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Oct 03 2008, 06:10 PM
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Vaughn Gittin Jr
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It has been a crazy last couple of months for me; I'm going to refrain from putting everything into this one blog of mine. After all, I don't want to take up the entire Speedhunters site with my blog, now do I? For this blog, I am going to talk about my Bosch Performance Art shoot in which I got the opportunity to drift the Streets of Los Angeles and also my trip to Detroit to the Ford Headquarters, the Woodward Dream Cruise, and the Bill Ford Museum. A couple months back, I was on a conference...
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Posted
Oct 03 2008, 03:27 AM
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Andy Barnes
with 8 comment(s)
24hr race - easy to get excited about but the reality of the challenge soon sets when you get to the track and grasp how much preparation is required to not only get the car to do its job but for the team to go the distance non-stop. Imagine starting your car up now and pounding around a track at full-tilt until the same time tomorrow and the million things that can break, wear out and fail during such a long period of 8000rpms in every gear - for 24hrs straight. We'll, thats what happened at...
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Posted
Oct 01 2008, 11:58 AM
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Chris Rado
with 7 comment(s)
Over the last month and a half over at WORLD Motorsports, we have been building all of Scion's display vehicles for the National Auto Shows across the USA. We have designed and built a combination of xB's, xD's, and tC's that will be displayed on racks suspended up in the air at these auto shows. We had to come up with the designs and wheel and tire packages for these cars that would make them look hot and show a different side of Scion. We recently just finished up all of these vehicles...
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Posted
Sep 17 2008, 02:02 PM
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Andy Barnes
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For the first time since 2006 I will once again contest an endurance race but this time fulfilling an ambition to drive in a 24hr race. Recently Mitsubishi announced their intentions to return to circuit racing in the UK ( which they haven't done since the 80's ) with the new Evo X and just last week they confirmed the car will be finished in time to contest the Britcar 24hr Race at Silverstone (UK ) and I was contacted to join the team by fellow team driver James Kaye as one of the 4 drivers...
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Posted
Sep 09 2008, 06:14 PM
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Calvin Wan
with 12 comment(s)
After a very eventful 3 days of drifting at Portland International Raceway for the Final Formula D Team Drift Competition of the year, Team Drifting Performance was able to pull off a 1st place finish. It was my first time to this amazing track. The course features very fast and technical corners. The judged portion of the track started with a long right hand triple apex sweeper into a 90-degree left and finished with a tight right hairpin. Very fun track. I was not able to bring my RX-7 to this...
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Posted
Sep 08 2008, 01:20 PM
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Naoto Suenaga
with 7 comment(s)
Hey everyone! Naoto Suenaga from Team Orange here with another blog entry. For this post I want to talk about D1 Street Legal Rd.4 which was held on August 30th at the Ebisu Circuit South Course. As you saw in Antonio's post, I won the event, and I would like to thank everyone for the nice comments! Thanks to all of my supporters, sponsors, and fans I have won three out of the four D1SL events so far this season and I really appreciate all of the support! First, I would like to explain the D1...
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Posted
Aug 08 2008, 02:14 PM
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Naoto Suenaga
with 7 comment(s)
Hello everyone, Naoto Suenaga from Team Orange here again. For this post I will be talking about my June trip to Shanghai, China for a drift event at Shanghai Tenmayama Circuit. Toyota of China held the event to promote the Toyota REIZ, which is called the Mark X in Japan. For the drift show, all four Team Orange drivers made the trip from Japan including Kumakubo, Tanaka, myself, and Hiraoka. We were also joined by two Chinese drivers to make a total of six. The cars that we used were left hand...
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Posted
Aug 08 2008, 01:00 AM
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Chris Rado
with 8 comment(s)
Even though I may or may not be known as Chris Rado the "drag racer", I'm going to shed a little light on another passion of mine - time attack. July 26 th and 27 th was the Redline Time Attack in Nashville, Tennessee at the Nashville Super Speedway. I was super excited as well along with the WORLD Racing team to be going to this event, especially since the at last two consecutive time attack events we had taken 1 st place. I was ready to do it again, and I know the rest of my guys...
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Posted
Aug 06 2008, 11:08 PM
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Vaughn Gittin Jr
with 8 comment(s)
A few weeks ago I was invited out to X Games 14 by my friend and rally driver Ken Block. He had mentioned he would like me to be an extra set of eyes as well as his technical advisor, not to mention I doubled as his "party sub" since he had to skip out on all the festivities until the weekend was over in order to perform at 110%. Even though I have an already insane schedule this month, how could I resist this opportunity? Being a spawn of action sports, this was like an invite to my fantasy...
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Posted
Jul 21 2008, 03:06 AM
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Calvin Wan
with 8 comment(s)
Round 4 of the 2008 Formula D Championship was held in a huge parking lot course at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Now when most people think of a parking lot course, you picture a big, safe wide open lot with a bunch of cones everywhere and nothing to hit. However, when Formula D sets up a parking lot course, they try to make the course as fast, treacherous and exciting as possible . They even made the entry look dangerous, as they had the k-walls narrowing your path which funnels you into the first...
