When I was at Nikko Circuit the other week shooting the video in the previous post, I also took a few pics of the Ito Auto/Project Mu D1SL cars as they were out practicing.
First car on the team is the Ito Auto’s boss, “Manki” Ito in his JZX100 Chaser.
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The guy in the red Silvia, Rui Ando, said he liked my other videos and asked if I’d make one of him and his friend Kyohei Akimoto.
His driving is pretty consistently awesome, so I did!
As you can see in this wallpaper I put up a few years ago, he’s no stranger to close drifting at Nikko Circuit.
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Just look at that. What a lovely shade of red. I’ve never seen a Volvo 850 wagon that looks that nice.
Exotics are not an unusual sight at Tatsumi Parking Area, but this night when I took a group of Australian car club members on a tour of the expressways around Tokyo was exceptionally good. Read about it on Justin’s Zen Garage blog.
You can also read about the shop tour I did with them a few days later here.
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Even though there’s a little bit more interest in Daigo’s new R35 project car right now, let’s have a little look at his current D1GP JZx100 Mark II when it debuted at the D1GP at Ebisu Circuit.
斉藤大吾の2014年の百マを見てみましょう。
3 CommentsHere’s another video from the summer Drift Matsuri at Ebisu Circuit. In this one, I hit up Higashi Course in my R32 Skyline with D1GP driver Suenaga and D1SL driver Waki as it was starting to dry out a little bit.
エビス東の遊び。前の車はＤ１ＧＰの末永直登とＤ１ＳＬの脇敬朗。日本語の字幕もあります！
1 CommentI can’t remember who it was, but I remember talking to a D1GP driver who has been overseas a few times, and he said that one of the reasons he loves drifting so much is that it allows him to travel and have lots of fun while making friends all over the world.
I understand what he means now, after I recently travelled all the way to Norway from Japan to drift in one of the world-famous Gatebil events. I remember reading about Gatebil many years ago in Max Power magazine, but I never thought I’d end up actually driving in one.
After taking care of the Norwegian drift team “Driftmonkey” when they came to Japan earlier this year, and had a lot of fun drifting with them at Ebisu Circuit, team owner Ove Harlem sent me a message asking if I’d like to (telling me, more like it) come over and drive of their matching team Supras in Norway. The team’s regular driver Reidar Andresen had to miss the July Gatebil event, so the three cars on the team would be piloted by regular member Anders Klerud, with two guests, Formula D driver Ken Gushi and myself.
What made this even more awesome was that the July Gatebil event is the biggest one of the year, and it’s held at the Rusdskogen Motorsenter, a beautiful track in southern Norway that was planned by F1 track designer Hermann Tilke. It looks like something out of Gran Turismo, with lots of elevation changes through forest and rock walls, with a big final corner where you can bake it up in front of the crowd. The Supra I was driving had a full Brian Crower 3.4L 2JZ engine with an enormous Garrett turbo, which made short work of the tyres, and made getting from one corner to the next a very fast experience.
Please enjoy this video of the event made by the team media guy Luke from Zero Media (thanks for the Jaffa Cakes mate). I took a whole lot of in-car video too, so I’ll be making my own video as well. It was an amazing event, and I hope I can make it over to Norway again sometime soon.
Tusen takk, alle mine nye venner. Jeg savner deg! Jeg elsker Norge!
ドリフトは本当に好きです。ドリフトは今全世界に人気なモータースポーツだからどこでも行ったら仲間がいるんです。今年の七月にはノルウェーの改造車祭りのイベントに出ました。ガテビル(乗用車)と言うイベントにチームドリフトモンキーの700馬力スープラに乗りました。遊びのイベントだから、ただのお客さんのためにティスプレードリフトをしました。白煙がポイント！楽しかったよ、また行きたいな！
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You’re drifting a sedan the right way when you’re looking out of the rear door’s window. This was Daigo Saito today during qualifying for tomorrow’s D1GP Round 5 at Ebisu Circuit.
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The three original Noriyaro Raw Drift videos now almost have a million combined views. Not bad for a bunch of stuff I just shot for fun on a cheap camera! If you have about half an hour you want to kill, you can watch the playlist here.
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