shit breaks its expensive and you might need labor. As you improve you need more money for upgrades to suspension, braking or power. TBH to keep it as a hobby you essentially need to be a youtuber just to save some money. That's why you get a person coming to Denofa's class for one and done.

the intro part saying he'd get angry made me think you were leading up to Cleetus being the most influential even though he's driven a drift car in like, 2 events ever