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Hey Drift Fans! Stu here with a cool update.

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If you are, then Join the Drift In Japan Group!

So then you can get updated more frequently with news and pics etc from my website here.

You can even see a dodgey home made video I did when you go and visit the group page.

Ok, thats all for now, so see you on Facebook!

Stu - www.DriftinJapan.com

"Facebook. A place for friends...who are bored with Myspace."


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Just released in Japan by Takara TOMY!

Palm-sized build it your self RC cars that REALLY DRIFT!

Check out this short promo video....



Just like the bigger 1/10 version....so cool hey?

They make them in 4 different body styles.

• Toyota Corolla Levin AE86 (everybody's fav) in Red
• Skyline GTR R34 in Yellow
• Mazda FD Rx7 in Black and White
• Nissan 180 SX in Blue

For everyone who wants to get into RC drift but can't afford the hundreds of dollars to fork out for the usual drift RC package, these new palm sized RC cars are the perfect way to go!

Want one? Check my auction out on Ebay!

I expect these to be hot sellers so if you have any personal -requests, please email or message me.

Cheers,
Stu

;)

Labels: ae86-corolla-drift, drift-light-package, rc-drift, takara-tomy

Hi guys and gals, long time no hear!

Sorry this post is not to do with Drifting but its still got some very cool Japanese speed thrills..this time its Japanese Drag racing!

Coming from Brisbane and the nice drag strip at Willowbank Raceway and the high level of cars such as Top Fuel that Willowbank attracts at events like Winternats etc. I was a interested to see what type of line up good old Sendai Highland drag raceway would get.

My vote: 8/10

They had a good variety of high-performance Japanese cars there....not just all Skylines like I thought it would be. Apparently, drag racing has lost a lot of its popularity...now everyones likes Drifting..but who can blame them?

There were some fast cars there and then...not so fast cars. The fastest car of the day was the full-tube chassis R32 GTR Skyline from ESCORT. It ran a 5.3 seconds over the 1/8the mile. Why it dod not run the full 1/4 mile I don't know..car too fast maybe?




Thanks for reading----leave a comment if you like!

Stuart

ps. I out a few more pics from this day up on Facebook - check them out here!

Labels: drag-r32, drag-racing, japanese-drag-cars, sendai-highland, team-good-luck

This is late coming I know....sorry guys. But after many people asking about drift events, I figured I'd better post at least the 2008 Japan D1 GP schedule up here.

2008 D1 GP Japan Schedule

Round 1: Ebisu Circuit Fukushima Prefecture March 30
Round 2: Fuji Speedway Shizuoka Prefecture April 27
Round 3: Suzuka Circuit Mie Prefecture May 24-25
Exhibition Round: Tokyo Drift in Odaiba Odaiba Metropolitan Car Park Tokyo Bay June 7-8
Round 4: Okayama International Circuit Okayama Prefecture June 27-29
Round 5: Autopolis Ōita Prefecture August 3
Round 6: Ebisu Circuit Fukushima Prefecture August 29-31
Round 7: Fuji Speedway Shizuoka Prefecture October 26
World All-Star (non-championship) Irwindale Speedway California November 30

Hope this helps to keep up to date with the D1GP series over here in Japan. I know I'll be going to round 6 in Ebisu. Look for a full report on that soon!

Drift safe, Live hard!!

Stu - www.DriftinJapan.com

:)
Stu

Labels: d1-drift-calendar-2008, d1-japan-schedule-2008, D1GP-japan, drift-events-japan

Odaiba Tokyo, the popular Tokyo bay-side suburb in Downtown Tokyo is not commonly known for drifting - rather it's known for it's TV studios and big shopping complexes.

But for the first time in 3 years, they brought Drift back to Downtown Tokyo with the D1 Drift Exhibition Match held on June 7th-8th 2008.

The Odaiba drift course is large parking lot converted to a decent size course much of the likes of a mirrored Ebisu circuit in shape and speed (120km/h). As the center of Tokyo is packed tighter than a tin of sardines, a permanant drift track is next to impossible so a wide open car park is the next best thing. Nothing wrong with that, I say!

Reports say that all the usual D1 drivers (30 all up) were out showing their best drift machines and drifting skills to the Tokyo crowd.

Team Orange also put on their crowd pleasing drift show from the 4 drivers - Kumakubo, Tanaka, Suenaga and new member Hiraoka. Some of their drift stunts included twin drifting, 4 car drifting and the famous "taimen" drifting (head on drift) with all 4 cars (2 x 2)! Wow! Would have loved to see that!

As it was a real D1 match, they had the usual tournament of Best 16 then Best 8, Best 4 and The Final Round.

The champion of the Odaiba Drift Exhibition for 2008 was Imamura in his new drift machine - red Prodrive Silvia S15 after defeating reigning 2007 D1 champ Kawabata in his (not usual) blue Toyo 180sx.

There is a rumor that this may be the last event in Odaiba - but knowing the growing excitement and fan base for drifting in Japan, I hope we can see more drift events in Odaiba like this!

Stu - www.DriftinJapan.com

:)

Labels: d1-2008, d1-odaiba, imamura-new-drift-car, team-orange, tokyo-drift, tokyo-drift-odaiba

Browsing Youtube this morning I found this video of Nomuken try to drift the new GTR skyline....

We all know Nomuken from D1 and his Blitz R34 Skyline 4 door...so you'd think he could just about drift anything..even the R35 GTR!!

But as you can see in the video, the guys from Nissan didn't have drifting in mind when they built the R35 GTR....

Have a look at this!



So...it doesn't look like it will be making it to the next D1 GP round but who knows..maybe they can shake the computers and AWD soon and we can see it drift like a real Japanese sports car.

Later,
Stu - www.DriftInJapan.com


:)

Labels: 2009-skyline-drift, new-gtr-drift, nomuken-drifting-new-skyline-gtr

Hi hot & sexy and sick & ugly car fans alike.

In my journey's through the internet, I stumble upon some pretty funny and often disturbing stuff. I found this collection of ugly cars and had to share it with the drift world.

Why do people have to do such a thing to their cars?

I can't imagine this Hachi drifting at any local tracks here in Japan.....








Everyone please take a lesson here...PLEASE DON'T DO THIS TO YOUR CAR!

My "favorite" ugly car here would have to be the Toyota AE86 at the top...I love them but when I saw one that looks this crap, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry :(

Enjoy,
Stu - www.DriftinJapan.com

Labels: bad-body-kits, bad-ricer-cars, funny-cars, funny-ricer-cars, ugly-cars