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The following two days went by fairly fast. Most of our time we spent going to the big street markets to find some cool stuff to bring home. The big market we liked was a little too far to walk to, so we got courageous and headed to the streets to get some cabs.
Gabe Stone had a bad day at TD ProAm Round 5, but with three podiums under his belt he was still able to finish the season 2nd in points to clinch a 2012 pro license!
As some of you may know, Justin Shreeve and I got the opportunity to join Larry Chen in filming the World Drift Series in Tianjin, China. Our Journey began Saturday night, as we were meeting Larry and the U.S. drivers for the event at LAX. Justin and I arrived to the airport a few hours […]
A few months ago, Geoff and I were rolling around west Oakland when we spotted this building with two walls covered in graffiti. Oakland is no stranger to graffiti, but this stuff was different. On the south wall, there seemed to be a lot of Japanese manga or anime influence, as well as a few […]
Joey Gauthier is the owner of Oakland’s (and probably the world’s) best spot for Toyota modification, Performance Options. PO is responsible for some of the Bay Area’s most legendary drift cars, like Xander Newell’s S13, Richard Kong’s SR20 AE86 Corolla, Rick Cunanan’s F22 Turbo powered AE86, and his own Formula Atlantic 4A-GE powered AE86, just […]
Off with the old and on with the new. As some of you may know, Justin and I recently picked up some new kicks for our cars. His 17×10.5 +11 Work VS-KFs and my 17×10.5 +11 Work VS-XXs would be the first proper set of wheels that our cars have worn. Justin wasted no time […]
Round 5 marked the end of the TD ProAm season, where the leaders found out if they could stay ahead and the middle of the pack found out if they could catch up. When the smoke settled, four new Formula DRIFT pro licenses were given away.
ThunderDrift’s Super-Am is a series of single-run skidpad drifting competitions designed to get drivers ready for ProAm. It’s not a requirement for ProAm, just a way for newer drivers to see how they fare in a low-risk competition environment. There’s even a 2-event cap on the number of previous competitions a driver has been to, […]
Congrats to Rhys “Mad Skills” Millen to his win and first podium finish since Long Beach in 2010. Yep, the 2005 champ is still a force to be reckoned with in pro drifting.