Change and variety are the single most important things that keep drift series going. D1, after enduring some tough times a few seasons back and what can only be described as a bit of stale period, seems to have regained its momentum again. And while the organizers continue to mix things up by selecting exciting [...]
I think it’s safe to say that every member of the Speedhunters team present at Irwindale Speedway this weekend is feeling pretty exhausted at this point. Whether it was working on our #FEATURETHIS or #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER activities, chatting with readers in the Speedhunters booth, or recording the nail-biting action that unfolded on track Saturday evening, we [...]
After checking out the cars that stood out the most in Mobara this past Sunday, it’s on to the Best 16 battles that kicked off in the afternoon, after all what would drifting be with some a bit of tsuiso! The first bout of the day was between top qualifier Naoki Otani in his Evolexlink [...]
Out of all the various forms of motorsport drifting is by far the most visual. From the way the cars are modified, painted and styled to the actual driving itself, it is all about tickling your visual…not to mention aural and even olfactory senses! When it comes to entertainment on four wheels, there isn’t much [...]
Today saw the D1 Street Legal East Division series hit the little circuit of Mobara, nestled deep in the Chiba-ken countryside. After some fun grip coverage from last week, it was great to once again smell some burnt rubber in the air! These Street Legal rounds that we have been following this year, firstly in [...]
What better way to end the coverage of the first round of this year’s D1 Grand Prix season with a series of desktops. Saturday’s rain soaked track kind of made up for the lack of tire smoke thanks to the rather big puddle that had accumulated on the main corner entry. The splashes cars like [...]
Following the very wet and slippery D1 Round 1 on Saturday, Sunday couldn’t have been more different with stunning blue skies highlighting the beautiful backdrop of Tokyo city. The D1 Champions exhibition would be a chance for the foreign drivers to prove themselves against the top D1 drivers, and entertain the sold-out stands filled with [...]
As you have probably gathered from the D1 Odaiba coverage so far, Nobuteru Taniguchi’s HKS Toyota 86 wasn’t quite ready yet. HKS have been working around the clock to create bespoke parts for the build, upgrades that might be making it to production in the future so that 86/BRZ/FRS owners will have more power to [...]
The two days of drifting this past weekend in Odaiba couldn’t have been more different, from both a spectator’s as well as a driver’s point of view. The unrelenting rain on Saturday created some very slippery and tricky conditions and the those that had made it through Friday’s first qualifying session had no choice but [...]
What a weekend the first round of the D1-GP turned out to be. The weather definitely decided to play a little joke on us all, serving up bitterly cold and wet conditions yesterday… …followed by a hot and sunny day today. So even if I had to endure the onset of hyperthermia, followed by the [...]
If you were following our Facebook page today you might have seen a few shots of a rather crazy new D1 machine. I met up with Manabu Orido and his crew today at Mobara Circuit to check out the shakedown of the 2UR-GSE-powered Toyota 86 which he will be driving in D1-GP this year. Takemura-san [...]
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It’s time to finish up taking a look at what has so far been the most extreme Toyota 86 build we have come across, and again many thanks have to go to Ross at AVO Japan, Paul at AVO America, Droo-P, Up Garage and all the other companies involved in the build of Hibino’s 2012 [...]
It was a couple of weeks back that I got an e-mail from Paul Hansen over at AVO America. He let me know that Ross at AVO Japan would be collaborating on a very special new D1 Grand Prix built together with the guys from Droo-P. I instantly knew what he was talking about, it [...]
Mad Mike Whiddett today announced that he will be competing in the 2012 D1GP championship in Japan. And, as you might have guessed, he'll be behind the wheel of a quad rotor RX-7. However as this teaser photo shows, it's a different car to the 'MADBUL' FD RX-7 that was nominated as the 2011 Speedhunters [...]
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