By Alexi in
04-09-2012 9:45 pm

Nikko Circuit’s heavily cambered track edges can make for some fun drifting if you mess around with them. While it’s not something that most drivers normally do, standing near the final corner and egging them on does seem to help a bit. Here’s a few pics from a TGS track day earlier this year.
First up are Funky Racing’s Subleader and Gojappe.
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By Alexi in
18-05-2011 12:57 am

I owe a big favour to Funky Racing, a crew of young drifters from Utsunomiya. Let me tell you a story…
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By Alexi in
26-01-2011 12:59 am

Ebisu Circuit, July 2004. Ryuji Miki, Nobushige Kumakubo and Yasuyuki Kazama.
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By Alexi in
08-04-2010 3:40 pm

I received a call from Free Craft’s Tanaka-san last week saying that he had just finished the exterior of a new drift car he was working on. He wanted some photos of it “before the bodywork gets all destroyed”.
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By Alexi in
12-08-2009 12:23 am

While taking a shot of Hoshino’s Silvia with steam flowing over it from a nearby overheating RX-7, Dino Dalle Carbonare remarked that it looked like something from Back To The Future.
So, I had to run in and do my best Marty McFly pose.
Thanks Dino!
Here’s the pics Dino has posted of of Summer Matsuri so far, part one, and part two
By Alexi in
06-05-2009 1:28 pm

Remember this S15 Silvia I posted a while ago?
I caught up with the owner again at Nikko Circuit, but this time his JZX100 Mark II driving buddy came along!
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By Alexi in
01-04-2009 2:05 am

Enjoy some pics of this nicely-done S15 Silvia seen at the recent FLUKE soukoukai at Nikko Circuit.
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