SPEED HERO Blog — drift

I headed out to Capital Drift round 4 at Western Speedway July 10. The turnout was small, the action was not. If you weren't there then you should know that you are killing drifting. Drift Safari had some serious representation in the forum of not one but two SR20 powered 86's. Trent Stromkins was out in his newly (very newly) completed 86 after he ended up painting a track wall with his last...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="JAVA BISHES"][/caption] James, Phil and I were there, watching and having a blast. Long live Nikko!

With the RX7 gone and my move across the country it was time for a new drift slag. She's not pretty but she'll get down and dirty. [caption id="attachment_356" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="The car formerly known as Lola."][/caption] 1983 Corolla, autofail 4ac looking a little worse for wear but nothing like the Ontario cars I'm used to. She needs some work, some lovin' and a deep dickin' [caption id="attachment_357" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Better than Ontario mint."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_359"...

After the mind blowing day Sunday turned out to be we feared that nothing could top it. We made our way back to Nikko Monday morning thinking what could possibly be going on at 10:30 on a Monday morning? [caption id="attachment_180" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="The best way to start the week"][/caption] To our surprise, there was a group of drifters and a group of grip drivers taking turns using...

Let's summarize shall we? [caption id="attachment_84" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Pleather death, death to pleather."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_86" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="The hell?"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_87" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Refreshing sweat for a job well done. Well, a job done anyway."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_88" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Everybody stay calm, I\'m a...