This is part I of the coverage in the 3 piece series giving you a never before seen insight into the drifting madness within Japan. I say never before seen because not person has filmed an Ebisu Drift Matsuri where they have put themselves only inches from then panel smashing body breaking action.

Sit back and enjoy a general overview of the weekend from a drift perspective, let the engine noise and panel bending symphony drop you right into the action. The next inclusion in the series will be more about the inner workings of the community at these events, followed up by an action packed wall tapping car crashing video.

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Its the start of an insane weekend and to kick it off is the heart stopping breeze that brushes across you skin instantly waking you up from your slumber. Its a weekend like no other, its Ebisu Drift Matsuri! Three events a year held at the world famous Ebisu circuit over the course of 2 days, ohhh did I forget to mention 2 days 32 hours non stop drifting from sunrise to sunset. Ebisu is scattered with more tracks in one location then you could ever dream of and filled with hundreds of people all with the same passion for drifting.

There is no event on this earth that can compare to the pure insanity that happens at a Drift Matsuri, the countless crashes and cars rolling around on their roofs, the people you meet and friends you make all come together to make one event you will never forget.

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Past couple of months I have seen quite a few cars roll in and roll out oh Hoshino’s workshop, here are 2 of the boys car from Team Geki (Geki Kassou Dan). They were running close tandems at Nikko when another car spun infront of Koro’s S14.5 and well his car along with Pant’s car could not pull up in time and contact was made, quite a bad crash damage wise.

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Say Japan and the next word you think of is Touge and we have plenty of it around Gunma. Gunma was made famous by the well known manga series Initial D and its easy to see why this manga series was based around Gunma due to the large amount of bordering mountains and the touge it contains.

Broken S14 at Kiryu touge.

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Had a new Real Dream front bar sitting in my house for like a year now, thought I might change out the old basher circuit bar for the new item i had laying around.

Unsure if I like it or not, been use to the basher bar for so long now.

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When I first landed in Japan I refused to buy a car that I could get back in Australia, for me there is no fun in modifying a car that I have already owned or I have seen parked on every corner street so I set out on the hunt for a JZX100. I slowly started to notice that the JZX100 was parked on every corner street in Japan and at any local track day they would make up the large majority of cars in the field. This coupled with the fact they have a chassis about as rigid as banana and after one good crash it would also be shaped like a banana my good friend Hoshino from Hoshino Car Style told me a JZX90 would be the best bet due to the smaller numbers seen on track days and a much stronger and stiffer chassis design, I agreed as he would be the one fixing my car when I crashed it.

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This once straight Work rim and AE86 are no longer after a spirited run around one of  many the local Gunma touges went sour.
I first took this picture at ORC (Ogura) Clutch’s garage here in Gunma, then like most cars that crash in this area it ended up at my buddies workshop (Hoshino Car Style) for some much needed repairs.

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