Most people already read or heard the news today: the D1GP drifter Atsushi Kuroi died three days ago in a motorcycle accident. He was one of the early drifting pioneers and his professional drifting career began in the first season of D1GP (2001) when he entered it with his well known OneVia S13. He was…
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!…
TonyA. from FuzzyFeeling posted some old videos from some Silvias drifting on Mikuni pass way way back in 2003 by Youtube user kcrmsr. kcrmsr posted some other videos as well so naturally I browsed all of them till there was no video left to watch. 😉 This one was a quite funny one, where he…
I posted some old footage of touge drifting in 1996 before, but now 86ers.org found some more vintage videos from the early 90s. This was years before Shuichi Shigeno even moved his pencil enough to create Initial D! The drifting looks very skilled for those days. Even though we are used to much higher speeds…
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…