Falken Tires put together this video summing up the overall performance of their drift team at Round 1 of the 2012 Formula D season which was held at The Streets of Long Beach.
The new crop of professional drift cars based on the new Toyota/Subaru FT-86 made their debuts at the Odaiba round of the Japanese D1 Drift Series last week.
First is Hibino’s Up Garage car. He is using an EJ-25 engine from a Subaru Impreza. Unfortunately, he crashes it pretty hard in practice:
Next is Manibu “Max” Orido’s FT-86 which is powered by the V8 from a Lexus IS-F.
Taniguchi’s HKS supercharged car was there, but I don’t think it competed. It uses the HKS GT Supercharger kit on the stock based engine.
Here are some highlights of Hibino and Orido during the competition rounds.
This is coverage of this year’s Formula D round at Long Beach by Shreeve Films.
The Toyota FT-86 is a new compact sports car co-developed between Subaru and Toyota. The inspiration was to create a affordable, compact, lightweight, rear wheel drive sports car similar to the Toyota AE86 from the 80’s. Production of the new car has just started in Japan and the tuners there have already started working on aftermarket parts for it. Designer Jon Sibal rounded up pictures and videos from some of the big name tuners. This is Manabu “Max” Orido’s IS-F Powered D1 competition car for this year:
Manibu "Max" Orido's IS-F Powered FT-86 from JonSibal.com
Check out the article on Jon Sibal’s site to see pictures and video of the rest of the tuned FT-86’s including ones from URAS, R-Magic and HKS.