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B.C. Day, the day we celebrate our province by sliding cars sideways into immovable object. Yay Canada! Capital City Drift returned once more to Western Speedway to slay tires, joust walls and die honorable deaths. The turnout was immense, a lot of the Vancouver folks that have been painfully absent throughout the season rolled in to offer some serious competition. Luckily, the islands drifters aren't what they were a year ago. With folks like Myles Meyland, Grant Kozier, Brad Fisher and newcomer Josh Whitesomethingorother, the...

Driftwerks 3 is THE video that got me into drifting, and of course the beginning of my Ueo crush, however, I realized I never shared a little piece of information it held that I found interesting. Nobushige Kumakubo is the famed leader of Team Orange, as well as the owner of the drift heaven Ebisu Circuit (which BTW was in NFS:prostreet as their drift track but you'd never know it because you couldn't tell where you were looking in that damn game). What I love about this video is it's just a mashup of old Option video footage, and...

British Columbia celebrated, oh I don't even know, some birthday or something. All I know: drifting. Although a small crowd of spectators, the driving for this extra long Capital City Drift day were out in strong numbers with a great showing from the mainland. An oddly smooth, yet overly simplistic track layout seemed to suit both the under and over powered cars quite well even with the final being dominated by pony filled Jap Scrap. We had the regular bunch of hobo's running the show with some new faces, things went fairly smoothly. Overall a decent day from a judges...

Sometimes I forget I've seen a lot of cars that other just haven't imagined. These are some pictures to prove from a conversation recently that Mazda did in fact, produce a hardtop Miata from factory. Both NA model and NB model. now if I could find pictures of the factory Spec A, B, and C miata's that would be awesome! Remember that "crazy" post a while back? Well to add to some of the 'crazy' links, here's some more car specific posts filled with pictures of rad rides. Read the article