Streets

I always liked people's street cars more.

off seasons from Drift Alliance on Vimeo.

Winter Blues and Reds

If my car started and my trans was fixed, I think I would have taken the car out by now. I am glad it doesn't move, because it would be stuck in a ditch somewhere right now. If I ever made it out of my driveway...

Spring

Spring is almost here!

Midwest PAAAAAMPS from Tim Tulov on Vimeo.

Can't stop, won't stop, eh eh

Drift videos seem to be getting insanely good compared to the shit I used to make back in the day! Props goes out to T2 Films, Josh Herron, and Will Roegge.

Here is a video Will Roegge just put together. Amazing!

Drift Mechanik's Don't Stop from Will Roegge on Vimeo.

Looking forward to see everyones work in 2009!

Justin

If you don't know who JTP is by now, get out from under your rock! Good luck to Justin in 09 season! Car sounds amazing, you need to hear it in peerson to truly grasp the sound.

JTPDrift 2008 from JTP on Vimeo.

Let's Driving

It is about 50 degrees in February over here, everyone is thinking about driving. So here is your goal of completeion. April 17/18 2 day competition at the greatest track in US! Register Here

Peep the vids.

RedBull WDC

Redbull Drifting Championship by Joshua Herron

Really nice video from Joshua Herron, I hope it makes its way to Vimeo and in HD.

Jetsons

New Kanye video, video is kinda cool.

Heartless from kwest on Vimeo.

This past weekend was a drift/grip day at Gateway International Raceway. Mike, Earl and myself took our cars down there. This was my first time at this track, and first time drifting at the top of 3rd gear. My power steering was not working, and I broke 2nd gear at USAIR so the beginning of my day sucked, but by the end of the day I got it and this track is badas!! Everyone MUST go to this track.

Some pics

Finally driven

So DD24 has come and gone, finally got to drive my car. 355HP feels amazing, until you break 2nd gear... 

Pics courtesy of Keith

VIR Synopsis

Wrap up on GT Live/Pro-AM and VIR.

The weekend was great. It is nice to just hop in the car and head a few states away. It was one hell of a trip. I was up for 43 straight hours (only took about an hour nap). I survived on NOS energy drink, coffee, and Arizona teas.

The drive was uneventful until VA when we hit the Appalachians, it was around sunrise when we got there, so coupled with the beautiful roads we had some nice scenery. Earl drove the touge portion and made Eric and John sick, and me fear for my life. Reverse back to about 2 days ago when I was scrounging around to try and get some replacement rear tires for my fit since they were bald. I did not get the tires, so we were to savor the tire tread...

Get to the track and help setup. VIR is different than a lot of tracks, its like an amusment parks for Cars... The track is soooo large, there are even tracks in the middle of it, go kart tracks, ;pdhes, even a CDOC. It is the perfect setup. ProAM took place on the Patriot course, all  this made me do was want to drive. It is such a fast course but still technical, at some day I will go.

STANCE/Origin booth was a success, lots of people came by and bought stuff, great location, great sales. It was also great meeting a bunch of people from ZT, great bunch of guys!

Overall great weekend. The drive back we finished season 2 of How I met your mother, but Earl forgot a disc so we missed a bit of it. I decided to sleep and just download the rest. Ended up only driving when we hit Chicago. Made it home by 6AM.

Here is some eye candy from the event. Be sure to check out Kaizo Photo for Keiths amazing pics.

GT Live 2008 - Team Hot Property Drift Teaser from Kevin Trinh on Vimeo.


T2FILMS VIR pro-am slowmo from Tim Tulov on Vimeo.

Drift Day 24

Winter is approaching fast. DD24 is on October 19th. Am I still allowed to drive? If so you fools better be ready to tandem.

Register Here

Night Shift

HIN Nightshift was this weekend, some Origin drivers and Risky Devil guys were out doing the demo. These demos are always interesting, parking lot was a little small, but the crowd was still hyped up.

Here is a little youtube clip of Josh and Chob, these boys were doing a great job all night!

