Drift Trikes started out as a way for the drivers in the D1 New Zealand series to have some fun during their off-season. What started out as a hobby has become massively popular and a full time business for some of the guys. These are highlights from a gathering of riders from the Whangas What, Drift Trike Fellas, Waitomo Massif and the Shore City Sliders put on by the MadAzz Trikes company.
JyuRoku brings us this fun video of the Autumn 2012 Drift Matsuri event that took place at Ebisu circuit. The Drift Matsuri events are hardcore grassroots drifting as you will see by all the battered “drift missile” cars. Drivers do these events to practice their drifting precision to see how close they can get to the barriers and the doors of other cars while doing tandem runs.
Monster Energy compiled all of the onboard footage from Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s 2012 Formula D season. He drifts all of the courses in the span of 179 seconds.
Stephen Brooks films brings us footage from the 2011 seasons of Formula D and the British Drift Championship. It’s all remixed into a film that emphasizes the spirit of competition in drifting.
Abbitt Wilkerson of AW Films has been putting together highlight reels of Daigo Saito competing in this past year’s Formula D season. I just found the series, so I’m going to put them all into one post in chronological order.
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