FUNKY RACING SAVED MY LIFE: Well, not really. Just a long drive.
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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Tag Archive: Silvia
AND NOT A SINGLE F**K WAS GIVEN THAT DAY: Blind drifting
17-05-2011 1:22 amWhen Free Craft’s Tanaka-san isn’t busy making left-hand drive Silvias and itasha Progrèsses (what’s the plural for Progrès?), he’s drifting blind like a boss.
10 CommentsEXCITING CAR SHOWDOWN PART I: Looking, 326Power and street drifters
04-04-2011 11:59 pm
Those of you who subscribed to the Noriyaro Facebook page might have noticed a few mobile uploads from the Exciting Car Showdown in Nagoya on the weekend. While I was in Kansai for another reason and didn’t have my proper camera on me, I still managed to head out and snap a few pics.
26 CommentsNO SH*T: Kazuhiro Tanaka’s 2011 D1GP 2JZ Silvia in the build
08-02-2011 3:22 am
S15 HEROS: Ebisu Circuit D1GP, 2004
26-01-2011 12:59 am
Ebisu Circuit, July 2004. Ryuji Miki, Nobushige Kumakubo and Yasuyuki Kazama.
18 CommentsSOUTH BURST: Naoki Nakamura’s S13 in the Ebisu Minami pits
23-12-2010 10:07 pm
Who’s that there in the background shooting video? Could it be this guy? (vimeo.com)
13 CommentsMILK TEA PHOENIX: Jesse Streeter’s S13 is back
17-06-2010 1:28 am
Some of you may be familiar with Jesse Streeter’s gutter-scraping S13 Silvia.
Some of you may also recall that it had an unfortunate meeting with a wall at Ebisu Circuit which left the front end geometry in what could be described as the shape of a rounded parallelogram.
It’s back!
41 CommentsJUST CHUCK IT IN THE BUSHES: “I’m not dead yet” Silvia missile
09-06-2010 2:30 pm
Believe it or not, this S14 is a perfectly functioning drifter.
The sign says “Let’s keep the river beautiful!”
34 CommentsUNBURNABLE GARBAGE: Military-spec Skyline and Silvia
25-05-2010 10:19 pm
Can I officially take credit for making the word “missile” so popular in western drifting circles? I know that the term itself has been around for a long time in Japan, but a quick dated search shows it becoming popular a couple of months after I first used it back in this post.
It’s been a double-edged sword though, because some people think “missile” means “smash into things”.
“I hate missiles. They don’t have any meaning. It’s just playing. You can’t hit people in competitions.” thinks one D1 driver who shall remain nameless.
That said though, drifting is all about fun, and the funnest thing to do is drive as close as possible to other people. I’m a firm believer that smashing a car’s panels should only be done against another car. For example, take a look at Koguchi’s Laurel missile when he first took it out, now take a look at it a year and a half later. Lots and lots of light hits.
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VENUS CHALLENGER: Drift girl Saori Ishikawa
21-05-2010 5:32 pm
For this year’s D1SL season, D1 Corporation has started a separate parallel series just for girl drifters called the “Venus Challenge”.
The name might sound a bit silly, but the driving skills at the pointy end of the field are not.
I’ll have more on that in another post, but when I put up some stuff about Hibino yesterday, it reminded me to put up some pics of one of the Venus Challenge drivers in particular.
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