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Now You, Too, Can Own Your Very Own Professional Drifter

There's not much history to drifting in America... yet. Here's a chance to get in on the ground floor of automobilia by purchasing Takahiro Ueno's D1GP USA-spec Toyota Soarer (aka Lexus SC 400). With no drifting series for 2008 there is suddenly a need to sell the drift machines, making it one of the fastest ways to get into highly-tuned JDM metal. There's no word on price, but we're guessing it won't be cheap, especially after looking at the parts list. Better description below the jump.

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9:30 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,390 views, 36 comments

Latest by hootjigga: Not a sport. more »

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Jalopnik at the D1 Grand Prix, Day Two: Finals

[Las Vegas stringer Curtis Walker, who hasn't yet sublimated in the desert heat despite short odds to the contrary, brings us day two of the 2007 D1 Grand Prix.]. Narratively, we're always drawn to both underdogs and classic, rear-drive Japanese cars. So we caught up with John Russakoff to get the lowdown on his 1984 Toyota Corolla, the oldest drift car competing in this year's D1 circuit. The AE86 entry started out as a $200 "piece of shit." Twenty-five thousand bucks and a year- and-a-half later, the car was track worthy. Gone is the original Toyota powerplant, in favor of a 2006 Honda S2000 engine and matching six-speed tranny. Russakoff says he's done all of the work on this 1900-lb., 220 hp slider himself. As for his opinion of the searing heat, he says it more of a problem for the intercooled turbos, as they seem to be losing about 10 percent or more of their power. But it makes for a stickier track, and he's happy to have the extra traction.
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2:41 PM on Sun Jul 15 2007
By Mike Spinelli
994 views, 2 comments

Latest by TorkLugnutz: @Mr_Mischif: It seemed like the crowd didn't dig the Z car and it wasn't as fun to watch as the nimble Trueno. Both drivers are exceptional, but the dramatic passing move by Yoshioka was probably the most dramatic maneuver of the evening. To have him spin out within a few more »

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Neighbors Manage to Ban Drifting at Altamont Speedway

Before we launch into the coming rant about how completely and utterly inane this potential decision to uphold a proposed ban on drifting at a race track is, we must state that the few times we ever went to Altamont Speedway in Altamont, California was for the Pumpkin Smash 400. The track was watered and soaped down, pumpkins were strewn onto all four corners, and a collection of the most dented cars ever assembled turned it all into a soupy mess of smash-up mayhem for 400 laps. This race is a wildly popular event.
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1:30 PM on Wed Apr 25 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
5,387 views, 64 comments

Latest by Mike the Dog: Oops, replied to the wrong one. Sorry grrrarrrg... more »

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Garagelet Spawns Drifting Starlet

A quadrillion square foot multi-bay shop with a floor you could eat an omelet off is most awesome for television, and a bunch of guys arguing about what gee gaw to weld or install onto a motorcycle or car. One can also achieve greatness with a modest garagelet. Proof is this 1984 Starlet with a 20-valve 4AG engine stuffed under the hood in place of its original K-series pushrod peanut grinder. This handy swap almost triples the stock output of this now mighty Starlet. Some key suspension mods combined with this newfound horsepower leads to most excellent sanctioned drifting hoonage. Bonus for orange coveralls, the guy in the cowboy hat, and Drift King appearance. – Mike Bumbeck More »

3:45 PM on Wed Apr 11 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
829 views, 4 comments

Latest by Turboner: For anyone within driving distance of PDX who might be interested, who isn't car-poor ATM, there is a clean, full rally-prepped 16v Corolla GTS on CraigsList for $3500 or so. If I wasn't in the middle of a rebuilt trans and new clutch install in the Talon I would more »

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NOPI Drag and Drift Qualifier in Dallas

NOPI Motorsports is taking the straight and sideways line together by combining its drag racing series with drift action. While the NOPI drift announcement was made last fall at SEMA, the reality starts this weekend with drift qualifying at the Texas Motorplex in Dallas. The Motorplex will host qualifying for the NOPI Professional Drift Series, and first round of 2007 NOPI Drag Racing Association mayhem. The very first combined NOPI Drift and Drag event is scheduled for March 17th and 18th at Firebird Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. This weekend's drift qualifying will be hosted by Drift Fury. All NOPI drag racing, drifting, burnout contests, and bikini clad NOPI representatives will soon be on SPEED Channel and iTunes for viewing amusement. – Mike Bumbeck More »

2:25 PM on Fri Mar 9 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
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SUPER GLOBAL ALL-STAR DRIFTING BATTLE!


