Joshua Herron gives us a look back at the 2012 Formula Drift season. Newcomer Daigo Saito took the championship followed by Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Rhys Millen.
Extreme Driving TV is a new YouTube channel which seems to be endorsed by the Best Motoring and D1 Grand Prix drivers. They released this video with some highlights from this past year’s D1 Grand Prix Championship as a demonstration of the high standard of professional drifting in Japan.
This is footage from an East Coast Bash event that took place over the summer put on by Club Loose, Beard Life, Jersey Streets and Raceway Park at Englishtown, New Jersey. These guys have always done a great job putting on well organized and fun events that embrace the grassroots spirit of drifting. As you may have guessed from the title of the video, there is some *NSFW* language and finger gestures.
Red Bull Drift Shifters is the brainchild of Mad Mike Whiddett. The premise is simple: have a drifting competition judged completely electronically on a pinball machine inspired course. The drifters have to try and link as many of the sensor points on the obstacles to rack up a high score. Electronic markers mounted on each car register it’s speed, angle and proximity as it passes by sensor points. Mad Mike hand picked New Zealand’s top 8 drifters as well as bringing in Daigo Saito, Matt Powers and Samuel Hubinette from Japan and the US. It’s a pretty cool idea that led to some exciting competition.
Formula D drivers and Drift Alliance Brothers Ryan Tuerck and Chris Forsberg are back with another episode of Tuerck’d on Network A. This time they set up a car for “Opposite Controls Drifting.” One guy sits in the driver’s seat and operates the steering wheel while the other rides shotgun to operate the pedals, shifter and hand brake. It looks crazy and really fun at the same time. The guys pull off some drifts that are probably better than most people can do when they have all of the controls on the same side of the car.