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Posted
Jul 09 2008, 04:30 PM
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Calvin Wan
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This last Formula D Round was held at a new competition track at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park's roadcourse, in Englishtown, New Jersey. It was my first time I have ever been on that track, but it instantly became my new favorite Formula D track. I love drifting on technical road courses that have fast accelerating, first corner entries and that was exactly what this course was. The course started with a long straighaway, which requires 3 rd or 4 th gear entries into a long, left-hand sweeper...
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Posted
Jul 09 2008, 11:00 AM
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Vaughn Gittin Jr
with 23 comment(s)
I was introduced to Ken Block at Formula Drift in the Streets of Long Beach 2006 from a mutual friend. Some of you might know Ken as the cofounder of DC Shoes, but most of you know as him as a pro rally driver and the maniac behind the wheel of a factory supported, Vermont Sport Cars built, Monster Energy Drink/Subaru Impreza WRX STI that jumped over 170 feet for the Stunt Junkies show. Since our introduction we have had a number of conversations and we have always talked about getting together to...
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Posted
Jul 03 2008, 01:45 PM
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Andy Barnes
with 4 comment(s)
June was special, for the first time ever Time Attack legend Eiji 'Tarzan' Yamada visited the UK for the first time to check out Time Attack at Silverstone. I first met him at a Redline Time Attack event in 2006 and earlier this year I managed to get him to agree to visit the UK and check out the scene and cars as part of the Time Attack Series promo efforts. Mr Ito of Do-Luck is a good mate of Yamada so we managed to get him on a plane and over, not only that but we also managed to hook...
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Posted
Jun 30 2008, 04:15 AM
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Chris Rado
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A few weeks back, myself and the rest of the WORLD Racing team headed to Atco, New Jersey for the Battle of the Imports. This was our first Battle of the Imports event in almost three years. The team and I had high hopes for this event at our home track. We were going out with a new clutch in the PRO FWD NOS Energy Drink WORLD Racing Scion tC for the first time this year. We had been running a pro-stock style clutch for the last season and a half. As the engine program progressed and got more powerful...
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Posted
Jun 25 2008, 04:30 AM
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Vaughn Gittin Jr
with 27 comment(s)
WARNING!!! This should not be read by those with a weak stomach!!! I have been waiting for a long time to publicly tell this story and share this build to the world. Out of respect for my friends at Super Street and unwritten industry laws, I had to wait for the feature to be released before I could spill the beans. For those of you that haven't gotten the July 2008 issue of Super Street, pick it up and check out the story on my S14 - it has a bit happier ending than the following story! I bought...
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Posted
Jun 19 2008, 07:31 PM
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Calvin Wan
with 13 comment(s)
For this blog entry, I am going to give you guys a little intro about myself, show you some of my past cars I have driven and tell you how I got into this whole drifting craziness. I was born and raised in San Francisco, Ca. Being up in the “Bay Area,” there was only a select few that knew about drifting early on during the mid 90’s. I was always fond of Japanese car tuning and I read a lot of Japanese car magazines and Option videos on a regular basis. That is how I first found...
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Posted
Jun 06 2008, 10:45 AM
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Naoto Suenaga
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Hello again everyone, it's Naoto Suenaga from Team Orange. For this post, I'd like to talk about the Ebisu Spring Drift Matsuri (festival) that was held this May at my workplace, Ebisu Ciruit. I will also describe a little about the different courses at Ebisu. The big Drift Matsuri events are held at Ebisu three times each year with one in the spring, summer, and fall. Normally, the east and west courses at Ebisu are not used for drifting, but for two whole days during the Drift Matsuri ALL...
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Posted
Jun 02 2008, 02:20 PM
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Vaughn Gittin Jr
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The rest of the Drift Alliance boys and I decided to premiere the new Drift Alliance DVD Stay Hungry in Atlanta while we were out there for Formula Drift Round Two. We held the premiere at Midtown Art Cinema just outside of the city. It was a badical movie theatre – so classy in fact that they served beer and wine. Nothing but the best for Drift Alliance. We went all out for the premiere – red carpet, satin ropes, the whole enchilada. It was absolutely everything we wanted it to be and...
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Posted
May 30 2008, 04:33 PM
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Andy Barnes
with 10 comment(s)
Fuujin Gets 7.5 second spec cage in preparation for 2008. We've just finished the work to make our Drag GTR ( and current European 4WD record holder ) even more compliant and safe to meet the rules for 7.5 second doorslammer cars. The car was previously spec'd to 8.5 second rules however late last year we started to dip into the lowe 8's with a best of 8.27 @164mph which was the milestone for the next phase of our cars development. Since the inception, the cars purpose is to run quicker...
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Posted
May 28 2008, 01:29 PM
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Chris Rado
with 9 comment(s)
For this first blog of mine, I’m going to talk about a crazy last couple of weeks I’ve had. I feel that this past few weeks will give everyone a good look into my life and who I am. If you don’t know me, hi! My name is Chris Rado. I am the driver for and owner of the WORLD Racing Motorsports team. I’m that guy at that track most likely in a tank top, going fast as hell in a Scion tC, working hard, but playing even harder. After a long couple of weeks in New Jersey, competing...
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