Big thanks to "Quer ist mehr", who invited us to cause big smiles on the Drifttaxi guests at the Hockenheimring. With just a handful of drivers we had a big playground to show some fun action to our Taxi guests.
Big get together - finally meeting so many of our Swiss friends again. This event is in Germany, isn't it?
Flo already caused excitement at the Limbo competition on Friday. He and two other competitors just kept on going. Although the layouts didn't look driftable anymore at all, they did it. Last man standing was Flo!
In the Open challenge Flo did three great laps and won third place.
Alex qualifed 6 and had some fun battles in the Top8. Drifting with Driftteam Switzerland colleague Jan Behrendt for a place in the Finale. After a tight battle with Dennis Koehler Alex was not just able to end up on the podium, but get 1. place!
If you want to read the German report about this competition, follow this link to the Driftteam Switzerland homepage:
https://driftteam.ch/news/drift-series-2-lauf-am-hockenheimring-12-14-mai-2023/
After Driftweek is before driftweek... It never rains in sunny California we were promised - we had pouring rain and even snow!
Special Guest: Naoki Nakamura from Japan.
This time we were driving and drifting in Arizona and California. Starting at the Musselman Honda Circiut in Tuscon Arizona, with Forest Wang on Alex's door and night drifting, we continued on to the famous Willow Springs Horse Thief Mile in California. Youtuber JP Performance stopped by for a little chat and Larry Chen made some fabulous drift videos. Great to meet you guys!
We moved on to the technical fun track Apple Valley Speedway and got hit by snow - in the dessert! We could avoid the bad road blocks and continued on to Adams Motorsports Park. We didn't do the last track in Utah, but made sure to watch the Shitbox Derby at the Pahrump Valley Speedway. With a lover-hate-realtionship SN95 going sideways on the dirt track. Big goodbye hugs on our last night in Las Vegas, going from the Hofbräuhaus with the driftweek people crew to drive the strip up and down. Just stuff people do in the USA.
We were happy to be a part of this good purpose event at the Hockenheimring.
At this event by "School of Racing" every Cent earned by the Taxi driving and drifting of various cars was donated to a children's hospice and a school for difficult teenagers. The kids enjoyed it as much as we did. It was a great organized day with many Extras, especially for the kids (the young ones and the not so young ones).
Big thanks to "School of Racing" for making it possible and allowing us to be a part of it!
Back to the madness of driving your driftcar on public roads from drift track to drift track. While driftweek 5 was held in the Northeast, this time we were in Oklahoma and Texas. Special guest; James Deane.
For more tandem action, the Nissan 350Z was replaced by a Coyote-swapped SN95 Mustang, equipped with our selfmade steering angle kit. A perfect match for "Electric Yellow", the C6. Through the Ups and Downs of driftweek we went from the Lonestar-driftbase in Fort Worth in Texas to Cams Acres in Oklahoma, onto the fast track Hallet Motor Racing Circuit, back South in the pouring rain to Houston Police Academy. 50 colorful built drift cars going insane at a Police Academy? It only happens here! From the technical Speed Sports Racing Park, on to the fast and challenging MSR Houston tracks and ending with a competition at the Grand Sport Speedway in Texas. A short tourist trip to the NASA Space center included.
This sort of USA vacation becomes sort of addicting....
Big thanks to Daniel and Lars from Studio89 for creating our videos!
They are great at their jobs of filming, flying the drone, cutting and editing videos. Also fun people to hang out with!
Finally the Driftrodeo was happening again! The only drift event close to home and even on dry pavement!
While Alex was taming some furry horses in the Wild West, Flo was rodeoing our Diva. Diva was being himself, making a little trouble within the first laps of the event - gladly it was just a fuse and Diva behaved for the rest of the drift event.
Flo and Diva had many ride alongs - it is always such a great feeling to make people happy and put a huge smile on their face while we do what we love the most: drifting from first daylight into the night with reving engines and squeeling smoky tires!
This event was a huge blast! Meeting so many of our German and Swiss Drift friends again, great weather, a challenging and fun layout - on wet pavement.
