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Driftweek in the USA coming from overseas - a trip like no other!
Everybody who lives the drift live has stumbled upon the event called drift week. Driving in your built drift car legally on the road from one drift track to the next. Sounds incredible insane and not doable - for Europeans at least. Well, the USA and Aaron Losey make it possible!
Drift week is nothing you sign up for, you have to apply for it. Over 150 applications for about 15 free spots. In the application you are asked to show what makes you special. Well, the professional drift car drivers are known drivers. Youtube stars are, well, Youtube stars. But what about other drivers? A unique car is something special. Or if you are a foreigner. Aaron has travelled quite a lot himself and he knows the hassle of getting to drift in foreign countries. He admires the commitment drifters have to have to go and get sideways in a foreign country. As a foreigner you have to overcome several obstacles you don't have drifting in your own country/continent. Foreign language, getting an international driver's license and a flight are the easier things to deal with. More difficult is the challenge how to get a drift car overseas; buying? renting? shipping? Pick one option and you will find yourself within so many more things to figure out and deal with.
It said you need to have social media on the application form. We never cared about social media (takes too much time you could use to work on the cars or go out drifting) - but if it gets us into drift week and lots of seat time? We will
do it!
It took us several weeks to set up Facebook, Instagram and a homepage with some content to show. After the homepage was online we sent out our applicaton for drift week. Less than one hour later we had a reply from Aaron through email and on Facebook.
It was already February, what left us 2 months to get things settled for drift week 5. This is not much time! First we wanted to ship one of the Foxbodys to the USA, but shipping costs are insane these days. With that amount of money we could buy one or two cars overseas. What we decided to do.
We were looking into "drift cars for sale" on Facebook for several days, but nothing really promising showed up. The tricky thing was to find a car that has a cage in it, since drift week5 required to have a caged car. It also comes with a troublesome feeling to wiretransfer a stranger a lot of money to buy a car you have never driven or layed eyes on. While I was talking to my friend Jayleen about a sponsorship/buying her car, Aaron found a stock C6 he was willing to sell to us.