Jordan Butters
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I was kindly invited over to Lousada, Portugal to cover the annual KD European DNYRace, an invitational event playing host to 50 drivers from 5 countries, battling it out for a €4000 prize fund and respect at one of Europe’s most unforgiving and technical tracks.
It’s pretty difficult to be different these days, even when it comes down to choosing a suitable chariot to turn into a competitive drift machine. This is where Jareck ‘Jeek’ Frederico and his BMW 5 Series V8 E39 comes in.
An invitational event comprising of 50 drivers from 5 nations, the crazy weekend in Lousada is one of our favourites here at Drifted, so we were stoked to be invited back this year to cover the event. Madness contained within.
I say it every year, but if there was only one drift event I could make it to each year, it would be the KD European DNYRace in Lousada, Portugal. For one weekend this sleepy Portuguese town is transformed into a drift nirvana and nothing prepares you for it.
With the Semi Pro and Pro Classes settled in the 2011 Maxxis Tyres British Drift Championship it’s time to settle the all important Super Pro class. As the sun started to drop over the Nissan Factory in Sunderland it was time for business, down to the nitty gritty, game-face time. All bets were off and everyone was going hard for the win.
The North of England. Home to heavy industry and mineral extraction in years gone by. The prominent giant steel structure of the Angel of the North towers down over any visitor from the South, a reminder of where you are and the industrial history that surrounds you. For one weekend only, the British Drift Championship was in town.
The annual Wembley event is the feather in the cap of the Drift Allstars season. Real professional drifting in the heart of the capital city, an ‘if the people won’t go to the racetrack, we’ll bring the racetrack to the people’ kind of affair.
We’re up at the Nissan Manufacturing Plant in Sunderland for the Final round of the 2011 British Drift Championship. All three titles for the three respective classes hang in the balance on this final round. Qualification took place today under changing weather conditions and varying grip levels, the top qualifiers for tomorrow’s main event are as follows
It’s Wednesday! So in the name of alliteration here’s another Wallpaper to adorn your computer or phone screen with. Except we failed on the alliteration and called them Desktops. So it’s Desktop Wednesday! It kind of works.
The British Drift Championship Super Pro round at Silverstone had been playing on my mind for a few weeks. The audience at the TRAX event would be the largest that the BDC would see throughout the season and the pressure of hosting a competition event in and amongst the allotted track time slots at the event is pretty high.
Take one of Europe’s best known professional GP race circuits, a huge crowd raring for some drift action, some guest drivers from Formula Drift, the UK’s and Europe’s finest Super Pro drivers, some rain for drama and a whole lot of smoke and you have a recipe for an amazing drift event. Check out our report!
A treat dropped through the door at Drifted HQ today in the form of two very cool looking bags with the catchy Lowly Gentlemen logos printed onto them. As the packaging suggests, they are purveyors of ‘quality automotive apparel and accessories’ and are turning heads from their new base in California.
You guys asked for it over on our Facebook page so here it is in glorious high resolution. Stephen Biagioni’s Team Japspeed 1JZ Subaru Impreza smoking up a set of Maxxis MA-Z1 Drift tyres into the first corner at Silverstone. Full British Drift Championship report from Silverstone coming this week, along with some more desktops!
Formula D’s Fredric Aasbo took 1st place at today’s British Drift Championship Super Pro Round 5 at Silverstone Circuit. Aasbo piloted his famous insane-angle Toyota Supra to victory against Driftworks’ Phil Morrison in the Final earlier on this afternoon.