Although Diva did his Diva thing and broke an axle shaft - which was a totally new troubleshooting topic for us. But well, Diva does that. Super creative car when it comes to breaking stuff. But Fox did awesome! Since Flo and Alex started in different competition groups we were able to both compete with one car.
Alex qualified 2 and had some fun battles in the Top16 and ended up on the podium on second place!
If you want to read the German report about this competition, follow this link to the Driftteam Switzerland homepage:
https://driftteam.ch/news/competition-auftakt-am-hockenheimring-von-drift-de-13-05-22-15-05-22/
We made it! Survived this incredible adventurous trip on the other side of the pond! And actually, both cars survived too xD
More than 7.000 km in full build drift cars on American roads and on several tracks from grassroot fun-haver tracks to the famous FD track in Englishtown.
Getting the 350Z driftcar from Arizona to Colorado, about one week to get a stock C6 into a driftcar, a couple of days to drive 3.000 km just to get to the start of driftweek 5 in Englishtown, New Jersey. 2 weeks of the insane driftlife doing driftweek with about 50 other driftcars. Driving from one track to the next on American roads in your driftcar - no trailering allowed! From windy Englishtown Raceway Park NJ into snow at Pocono Raceway PA, meeting up with some of the group at Evergreen Raceway PA, sweating in the heat at Summit Point Motorsports Park WV and ending this all weather trip back in the cold at Thompson Speedway CT.
This is how everybody imagines their vacation time in the USA, right?
It is always huge fun to go to big family get togethers. Seeing people you barely get to see in your daily life, but have known for almost all your life. Everybody knows everybody, their habbits - good or bad ones - and all the stupid shit each one has done.
Well, welcome to the Circuit du Bourbonnais with Grip-Drift. Big drift family get together! Everybody knows everybody, each curve on the track named after one of the drivers; whoever did the most spectacular go-off-track maneuver there (unvoluntarily of course). BMWs in the mud, Mustangs in the middle of the field or way up off off-track, towing BMWs getting stuck in some nice lady's garden...
Everything is perfect about this event; awesome track, great (and forgiving) staff, drivers stuck together in a cute B&B serving self-cooked 4-course meals and exciting talks with the people who taught you drifting and the people you taught how to drift.
Just getting home from the trackday in Anneau, we are already packing again. With a short check up on the cars within one day we were again on the road - 7 hours to drive to the next drift event in France, a very short-termed great possibility. We have never been to the Circuit du Bugey and were very excited about getting to know this track.
Big thanks to Grip&Drift.ch for organizing this event and including us to the small drift group of only 12 cars. Bugey is a very fast track, which makes tandeming more a challenge as it already is. It sure doesn't help tandeming that the track has to be watered for drifting. Both cars did great - we are happy about Bernd's recommendation for the Uniroyal tires for the front, they did wonders to help with the understeering issues on wet tracks!
It was two awesome days with the Grip-Drift.ch family. So good to see everybody again!
There couldn't be better conditions to start the season: Great sunny weather, two perfectly running cars, including two selfmade steering angle kits and a happy reunion with our best drift friends!
With the new steering angle kit installed in the Saleen we were thrilled to see how the car handles with it. Now both cars able to do the same angle we had incredible fun tandeming.
Big thanks to DriftBulletin for the amazing pictures (as always) :)
Studio89 accompanied us with their video camera and drone. Stay tuned for their video of this event!
The first version of our selfmade steering angle kit was a huge success with incredible improvement of the car's skills. The first one was made for Fox. Now there is another one in the making for the Saleen. But not just a one on one copy of the first one! Flo adjusted the steering knuckle and relocated the wheel hub to gain caster offset. This will further improve the self-steer characteristics of the car. This allows an alignment setting with less caster angle and helps getting more tire surface on the ground in full angle.
After years and years of denial to go into social media, we decided to get our team online on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and this homepage.
Read about our cars, their personality (yes, cars do have that!), their history, their build, events we have been at. Get some insight in the 3d printing projects we have been doing to optimize our cars. Enjoy some pictures of the cars and watch the videos to see some drift car action!
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