Let’s not kid anybody: all of you Speedhunters out there have likely done some ‘spirited’ driving on the streets in one form or another. But we all know that it is very dangerous. Too much spirited driving on the streets is a very real problem in the UAE – especially in Dubai. In an effort [...]
It all boiled down to this. After years of thought and months of planning, a dozen pro-spec drift machines rolled out of their makeshift pit bays and onto a closed-off section of downtown city road in Auckland, New Zealand. In front of a huge crowd gathered at the free-to-watch event, the Red Bull Drift Shifters [...]
The New Zealand drift community is getting pretty excited right now, and for good reason. This coming weekend an entire city block in downtown Auckland will be shut down and transformed into a tarmac playground for a bunch of Kiwi drifters and three Formula Drift internationals. The cause: Red Bull Drift Shifters. The event is [...]
For years I have been watching Best Motoring and Video Option DVDs, so I have always been a huge fan of Japanese racing culture. I got familiar with drivers like Keiichi Tsuchiya, Manabu Orido,Tarzan Yamada and Nobuteru Taniguchi. Every one of these personalities had a huge impact on bringing Japanese racing culture to America. In 2001 Nobuteru Taniguchi became the [...]
During my career I’ve mostly followed car culture in North America; I’ve only recently experienced what’s going on over in Europe and I’m pretty late to the Asian automotive scene, so this recent Asia tour was the perfect time for me to do a bit of catching up. I have always wanted to shoot wheel-to-wheel racing in [...]
Back at the ninth round of the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship at Sonoma in the USA I hooked up with professional race driver Charles Ng: I knew him from his involvement in Formula Drift, and figured he could be my guide for my first touring car race. I immediately became a fan of [...]
Ken Block brought his Gymkhana extravaganza over to Europe in 2012, with a series of qualifying heats during the Autumn building up to the grand finale held in the UK, featuring a race against Ken and €5,000 on the table as the prize. Special guest Vaughn Gittin Jr joined him with an RTR Mustang to [...]
With so much emphasis and attention on the top pro drift series in the world like Formula D and the D1 Grand Prix it’s often easy to forget that there is plenty of talent out there in other parts of the world. This video from Łukasz Kaliszewski offers a little insight into a Polish driver that we may all see a lot of in the near future. Hit play and find out what makes Pawel Trela such an awesome drifter.
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Ken Block’s Gymkhana has exploded onto the global scene, taking a form of competition that was previously something more associated with gentle Sunday afternoon auto-testing and throwing in racing technology, a ton of power and the full force of an automotive apocalypse. This year Ken brought the Gymkhana GRID autocross event across the pond and [...]
As each week passes, the popularity of the #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER program grows steadily. I know some of you may have little interest in social media, but #IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER goes far beyond the social networks. Blake Williamson is about to provide you with a perfect case in point of this with his complete coverage of the recent Drift Matsuri which took place in Queensland, Australia not too long ago. If you feel up to the challenge of being the Speedhunter, all the details you need are at the bottom of this post. Blake, take it away … – PMcG.
. While the popularity of sport compact drag racing has appeared to have lost its shine in other parts of the world, it was more than clear looking around the pits at the 2012 Brisbane Jamboree (aka J22). The Australian scene is bucking the trend. The Land Down Under has enjoyed a strong sport compact [...]
Can you imagine how good that sounds? Blasting through the low, mid evening sun as it casts a long shadow over the Killarney Raceway in South Africa. Located just outside Cape Town, it’s a pretty cool place to be sat on a Friday evening as drivers roll in and practice for tomorrow’s Ford and Friends race and [...]
My favorite thing about being a Speedhunter is that I get to meet so many cool people from all over the world, whether it be drivers, mechanics, journalists or fans of car culture. Often times I hang out with people outside of the racetrack, most likely in pub or in a restaurant. I force myself [...]
Just a few days ago I woke up, stumbled out of bed and looked out the window. It hit me. I was in the Irish countryside at Darren McNamara’s house. I don’t know about you guys, but my brain does not really work at all for the first five to ten minutes of the day (sometimes the rest of the day as well). I thought to myself, “how did I get here?”.
The setting sun is slowly turning the skies around Mondello Park a creamy orange colour. A rain shower has just passed over but has now cleared, leaving the air clear and crisp. At the top of the paddock, whilst others are working at taking down and removing all evidence of the weekend’s events, four members [...]
