Here’s the TSJ All Stars edit of the 2012 Chiba Damashii event. More great action from FOOL, Funky, Sexy Knights, Illusion, Running Free, Cockroach, Fanta, Freee’s and all the other Chiba-ken drivers!
Chiba Damashii, or “Chiba Soul” drift event was on last weekend at Mobara Twin.
It’s a yearly event open to drifters from Chiba, the prefecture to the east of Tokyo, and the home of numerous famous tuning shops teams. Most of the famous Chiba drift teams like Sexy Knights, Illusion, Magician, Funky and Rookies were there in force, and rather than being a display of technically good drifting, it’s more about making lots of Chiba-style smoke and open-wastegate noise.
Most of my pics of the event are going to Drift Tengoku, so until I figure out what I can post here, enjoy these videos in the meantime!
This S14 belongs to Ohana from Team Magician. It returned to the pits at Nikko Circuit with an extremely lumpily-running engine and wafts of smoke coming from under the bonnet.
You know how some unpopular cars can become popular over time? A Civic Type-R might have once been the thing to be seen in, but now a Civic Wagovan now ironically seems to have more cred to it?