Its old. Really old. I was doing it as early as 2005. Which is when I got my drivers license. I always thought Gymkhana was an odd name but thats what we called it.  
 
Its basically Autocross but for drifting. Basically you take a flat empty lot, like a parking lot. Set up a course made of cones where the  cones represent the apexes of the corners. So you basically take however many cones you have and place them around randomly and the just freestyle drift around them.  Or you number them and drift around them in order. 

Who said it was new?

Who said it was new?

Drew knows who Ken Block is and what Gymkhana is, he clearly knew what it was when the codemasters guys came and did the QL EX. 
 
But we're all very impressed that you were obviously one of the progenitors of gymkhana before the mainstream ruined it, man.

Drew knows who Ken Block is and what Gymkhana is, he clearly knew what it was when the codemasters guys came and did the QL EX.  But we're all very impressed that you were obviously one of the progenitors of gymkhana before the mainstream ruined it, man.

Drew knows who Ken Block is and what Gymkhana is, he clearly knew what it was when the codemasters guys came and did the QL EX.  But we're all very impressed that you were obviously one of the progenitors of gymkhana before the mainstream ruined it, man.

Also, 2005? Not really old. In fact, that's quite new.

I was only trying to bring forth information that might not be known by most. But whatever, I won't bother sharing anymore. 

I think in terms of sport, 6 years IS relatively new. Looks like heaps of fun though, I wish I could give it a try.

I think in terms of sport, 6 years IS relatively new. Looks like heaps of fun though, I wish I could give it a try.

So you were those chavs drifting in the cinema parking lots every saturday night. :o

Ryan thought Codemasters made the name up on the HH and Drew didn't seem to know the name. 
 
Gymkhana as applied to motorsport is relatively new, however they stole it from the horsey event that has been around about a 100 years - back when India was a colony and the English took the name from the Urdu.  Basically a horse obstical course, I think it is even in the Olympics.  In fact I am sure Ryan played Gymkhana on the kinect for a QL - remember the whole "horse meet rider, rider meet horse" meme.

So you were those chavs drifting in the cinema parking lots every saturday night. :o

Ryan thought Codemasters made the name up on the HH and Drew didn't seem to know the name.  Gymkhana as applied to motorsport is relatively new, however they stole it from the horsey event that has been around about a 100 years - back when India was a colony and the English took the name from the Urdu.  Basically a horse obstical course, I think it is even in the Olympics.  In fact I am sure Ryan played Gymkhana on the kinect for a QL - remember the whole "horse meet rider, rider meet horse" meme.

You know, the license course in GT4 was called Gymkhana.  Woah
 
Edit: That game came out in 2004, making you, i guess, late to the party.

You know, the license course in GT4 was called Gymkhana.  Woah  Edit: That game came out in 2004, making you, i guess, late to the party.

This just in, people drifting in cars is not a new thing. 
 
Amazing insight there.

In what world is 2005 "really old"?

Stealth brag topic. If you can call it that.

How dare they put something that already exsists into a video game. Fuckers.

So you were those chavs drifting in the cinema parking lots every saturday night. :o

I don't see the word "Gymkhana" on any of the resumés I see. Just saying...

I too in the past would drive around parking lots in the snow and skid all over the place.
I never once considered myself a Gymkhana rally racer though.

@alternate said:

Ryan thought Codemasters made the name up on the HH and Drew didn't seem to know the name.  Gymkhana as applied to motorsport is relatively new, however they stole it from the horsey event that has been around about a 100 years - back when India was a colony and the English took the name from the Urdu.  Basically a horse obstical course, I think it is even in the Olympics.  In fact I am sure Ryan played Gymkhana on the kinect for a QL - remember the whole "horse meet rider, rider meet horse" meme.

If you watched the quick look, when Vinny asked, Drew said the name is basically an Indian word for gymnasium and is a name used in equestrian events. Which is exactly what it is. So I'd say he does know the name.  So again, to reiterate: Drew knows what Gymkhana is. Drew knows who Ken Block is.  

Also, horsey? 

@Damodar said:

@alternate said:

Ryan thought Codemasters made the name up on the HH and Drew didn't seem to know the name.  Gymkhana as applied to motorsport is relatively new, however they stole it from the horsey event that has been around about a 100 years - back when India was a colony and the English took the name from the Urdu.  Basically a horse obstical course, I think it is even in the Olympics.  In fact I am sure Ryan played Gymkhana on the kinect for a QL - remember the whole "horse meet rider, rider meet horse" meme.

If you watched the quick look, when Vinny asked, Drew said the name is basically an Indian word for gymnasium and is a name used in equestrian events. Which is exactly what it is. So I'd say he does know the name.  So again, to reiterate: Drew knows what Gymkhana is. Drew knows who Ken Block is.  

I stand by what I said.  On the HH (which was shot before the QL) he didn't know WTF it was.  Likely he googled it afterwards.  Good for him, the willingness to learn is an excellent character trait.   

New, old, either way I dread the Gymkhana events.  I want to race, not twirl around cones. 

Its old. Really old. I was doing it as early as 2005.  

2005 is really old? 
 
What?

Remember those heady days of 2005? We knew how to work for our meals back then, lemme tell ya. 

When they said it's new, weren't they mainly saying that about how it's new to the games?

When they said it's new, weren't they mainly saying that about how it's new to the games?

I imagine he must have had to have thumbed through dusty tomes and various ancients texts in a temperature and humidity controlled room whilst wearing gloves to learn about something that goes as far back as 2005.

You are taking that completely out of context. 

Wow, this thread is turning out much better than I had expected. Kudos fellow smug duders

@Devil240Z: My dad was doing it back in the 70s with his Lotus Super 7. None of the guys in the office know what it is though.

@Devil240Z: My dad was doing it back in the 70s with his Lotus Super 7. None of the guys in the office know what it is though.

Old or new, Subaru sucks at both Gymkhana and Rally ;)

Since when 2005 consider "old" I guess I didn't get the memo. But I think in the QL they were referring that it was new to the Dirt franchise. IMO

2005 might as well be 200 years ago.
Nobody said it was a new thing, I just think Vinny and Drew and I guess Ryan and Will just weren't aware.

Here's an example of traditional gymkhana, the car is the same as the one Ethan mentioned his dad having too: