Category: drifting

Video Option covering drifting in 1992

A long long time ago drifting was not a popular sport and Keiichi Tsuchiya wasn’t in every Video Option, Hot Version or Drift Tengoku episode you could find! Even covering the drift scene was quite rare! However in those early days Video Option was actually one of the few to cover that scene at all!…




Rice paddy crop art

I found this picture of rice paddy crop art on Pink Tentacle’s blog: Is this minivan really drifting? I wasn’t really looking at the rice paddy crop art: I was immediately looking at the minivan! First few seconds I thought it was drifting! 😀 Of course it is an optical illusion: the wide angle lens…




Is the BMW E30 a predator?

Wreckedmagazine posted this small clip of a BMW 3 series almost hitting the cameraman:Drifting BMW Almost Hits Cameraman at Clipping Point It kind of reminded me of this: Was this the first attempt of that BMW to become a man-eating machine?




Tokyo Matter (Cars)

I saw this movie posted on Twitter by Chris Rhoads today. On one side you can see it as a spoof on Tokyo Drift, on the other side you can see it as “hopping on the bandwagon” for Cars: It is still quite entertaining, especially guessing on which models the cars are based. My best…




5th gear on drifting

I’ve become a bit of a 5th gear fan since Discovery Channel is broadcasting it around “just got out of work” time in the Netherlands. So I was just watching a few videos on drifting by 5th gear. Just compare these two videos by 5th gear: And this one: I suspect the first video is…




Hashiriya Exports on D1GP

Hashiriya Exports hit the nail on the head in their rant against D1GP. I think this small citation is the core of the blog item: Your car is all ready, you have paid the ridiculous 70,000 yen entry fee again, the truck is loaded and everything is packed, you just got off the phone to…