Here are a couple of videos made by Jos Roder, an Australian guy who used to live in Osaka a couple of years ago.
I was on a short trip to Japan at the time, and wanted to go and see the Autumn Drift Matsuri at Ebisu Circuit. After working out the best way to rig my itinerary, it turned out that www.dr1ft.jp’s Laurence wanted to go too, and so did Jos, who was kind enough to volunteer his drifter S14 Silvia to get there if we split the costs.
Osaka to Nihonmatsu is a fairly long drive by Japanese standards though, and the highway tolls would have cost 15,550円 according to the trip planner on the Nexco (highway company) website. We decided that this was money worth saving, so we took the low roads to get there. This seemed to be cheapest (but definitely not most stress-free) way of getting there.
Slow average speeds, no open petrol stations, traffic lights, stopping for roadworks and navigating in the dark made for a much more interesting trip than taking the boring-old highway. Laurence’s planning with the map was spot-on though, and we didn’t take a single wrong turn the whole way.
Now here’s something that could be very interesting.
Option have decided to start putting some of their content online as downloadable DVDs. Their system seems to requires you to download and install a program called “DVD Toaster”, which then downloads and burns a DVD for you to watch.
Each DVD, which is payable by credit card, seems to cost all of only ¥800! For a comparison, Option sells for ¥1905 at the shops.
I might give this a test-drive one day and see how easy it is to use, and if people in foreign countries can use it.
One can only hope they decide to put up old Options and Drift Tengoku DVDs…
How to effectively drift the car in wet and dry conditions.
A Chuubu region Ikaten competition at Mizunami Circuit.
How a LSD works, and talks by D1 mechanics on how they set theirs up.
Team Green’s Guinness World Record attempt for the most number of cars doing donuts at the same time.
Last weekend, I drove up to Ebisu Circuit to watch the D1 Street Legal round that was held on the Minami Course, the same as is used in D1.
Unfortunately, you won’t be seeing any photos of that here! I decided to spend the day as a regular-old spectator instead, something I’ve never done before at a D1 event.
I have to say, it’s a lot more fun than peering through a camera all day, and lugging around a heavy backpack full of equipment.
What I did take some photos of was the Super Night Meeting held the night before. This is a car show put on by Ebisu Circuit in the Minami pits, that centers around the cruising-type of modified cars, such as this slammed Suzuki Wagon R.
Of course, since it was at Ebisu, there was a just a little bit of drifting as well!
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