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Walker Wilkerson was the one who actually made us aware of this Honda Jazz replica of his Formula Drift car and we just love it. I know you have seen NASCAR donks/replicas before but this is just awesome. It turns out someone in Japan loves Walker Wilkerson so much they are running his sponsor logos such as Fatlace, Seibon Carbon, and Haltech along with number plates (Walker is actually #95) that have a similar look to the Formula Drift one. This guy even nailed the wheel powdercoating with the same exact wheels that Walker runs in Formula Drift. Have you seen a Formula Drift replicated build like this before? If so, we would love to see some pictures!

UPDATE: I found the owner of this car on Instagram and he did correct us saying he lives in Indonesia and not Japan as we were told before.

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Marc had a great RD5…With the event being combined with the Pro and Pro Am drivers all in one day Marc did not get all that much practice time. For qualification he went out and put it down like usual and got himself in the 2nd qualification spot. Since there were a little less drivers then usual Marc’s top 16 battle was a by run.

Then going into the great 8 he was supposed to face Alex Gosselin but his engine let go right before heading out giving Marc and other automatic win.. His first real battle was against Tanner Munson. It was a great battle that had a bunch of door to door moments that resulted in a one more time run.. On the second run Marc sealed the deal and moved on to the final battle. He faced off against his good friend Francis Tasse. They have battled each other before and for this one Marc got the win!. Marc is now leading the championship races with a pretty good points advantage and two rounds left.

Marc went into rd6 leading the championship race and being at his home track RD6 was going to be a good event. Marc had a great practice session and was one of the fastest entering the course. Everything went very good through out the day despite it being very hot especially for a day in Septempber. Qualification started and Marc pushed hard as he always does and secured him the number one qualifying spot which would also get him a by run straight into the great 8.

In the great 8 he moved on over Simon Schaffner..He then faced Tom Tom in the final four… It was a good battle but as always Marc is a great chaser and took the win moving on to face Pat Cyr for the 1st place on the podium.. Marc put down a great lead run and Pat spun out in the dirt behind him pretty much giving the win to Marc right from that point.. Marcs Chase run was solid and he got the win. He now has a nice lead going into the final round that is taking place into this weekend at Sanair Raceway. This story was put together by DMCC photographer Jeremy Glover.

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The 5th round of the 2012 British Drift Championship kicked off with a great showing for the fans at Silverstone, and resulted in a second straight podium for Fredric Aasbo, but this time in the Speedhunters/Toyota GT86. Darren Skidmore was on hand to put together a great gallery highlighting the best moments of round 5.

Click HERE to view the full gallery.

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Tons of great coverage from the Round 6 weekend of Drift Mania by Jeremy Glover. The sliding Chevrolet S10 is back which we cannot get enough of including some great performance from Pat Cyr and Marc Landerville. Check out over 150+ images from the Canadian drift weekend.

Check out the Gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=313

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Brendan Stone took not only the event win but also the Prodrift Championship at Mondello today, taking out a star-studded lineup en route including his MG Crash Repairs teammate for the weekend Dai Yoshihara in the finals to cap off a run that started with Fredric Aasbo in the Top 16. Wes Keating took out 16-year-old Duane McKeever for the final podium position, Keating’s first podium of the season. James Deane had qualified first, but was eliminated by Dai Yoshihara (who qualified 16th) in the first round after a one-more-time. Darren McNamara unfortunately had mechanical issues and did not qualify for top 16, while Dean Kearney was eliminated by McKeever in the top 8.

1st – Brendan Stone – MG Crash Repairs S15
2nd – Dai Yoshihara – MG Crash Repairs / Falken Altezza
3rd – Wes Keating – WKD Imports S14
4th – Duane McKeever – S13

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With a total of 33 points available in the final round of ProDrift (25 for a win and up to 8 for qualifying), 8 drivers still have a shot at the championship. With hotshots Dai Yoshihara, Fredric Aasbo, and Darren McNamara all coming to ruin the party, this year’s ProDrift championship may come down to the very final run just like Formula D’s championship did last season. Brendan Stone will look to hold off James Deane (2008 and 2010 ProDrift champion) and Damien Mulvey (2005 ProDrift champion) as well as the headlining Formula D stars to take his first championship.

1 Brendan Stone – 82 points
2 James Deane – 78 points
3 Damien Mulvey – 77 points
4 Shane O Sullivan – 75 points
5 Paul McCarthy – 69 points
6 Gavin Lenihan – 58 points
7 Alan Lenihan – 55 points
8 Adrian Walsh – 50 points
9 Alan Sinnott – 47 points
10 John Paul McCarthy – 42 points

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Brennan from 702 Graphics in Las Vegas, Nevada tagged along with Odi Bakchis on this Formula Drift International affair to Colombia which also brought out Ross Petty and Jhonnattan Castro to compete over a weekend in a friendly demo. The event looks quite awesome from this video giving us one of the first looks into the Colombian Formula Drift international event.

Watch the video: https://vimeo.com/48831895

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The 6th round of Drift Mania wrapped up just hours ago, and Marc Landreville returned to the top of the podium for the second consecutive event. Landreville eliminated Pat Cyr in the final, who was in his AE86 Corolla for one of the final times as he is building an FR-S for next year. American Mike Pollard traveled north of the border for the holiday weekend to take home the final podium spot, his second podium of the season. We will have a full gallery later this week from our favorite eskimo photographer in all of Canada Jeremy Glover.

1st – Marc Landreville
2nd – Pat Cyr
3rd – Mike Pollard
4th – Tomy Boivert Bellemare

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This guy just put every dedicated and crazy drift photographer in the United States to shame by hopping over a guard rail and shooting on the track during tandem competition at a Polish drift event this weekend. Below you can watch a video of the tandem flying by as this guy just stands on track to snap some images. If only they used numbered vests like at FD we could identify him but shockingly no one behind him seems concerned that he is out on track either…. Anyway, link below has the video.

Watch the video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45a_1346697799

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Formula D’s Asia series was supposed to be a 4-stop series this season, but due to the cancellation of the third round in Thailand, will only have three stops this year. Daigo Saito won both of the first two rounds of this year’s FD Asia series (making it six consecutive wins for Daigo in Asia dating back to 2011), so it’s unlikely that any driver would have been able to catch him for the championship anyways.

Word on the street is that a local series is starting up in Thailand, along with D1 Thailand as well this year. It will be interesting to see how this affects the driver turnouts in years to come.

Source: http://www.formuladriftasia.com/blog/?p=2004

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