At the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon this past January, MadMike Whiddett’s JapBul Mazda RX7 drift car was wearing some large Speedhunters logos across its rear fenders. This signalled a quiet but important shift in the relationship between the Speedhunters project and MadMike, and we can now reveal our plans for his MadBul four-rotor RX7 at the upcoming Gatebil festival taking place between 13-15 July 2012.
The main Gatebil summer event is located at Rudskogen in Norway, south-east of Oslo and near the Swedish border, and has rapidly become the hottest modified car festival in Europe. Over 50,000 people and thousands of cars are due to attend from all around the world, and the Rudskogen Motosenter will be buckling at the seams to contain them.
Having gone big with our media coverage at Gatebil in 2011, we knew that we wanted to return to the festival in 2012 with an even larger program. Gatebil is without a doubt the wildest and most exciting modified car event on the planet, so if Speedhunters was going to do something to really make some waves it would have to be unique.
So it’s with great excitement that we’re announcing the formation of the Speedhunters Drift Team, consisting of MadMike Whiddett, Darren McNamara and Fredric Aasbo. To get things rolling, all three drivers will be appearing at the Gatebil Festival, 13-15 July 2012.
This will be the European premier of the Madbul, arguably the most famous drift car on the planet. At the time of writing this will also be the only appearance of the car in Europe this year.
Gatebil fans will also be able to feast on the sights and sounds of the second evolution of the DMac86, which will also be making its Gatebil debut.
Darren McNamara is dead-set on building the wildest AE86 drift car ever attempted and is pulling out all the stops with the latest version of the car. It will run in anger for the first time in Norway this July.
Darren and Mike will be joining up with Fredric Aasbo and an international collection of Speedhunters photographers and models to make and capture as much of the mayhem as possible.
We’ll have more news related to our European drift event program in the coming weeks.
Start planning your Gatebil trip now!
:Rod
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wow. Dmac, Madmike and Aasbo. nice combination. just one thing. make sure aasbo supra's look is as sick as the 86 and madbull7.
wow. Dmac, Madmike and Aasbo. nice combination. just one thing. make sure aasbo supra's look is as sick as the 86 and madbull7.
Quite amazing what a big bag of money written "EA" on it can do.
Quite amazing what a big bag of money written "EA" on it can do.
No Matt Powers?
No Matt Powers?
wow madmike rx7 maybe the only drift car that has run in 4 continets! australian/nz, asian, american and now europe. if only he runs in african continents...
wow madmike rx7 maybe the only drift car that has run in 4 continets! australian/nz, asian, american and now europe. if only he runs in african continents...
Funny that picture of Fredric is how my grandmother drifts to church on Sunday
ournings in her 1987 Regal. I think she has more angle though.lol
Funny that picture of Fredric is how my grandmother drifts to church on Sunday
ournings in her 1987 Regal. I think she has more angle though.lol
If you wanna get technical, they built a second car for the D1 series in Japan called the JapBull.
If you wanna get technical, they built a second car for the D1 series in Japan called the JapBull.
@hanablemoore More angel? That is called reversing....
@Panda86 IIRC, the Madbul was also shipped to Japan too a few years ago.
It'd be nice if Mad Mike would pop to the UK too
@FredricAasbo ELSKER DET!!
Madmike got the Madbulll rx-7, Dmac got the AE86 and Aasbø got Chucky!
I think i think it's funny, that few years ago when drifting was the newest thing hitting the old continent since drag raicing and one of the cars everybody where talking about, and it was in all of the european car/tuning mags, is now burried under a pile of shit in that last pic.
To speedhunters administration... you better check with gatebil about sound.. there is a desibel max and it would be a shame to se mike blackflagged as soon as he hit the throttle.. just thought it might interest you
@SMRacing Tx for the note. We'll check into that.
How can i get there and is there any one traveling from Germany to the event?
too bad chucky is in the states!
Where can you but tickets for Gatebil? I'm having no luck finding anything.
@jabals http://gatebil.no/?p=3101
@jabals from what i can read its not possible to pre order... you just buy at the gate.. there is enough space, dont worry about that
@SMRacing Nice one man cheers for the help
@DeeViens tas būtu kā orgasms ausīm īstam drifta fanam!
I'm going to Gatebil in July myself to photograph and make some videos
It will be awesome!
- http://www.arcticexposure.no/reisacrossen-2012-day-1
- http://www.arcticexposure.no/reisacrossen-2012-day-2
So speaking of Darren, weren't you guys going to go into to detail about what's going on in ASD? More specifically, Darren's SATURN SKY?!?! We(I) need to know what he's going to be driving when Hotlanta comes around this month. His car looked pretty tore up from Long Beach...
Back on topic, once I'm a rich photographer, I'm going to go to Gatebil for two reasons: Gatebil and Norwegian scenery(I've seen some amazing photos).
@KineKvamsdal YES!! Jeg og!!
@FredricAasbo Hehe!! Hadde ikke vært feil om jeg fikk være med en tur rundt banen!!
@LouisYio i think he's going to be rolling the falken tire 350z for the rest of the season.
@sstevve Chucky is out of the country. You wont believe where it will pop up. The good news is Chucky's sister will be at Gatebil.
@LouisYio Keep your eyes peeled as I will be following ASD from them getting prepped for Atlanta to unloading the cars for Thursday practice.
@RodChong @Panda86
And didnt he race it in thailand or something aswel?
Can we PLEASE get a desktop version of Aasbo's reverse entry!?
Awesome write up, awesome picturesNice work
Awesome write up, awesome pictures, Nice work
Bring them all to WTAC =)
So, they are two cars, both driven by Mad Mike, and both cars looking axactly the same? MadBull and JapBull?
Because Gatebil
http://youtu.be/FA6fMRQ0p5Q?hd=1
@Ryanfels @RodChong @Panda86 Yes he took it to some of the FD Asia events.
nicely done supra for drift
love the rotary ae86
and as always this 7 is MAD
@KineKvamsdal Stikk bortom på #Gatebil Juli, så ser vi hva vi får til. Vanskelig å love, men lover å prøve!
You are so welcome :)Looking forward to let Mad mike enter the track, c u in the pit
@greenroadster no way lookin the same
@greenroadster they look nothing alike mate
UK Rocket Bunny needs to go to Gatebil, HELP !!!!!!
differant paint scheme, body kit and pretty sure madbul is like 30-50cm wider