I got an email today from Brad Lord of NZ Performance Car Magazine, and he gave me the scoop on Mad Mike Whiddett's new drift car. Wait, didn't Mad Mike just debut his new Madbul RX7 a few months ago? Yes, but now he has another new car. This weekend was the final around of [...]
The other day Rod asked me if I could post up some of the Nissans from my diecast and toy collection and, I had to tell him that I don't really have much of a "collection" to post. Here in Japan at least. I have some things packed away in storage back in the states, [...]
Some more vintage goodness from the Nissan archive here. This shot was taken in the rain at Fuji Speedway during the opening round of the Fuji Grand Championship Series in March, 1972. By this point the GT-R race cars had switched from the four-door PGC10's featured in yesterday's post to the newer and sleeker KPGC10 [...]
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On my last trip to Atlanta, in between visits to get "down south barbecue" at Daddy D'z and getting turnip greens stewed with bacon at Cracker Barrel… I met up with my friends from S3 Magazine, who introduced me to Marcos Ruiz, the owner of this S13. Marcos runs a website called Southeast Drift ( [...]
Regular Speedhunters may remember my post on the 2008 Porsche Calendar, back in September, the post proved very popular with requests to know when the 2009 edition was available. Surfing around today, I discovered that Lotus and Porsche have released design calendars with renders and illustrations from their respective design studios. The Lotus Calendar is [...]
Now for some more action the HPI Tsukuba soukoukai. First up, we have Yukio Matsui's JZA80 Supra (with Celica front end conversion) pulling the side brake as he makes his entry to the first hairpin. The entire course was open for drifting, but the center of the action was the infield portion of the track [...]
This weekend I'll be heading to Fuji Speedway for the 2008 Nismo Festival, an event that I've been looking forward to for quite some time. In the lead up to the Nismo Fest, we will be posting some vintage racing photos from Nissan's archive. This particular shot was taken at the 1970 JAF Grand Prix [...]
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It's time for more coverage from last Friday's HPI drift and grip meeting at Tsukba Circuit. Let's jump right into it here. Here we have an S15 Silvia and an R32 Skyline GT-S doing a tandem run through Tsukuba's first hairpin. Both of these cars are D1 Street Legal regulars and this shot is actually [...]
Most guys I know have something they like to collect… comic books, urban vinyls, Le Mans annuals, magazines, kicks, rare Japanese rims… Name any type of object produced in some kind of series, and you'll likely find someone that spends their extra money building up a collection. Now, I wouldn't particularly classify myself as a [...]
Thanks to a tip from Matt who is one of our readers, we found a few pics of the Rahal Letterman BMW M3 ALMS test session at Road Atlanta last week. This marked the North American debut of the BMW which will be making its competition debut in the GT2 class at the upcoming Sebring [...]
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Someone suggested today on Facebook that we should rename the site, Drifthunters…. they do have a point I suppose. We do love our drifting….. Hmmm so here is yet another drifting video.. this one is quite different though from anything we've done previously. This is a Japanese street drift car typical of one that you [...]
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Ok final report from Red Bull… We all know the results by now of course but let's take one final look at the tandem bouts for those who are interested in the play by play unfolding of events. By the time the Great 8 started there was an increasing sense of anticipation and tension building [...]
Last night, we attended the Need for Speed Undercover launch party in Hollywood. It was pretty busy – traffic on the 101 freeway was pretty crazy in both directions; not necessarily because of the NFS launch event, but because there was a big red carpet movie premiere going on, as well as a concert at [...]
I just got back to my apartment after spending the day at Tsukuba Circuit for a big drift and grip soukoukai event hosted by HPI. I have to say that I this is one of THE best events I have ever been to. In fact, if someone could attend just one event to get a [...]
