D1 Grand Prix Drift Comp (links to pics)

[novass]

Alright, so last sunday I went to a drift competition, and I fuckin loved it!! it was, as im told, the first time a comp of this caliber had come to the states and featured the best Japanese drifters.

heres a link to the event website, not much there but it tells you who from Japan was there
www.d1gp.com

I took my digital camera with the sole intention of takin pics to post here, but my friend just told me there is already 3 sites with 100 times more pics and better quality pics too, so for now ill link em, but if i see something i liked thats not on one of the sites and i have a pic of it, ill post it. if you have never gone to see a drift comp, i highly suggest going, these guys can fuckin drive!! i kinda thought a lot of the cars were "ricey" until i saw them on the track, some in the car show were rice, but some definitely were not. example Lexus SC430 with 460hp at the rear wheels! the guy drove the shit out of that thing, damn impressive!!

links to pics:
tons of drifting pics, models and cars in the show (look at the bottom, where it says CARS, MODELS, MISC and click on what you want to see)
http://www.autoimportcraze.com/coverage2.php?ShowID=87&car=2&Year=&Warn=0&menu=3

more pics
http://www.speedoption.com/events/1432/index.php?pg=1

bunch of drift footage
http://www.modified.com/events/articles/?13-410072.html


heres a couple of teasers...

for the Jabba. a Diablo with Nitrous!! fuckin nutters LOL, its hard to see but there are two bottles inbetween the seats, trust me, i stared at them for quite a while LOL
http://www.speedoption.com/events/1432/pic163.jpg

Nomura's wicked Skyline
http://www.modified.com/media/images/13-410072/gal/DSC_4082.JPG

go look at the sites, some insane cars and action. im still lookin for vids of it, anyone finds some let me know

[sbbs]

Thanks for the links man. I love drift stuffs. To me, it's the art of driving.

Are they going to organize D1 every year there?

[Jabba]

Great pictures Novass...thanks.....what did you think of the size etc of the Diablo ??? are there any pictures of that Diablo drifting ???

[rp]

you....lucky....f*ck!! :P :P

I wouldn't mind these guys comming to Europa, but I just don't see that happening.

HAHA, and it was even a Hachi that won... :lol:

[stracing]

hehe...these drift monkeys will drift anything. i read in an article how to drift a civic. the civic must be the benchmark for being an all rounder car in the auto industry.

coincidently uras splet backwards means monkeys in japanese but this time i don't see any monkeys on that skyline

[Anile8er]

yah my roomate went down there to and video taped some of it
i would of gone but i was to tired it was a 8 hour trip there

wed put some foottage up but i need a host for the video

[novass]

Great pictures Novass...thanks.....what did you think of the size etc of the Diablo ??? are there any pictures of that Diablo drifting ???

i wish they drifted the Diablo, that would have been amazing! but it was just in the car show :cry: LOL still good to see one from time to time. ive been meaning to take my camera to some of the car shops in Beverly Hills, but last time i went they gave me funny looks, pricks. they have all sorts of amazing cars in those shops. Jag XJ220, a raced out Diablo, bunch of Ferraris old and new, Shelby series one, tons of cars. one of these days ill go snap some photos

i love Diablos, the GT is my favorite cause i love orange/black scheme they did, i was simply amazed that someone actually put nitrous on it. needless to say it had quite a crowd around it for most of the day, so my pics of it didnt turn out too well, but i think i got a better shot thru the winshield showing off the bottles, ill post it later tonight when i get home.

[666fast]

Came across this not too long ago, thought everyone would like to see it.

http://www.northwestnissans.com/donations/nekopunch/movies/neko-d1fuji03.zip

[sbbs]

Came across this not too long ago, thought everyone would like to see it.

http://www.northwestnissans.com/donations/nekopunch/movies/neko-d1fuji03.zip

That's a great video, thank you for the link. Can't belive they can drift on such long corner. Very nice dog fight between Taniguchi and Imamura in the last part of the video.

[blah]

Anyone see the Video of like a Evo 6, or 7 drifting for like 30 seconds it seems! then drifts into a another corner with 1 hand, he had one hand out the window.

[sbbs]

Anyone see the Video of like a Evo 6, or 7 drifting for like 30 seconds it seems! then drifts into a another corner with 1 hand, he had one hand out the window.

You mean JUN Hyper Lemon Evo V RS? Yellow in colour, right?

[nismos13]

Might i add that the diablo was carrying 3 tanks of nitrous?? yes indeed. WEll all together the show was off the hook. The cars were nice, ance were finely tuned to the max. My main man in the blue s15 didnt do as well as i thougt, but the 86 showed everything he's got and made it a good nite.

[Billyjuan]

Has any1 seen the video of the JUN Supra doing that big drift and a bunch of smoke coming out?. thats a good video one of my favorites of my collection

[sbbs]

Has any1 seen the video of the JUN Supra doing that big drift and a bunch of smoke coming out?. thats a good video one of my favorites of my collection

Oh I have that one too! They do a lap test at first then the driver have fun drifting it around. That's the only drifting Supra video I have.

[f0racer]

You get to see a D1 competition LIVE! You lucky *&*#&$! I have a lot of their recent D1 Option videos, but always wanted to see it in person, especially when two drivers go head to head Initial D style.. Thanks for the links! Billyjuan's avatar is cool!

[TT]

More pics at http://www.carandmodel.com/ .. you have to register, but it's free and they have very big and good quality pics, of cars... and models :P

http://www.carandmodel.com/i/images/d1-animate-32c-nodither_200.gif

[DR.GONZO]

hahah nice pics nova ss I was there also, my friend's ans I were at the drift speed booth near the lambo they my buddy was working at the booth they had the silvia sr20 and 240z and nsx there, I got footage I was at the sidetrack, ken nomura was the best there that skyline kicks ass! I had fun big time that was tight shit!!

[novass]

^^^ haha thats funny, i probably saw you there. i should have made a post about it before i went to see if anyone was gonna be there. we need Jabbas World t-shirts or something so we can spot each other in a crowd.

ya it was very fun. i cant wait till the next one!

[DR.GONZO]

lol jabbas world t-shirts that would be kinda cool, yea I was probrobly the only person there wearing a old school camaro t-shirt, so you were track side too? did you see the rx7 crash both of those times and the r32? Yea for sure I am going to the next event!

[novass]

we didnt get the trackside tickets, i dont know why. i wish we would have, i saw the crashes i wish we had brought a video camera. i need to buy one