So what do we do when we arn’t driving our life size cars? We drift RC cars. We use to have quite a few big RC nights where all the team / friends would get together and battle it out all night. We dont do it as much now days but every now and then we will pull them out for a quick spin around Hoshino’s track at his workshop.

My personal car, I’m not huge on looks but its got a tuned ECU, aftermarket engine, locked front and rear diffs, plastic / rubber mix tires for higher speed drifting and bad ass scando flicks, something you can’t do running normal hard plastic tires.

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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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D1 Grand Prix the worlds biggest drift competition, where people are made and people are broken, where you get to mix with the worlds best in a sport that demands everything from you as lay rubber across the tarmac at over 180kph only inches from your rival. This world is often seen as the highlight of drifting what real drifting is about, where people who have spent years and countless hard earned dollars to travel around Japan fighting their way through the ranks to finally be given an official D1GP license. Now its time for all those years of dedication and practice to shine through as you face up against some of the biggest names in drifting, you lay everything down for the chance to make a name for yourself and one day be lucky enough to win the D1 Grand Prix.

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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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