Odi just posted some awesome photos of his 240sx with a brand new look for 2012 thanks to the guys at 702 Graphics. His new title sponsor is M7 is represented along with his other partners Feal Suspension, DSTROYR, and Nexen Tire. He did mention in his e-mail to us he is working on  bringing along some other partners before the Streets of Long Beach rolls around. Hands down this might become one of my favorite cars in Formula Drift for 2012!

Photo Credit: Oliver Petalver

A nice Monday afternoon just got a whole lot better after we found this Porsche destroying a great set of tires in the name of fun. The Porsche came courtesy of the Luxury4Play Faecbook page who highlights anything and everything about luxury cars. This is a snapshot of a Porsche actually at speed sliding around unlike most “drifting” exotic cars that are just spinning in circles so we approve.

Photo Source: Philipp Lücke

This mystery tire company that is sponsoring Bridges Racing turns out to be Achilles Tire. The Bridges Racing program is jumping up into a three car program with Daigo Saito, Robbie Nishida, and Armando “Dio.” We have already reported that Robbie Nishida is building a Lexus SC300 and we have word that Daigo Saito is currently building a Lexus SC430 in Japan for his 2012 ride. This is a change from an earlier report that he was driving the APEX’i Lexus SC430. We imagine that Dio will be in the 2009 Championship Chassis Nissan 350z he ran for a few events last year.

A quick verification of the latest 2012 rulebook shows  that the Achille ATR Sport and 123S tires are both approved tires under Appendix C in Section 2. It sounds like they will be the only three on this tire for 2012 but they are making quite a big push for the new season so no telling how things wind up!

The Scion Racing tC that ran with Ken Gushi and Hankook Tires for 2011 might not be retired from the sport after all. The rumormill is abuzz this weekend that Drift Alliance member Tony Angelo will be given the tC to run his 2012 season. Not really sure of the Scion tC will have 100% factory support like it did in 2011 with Ken Gushi but we can imagine some of the vehicle sponsors are coming along with the former Formula Drift judge for 2012. This sounds like a great start to the new season for a driver who hasn’t been behind the wheel in Formula Drift for several years. What do you think about Tony Angelo driving this Scion tC?

We have been covering the Scion FR-S over and over again over the past few months but it really is the best new release of a drift ready chassis. Ken Gushi when he was in Japan made his own personal video of drifting around in the Scion FR-S. You cannot really hear the audio of him talking very well with his personal camera he mounted on the car. Ken does note that he was asked to not beat on the car very hard so he did take it a little easy. Check below for the 5 minute in car view of Ken Gushi drifting the Scion FR-S (with ease) around this track in Japan. Follow the link below to check out the video.

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The 2012 AMA Supercross season kicked off recently at the Angeles Stadium in Anaheim and will make quite a run over the next few months until the finals in May which take place in Las Vegas. The series now has Falken Tire in place as the official truck tire of the series where they sponsor rider Ryan Villopoto. The new 30 second Supercross spot features Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Justin Pawlak ripping it up on the track along with the Falken Tire ALMS Porsche. Commercial is in the link below:

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The two Toyota 86 (Scion FR-S in America) heading to the D1 Grand Prix series next year have already been seen doing tandem at the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon. The car is gaining more and more hype by the minute and it might even convert into car sales. I just love this old school HKS look that NOB will be driving in 2012. The Hibino car also marks the return of Falken Tire to the D1GP series. Check the link below to watch the videos of these two Toyota 86 cars doing tandem!

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The 2012 Xtreme Drift Circuit series has just announced a schedule that has 7 events on the calendar down from the 8 events last year. No more PGP for 2012 and an additional event in Buffalo, New York at Dunn Raceway Park.

Round 1 – Irwindale Speedway (Los Angeles, California) – March 3rd
Round 2 – Firebird Raceway (Phoenix, Arizona) – April 14th
Round 3 – Central Florida Racing Complex (Orlando, Florida ) – May 19th/20th
Round 4 – Summit Point (West Virginia) – June 16th
Round 5 – Dunn Racewa (Buffalo, New York) – July 21st
Round 6 – DMCC in USA Vs. Canada (Montreal, Canada) – September 2nd/3rd
Round 7 – Texas Motor Speedway (Dallas, Texas) – September 22nd

One of Patrick Mordaunt’s crew members John Jimison posted this up on Facebook this morning and we cannot manage to find this car anywhere else. From the best we can tell the car is for Nobuteru Taniguchi and the return of his awesome HKS style that we grew to love back in the days of D1GP. It looks like he will be joining Hibino in the 2012 D1GP season who was shown driving his Toyota 86 earlier this week.

Another car parked at the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon this weekend is Mad Mike’s newest creation Drift-N-Ice which is a Redbull Energy Drink x Speedhunters FD Mazda Rx-7. Made Mike released this news on his website this morning and sadly he hasn’t been able to turn a wheel in the car yet! Here is what he has to say about the build and opportunity:

 “For me this is a dream come true, to be given this opportunity to compete in Japan and team alongside Kawato San again is an honor. We paired in 2010 for the Red Bull project ‘Drift-N-Ice’ using Kawato’s 13b turbo powered FD RX7 for the job and I was impressed with the performance and workmanship. For the past few months now we’ve been exchanging emails with the team at Magic Co, they’ve built an amazing car for me and I can’t wait to get some seat time.”