Drift Day 23 part deux

Here is a synopsis of the event.

About once a month in the "lovely" town of Shawano ClubFR and its various members invade the town. This weekend is Drift Day 23, and round 3 of the Midwest Cup Series. This event would be a special event as it was a feeder for the Pro-Am Championship. ClubFR would be gathering drivers for the East Division Championship at Virginia International Raceway during GT Live on October 3rd-5th (visit www.proamdrift.com for more details).

This event was overfilled with many drivers coming from all over the Midwest, MN, IL, WI, and IN. Lots of new faces and cars came out for the days events. To even up the playing field a new course was used consisting of a high speed slightly banked entry into a downhill right, followed by a hard left towards the finish.

For today's competition the judges were Formula D driver Brian Peter, Pro-AM invitee Clinton Florczyk, and ClubFR President Simba Nyemba. Morning practice was kept short to bring out the best drivers under pressure. Despite the short practice the competition was tough. Qualifications had various drivers putting thier best runs out there. A few drivers slated to be on the top missed the tandem rounds, but various others stepped it up.

After a long hiatus in drifting Bill Cook from Indy took the top score in qualifications with an almost perfect score from the judges. Mike "Black Magic" Pollard took second in qualifications with his RB powered S13, and Ryan "I came to get down" Clemens took the 3rd spot for qualifications.

During Tandem rounds there were quite a few close runs. tMF Opposition member Mike Pollard closed in on Juan Marquez to advance to the next round against Bill Cook. Mike was looking promising to make it to the finals until his power steering gave up in the middle of his run advancing Bill Cook to the finals.


On the other half of the bracket Ryan Clemens and his S13 went up against Leigh Roto and his MK3 Supra. First round went tied and they went one more time. In the sudden death match Ryan kept the gap to a minimum and advanced to the next round against Doug Artus.

Doug Artus in his borrowed pirate car who has been putting together amazing runs in his KA powered S13 went up against Ryan Clemens in the semi finals. Doug had been consistent all day, until Ryan put some pressure on him and was able to take the win and head to the finals.

In the final round tMF Opposition member Ryan Clemens and Bill Cook both had amazing runs, almost perfect mirror runs. In the second run Ryan and his SR20 edged over Bill and his CA18 to take the win.

The podium saw Ryan Clemens on top, Bill Cook in second, and Doug Artus in third place.

As this was a Pro-Am feeder event, the top drivers from the day were awarded an invite to the Championship event. The judges were highly impressed with all of the top 8 drivers that an invite was awarded to all Top 8 drivers.

The Pro-AM invitees include:

1. Ryan Clemens
2. Bill Cook
3. Doug Artus
4. Mike Pollard
5. Mike Feiock
6. Leigh Roto
7. Juan Marquez
8. Jacob Cook

Special Thanks to ClubFR, Drift Association, USA International Raceway, Kaizo Photo, all the drivers and fans and last but not least the MWC Series Sponsors: Central Motorwerks, Drift Line, Equilibrium, and T2 Films.

Some more photos from the event.








Photos by Kaizo Photo

Drift Day 23

Drift Day 23 finally came around, at everyones favorite USAIR. This event was a Pro-AM feeder event. So the best drivers of the day get to go to ProAM championship at VIR.

There were quite a few new faces, and quite a few non 240s which is always refreshing. Some pics below from Bruce and T2 Tim.

Josh's rhd 180SX

AJ's C'Westin Altezza

Tanaka san, replacing Rob in the Miata department


Fue Khang from MN drifted his 300 whp AWD Subie Wagon and did an amazing job for his first time.

In the end Ryan Clemens took 1st place. More info on the event and what went down shortly.

ASB4!

ZipTied All Star bash was this past weekend. I think the best thing about Pro-Am is rolled in a nice little bun for this event (even the dirt). I need to make it out to one of these, they are already planning ASB 16... I think it will be in November, to go or not to go, that is the question.

Forrest car, with the greatest fenders for a coupe!



The greatest wing ever made




Some other hot cars.