By Alexi in
23-05-2009 11:59 am
Congratulations Yoshinori Koguchi, winner of the 2009 D1GP Exhibition Round at Odaiba.
Koguchi’s car looks more like a red banana than a 180SX now, as he had a little t-bone accident with Kawabata, which he luckily came away from with just panel damage and drove through to win.
Second place was Masayoshi Tokita in the Goodyear Zero Crown, who drove the massive Toyota ridiculously well all day, skimming the foam block wall on almost every run with his police lights flashing, becoming the crowd favourite as a result.
On another note, sorry I haven’t been updating with longer posts recently. There’s been a lot of other work to do, and not enough time to go over pics I’ve taken for the site. Everything should be back to normal next week.
Until then, I’ll update the Twitter feed with anything interesting that happens tomorrow at D1!
By Alexi in
26-01-2009 12:30 am
I now have a large bruise in my arse from where I have been repeatedly kicking it for only giving myself ten minutes to cover one of the most awesome static car shows I have seen in Japan so far.
Why wasn’t I there on time to cover the Japan Classic Car Association’s annual New Year Meeting in the Odaiba parking area? As I mentioned yesterday, we had a rather important interview scheduled at the same time with a person of great interest to the worldwide Japanese modified car scene.
Of course, work generally has to come before pleasure, but when pleasure is only ten minutes down the road from where you’re working that day, you’re going to try your damnest to get there in time.
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By Alexi in
31-12-2008 12:30 am
Start your New Year off with some fresh desktop candy.
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By Alexi in
26-12-2008 12:30 am
I promised him I’d put them up, so here’s some pics of Tomonori Akai’s AE86 Trueno hatch.
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By Alexi in
16-12-2008 12:30 am
When your name’s up in lights and you’re doing a static burnout just before launching out onto a drift track to do the smokiest, loudest, closest drift demo runs you can for a big crowd, you pretty much know you have it made.
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By Alexi in
12-12-2008 12:30 am
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By Alexi in
10-12-2008 12:30 am
Remember the Silvia back in this post running on some seriously negative offset Longchamps with bolt-on overfenders? This is what it looks like these days. The wheels might have changed to 18-inch Work XT-7s, but the trademark colour and driving style is still there.
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By Alexi in
08-12-2008 12:30 am
MSC’s invitation-only event at Odaiba. Photos say it best.
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