At the drivers' meeting before the D1GP All-Star event, Keiichi "Drift King" Tsuchiya calmly asked those gathered how many were driving hachi-rokus. Seven raised their hands. Drivers of the venerable high-winding AE86 Toyota Corollas were to receive special instructions. In a field increasingly filled with high-horsepower monsters of V8 and other variety, the hachi-rokus would have to set a higher standard. Tsuchiya said that if three of these hachi-rokus were to achieve drifting by the middle of the first high-bank, that subsequent high-bank drifting would become the requirement for all the hachi-rokus. Tsuchiya also informed all drivers to graze, yet not topple the apex cone out of the high bank in order to receive maximum points score. This was important foreshadowing.

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1:04 PM on Sat Dec 23 2006
By Mike Bumbeck
8,294 views, 13 comments

Latest by smokeydog: Put em in 40 Fords and play Dixie! more »

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Team Orange Cleans Up at D1GP Final Round


We would like to think that if Meatwad were to drive a race car of any kind it would be a drift machine. Perhaps an AE86, more likely a Starion. The truth is we desperately need more characters in motorsport - cartoon or not. The one place on four wheels where there is absolutely no shortage of characters is drifting. Driving rain stopped neither fans nor drifters at the D1GP World Finals at Irwindale Speedway this past Saturday. Team Orange driver Tanaka put everybody else back on the trailer to take the win for the event itself, while teammate Kumakubo collected the D1GP World Series Drifting points series Champion title. Both drivers piloted specially prepared rear-drive Subaru Imprezas to great angle and maximum tire-evaporating effect.

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11:54 AM on Tue Dec 19 2006
By Mike Bumbeck
1,537 views, 7 comments

Latest by IppoJ: I never really got drifting until I watched a D1 dvd. Unbelievable. The wing is for downforce is for traction, drifting is about car control so they need to be able to make and break traction at will. more »

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Jalopnik Holiday Gift Guide: Kumakubo and Tanaka Endorse Antonio's Drifting Book


With the D1GP World Championship and World All Star events rolling out at Irwindale Speedway this Saturday and Sunday, it seems only fitting to have Team Orange drivers Kumakubo and Tanaka along with Antonio Alvendia himself wish you all a jingle bells. Antonio's book Drifting: Sideways from Japan to America is available at three different levels of amusement - 19.95 for the book itself, 22.95 for the book signed by Antonio, and 24.95 for a special edition book with a signature customized for you. The book can also picked up this weekend along with a pair of slightly used tires for that special someone out at Irwindale Speedway. More »

5:56 PM on Fri Dec 15 2006
By Mike Bumbeck
106 views, Comment

news: racing

For Tire-Smoking Time, Make it Dorifto Time: Drift vs. Grip

Your friend and ours, the inimitable Starlet-hustling Starion lover, the enviable and thoroughly-mighty Bumbeck went and checked out the Drift vs. Grip event at Irwindale. Motorsports enthusiast and champion thrower of barbecues, Cole Coonce tagged along and summed it up thusly:
"Those who knew NASCAR were underwhelmed by the sophistication of the real D1 drifters, oblivious to the concept of style points, and seemed puzzled as to all the braking and turning and why a lap around the circuit took so long. It was like pouring ketchup on mochi ice cream."
We once threw our old roommate's chicken to thaw out behind the refrigerator when he left our mochi pillows out to melt. We also hate ketchup. More »

12:30 AM on Sat Sep 2 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
301 views, 4 comments

Latest by PeteRR: Car racing is to Drifting as Ice hockey is to Ice Dancing. more »

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Doriftorama! NASCAR Gets Sideways at Irwindale

We swear, our brain is so muddled these days that we'd forgotten to mention that the D1GP boys take on the NASCAR guys in the Drift vs. Grip challenge tomorrow. When the D1GP hit Las Vegas over a month ago, Toshiki Yoshioka, driver of the driftastic Malcontent Bee AE86 took the win from a certain Kumokubo-san in a Subie with over twice the horsepower. Let's see if he can rock Kasey Kahne's world this time out. And we wonder how many of the NASCAR boys will pit, complaining their cars are "pushing"? [Thanks to Pen for the reminder.] More »

9:45 PM on Wed Aug 30 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
194 views, 1 comment

Latest by Al Navarro: After buying and watching all the Initial D (bootleg/import versions with occasional "adult" content...Tokyo Pop just wasn't fast enough at churning out DVDs to feed my serial hungers) eps I could stand (I had to draw the line at "Fourth Stage"), I finally looked into the driftmasters and their art. Those more »