WALLPAPER WEDNESDAY: Nikko Circuit Pits
30-09-2009 12:05 am
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DRIFT THE RAINBOW: Nikko Gurachan D preview
28-09-2009 12:15 am
I took quite a few decent pics at the Goodyear Gurachan D event today, including a couple of potential wallpapers. I still have to put up the pics from last weekend’s D1 Street Legal at Maze too!
Lots to look forward to this week.
19 CommentsI’M KIND OF A BIG FAN: Kitaoka’s JZX100 Mark II at D1SL Maze
22-09-2009 2:55 am
I was a fan of this particular car before I had even bought the Skyline in Japan, and I’m an even bigger fan now that Yuusuke Kitaoka has the BN Sports Type III bodykit.
More to come from Maze D1 Street Legal soon.
12 CommentsTYRE ABUSE: They die so that we may drift
21-09-2009 1:16 am
Here’s a couple of interesting tyre-related photos I pulled off my mobile phone. I really need to carry my proper camera around with me more often, but these pics are good enough for this post.
Good for another few laps at least, I reckon.
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WEEKEND EDITION: Videos from Lithuania, Washinton State and Canada
19-09-2009 5:02 pmI was recently sent this video by Vidas from Lithuania. Believe it or not, Lithuania is a fairly big viewer of this website!
Here’s what he had to say: “This weekend we had our drifting championship final, and we made a small video about it. I thought maybe you and your readers would be interested about it.”
Driftingo čempionato KOVA#4. Game over. from vidas on Vimeo.
I received an email the other day from Terrell with a link to the Nissan Pacific website. Here’s a recent video of the Pacific Northwest guys driving in the Evergreen Drift series at Evergreen Speedway. Lots of fairly decent looking cars in there!
Evergreen Drift August 16, 2009 Round 3 from Abbitt Wilkerson on Vimeo.
This next video from over the border in Canada is from David Vickers, one of a couple of guys who visited Japan a little while ago. This video was made as his submission for the eBay Motors Master competition. Despite his ridiculously boro hachi and stupid hipster haircut, apparently he has two cute girls that hang around him all day and help him work on his car.
Any Sprinter guys who would like to help David win the eBay competition he made this video for, visit the eBay Motors Master website and rate his video.
SHAKOTAN SLIDING: Yansha Soarer at Ebisu
18-09-2009 4:24 pm
Check out this yansha Z10 Soarer I saw when I was driving at Ebisu Circuit last week.
23 CommentsNEEDS MORE PRACTICE: D1SL Divisional East at Ebisu Minami
17-09-2009 8:38 pm
Once again, my posing was better than the result…in a way!
My lack of practice on Minami really showed, but by the second practice session, I managed to link the course at least a few times, even though the car kept bogging down in the middle of the corner.
There was nothing really wrong with what I was doing, but I never really got a single good run in from beginning to end. It was always either good entry, good speed, no angle or bad entry, bad speed, awesome angle or bad entry, straighten, then too much angle etc.
I found out a while ago that the Mark II was automatic from the factory, having since been converted to manual. I have a suspicion that there is something going on with the automatic diff and the relatively spaced-out gears in the R154 which is making the car not suited to Minami. It seemed to work great on Kita though, which is what made it so annoying. I’ve heard that the JZX81 automatic crownwheel ratio is the most desirable, but I’ll have to do some more research.
I can honestly say that some of the driving seen in this event, which is the lowest level of D1 I might add, was the sort of thing you’d have seen in D1 a couple of years ago. The winner of the event was Makoto Yoshimura (who drives a gold S15 that I don’t have any pictures of) who almost exclusively practices on the Minami Circuit. It really shows.
I have a lot of work to do…
12 CommentsTHE DRIVER’S DOOR IS STILL OK: Big crash at Honjo Circuit
16-09-2009 1:42 am
Damn…
My friend Yoshio wiped out fairly heavily at Honjo Circuit today.
19 CommentsSANPATSU ZENKAI: First proper practice in the JZX100 Mark II
11-09-2009 11:56 amAfter last weekend’s false start, this was a lot of fun, even if the battery ran out almost immediately and I couldn’t film any more. This video was from Thursday morning when I was still messing around with toe and tyre pressure settings.
Even though the car feels a lot more familar now after two whole days of driving it, I still haven’t had the chance to practice on Minami Course for this weekend’s D1 Street Legal East. I might have to sit down with some Option DVDs with in-car video from D1 and do some image training on the couch…
26 CommentsANOTHER ONE GONE: Shino’s big crash at Ebisu
09-09-2009 10:20 pm
My friend Shino from Shino Kouba garage intended to spend the last couple of days practicing at Ebisu Circuit’s Higashi Course.
Unfortunately, this happened on the fourth lap of the day. Goto-san had suggested that she might want to try a fourth-gear entry on the main straight, something she’s never tried before. Sometimes not trying hard enough with an initiation can be as bad as trying too hard, according to Shino.
While the crash happened at about 140km/h from a 160km/h entry, Shino got away with just a sore neck and shoulders, and she already has another slightly rusty shell ready for all the unbroken parts to be installed in. I hope she’s not making a habit of crashing hachis…
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