These days James Deane might even be 18 years old but I don’t even think we are really sure on that fact at all. The days of watching James Deane wheel the “undriftable” Falken S15 around Long Beach are practically a distant memory in our lives sadly. However, James is still active in Europe competing with his awesome FD Mazda Rx-7. Here is an almost 10 minute walk through of how his 2012 season went down.
Watch the video: http://vimeo.com/54399540#at=0
Next week during the 2012 Formula Drift Asia finals you will get to see Fredric Aasbo driving the RSR Toyota Supra pictured above. The event will be taking place in Jakarta, Indonesia to close out the 2012 Formula Drift Asia championship. Other Formula Drift drivers such as Ken Gushi have hopped into this car during previous events and had some decent success in the Asia series. We are sure Fredric Aasbo cannot wait to get back inside a MKIV Toyota Supra for a drift weekend.
The South African Otto Graven is rumored to be planning a huge comeback to Formula Drift in 2013. Otto missed the complete 2012 season after his debut season in 2011 with this ALMS engine equipped Nissan 350z. The last we really talked about him was in December 2011 when we caught wind of his court case in South Africa about abandonment and some unpaid contracts here in the United States. Now the rumor is Formula Drift is heading to South Africa for an international demo in early 2013. We should have more news on Otto Graven as Long Beach gets closer but it sounds like he will have a whole new build for 2013 that isn’t a Nissan.
We have kept in tune with the EEDC series this season as it traveled around Eastern Europe this season. Last weekend the whole thing came to the end in Poland. The Monster Energy Drink x Kenda Tire driving Dmirty Illyuk of Ukraine was able to secure a championship with his S13. Here is how the rest of the championship chase finished up:
1. Dmitriy Illyuk (Ukraine)
2. Gvido Elksnis (Latvia)
3. Janis Eglite (Latvia)
Round 7 is in the books for the 2012 Eastern European Drift Championship with a crazy round in Poland. The PUZ drift team practically dominated the event taking home 2 out of 3 places on the podium as the EEDC season comes to a close before the weather turns to freezing. Take a look at how the podium finished up:
1- Marcin Malpa Skwierczynski (PUZ Drift Team)
2- Grzegorz Hypki (PUZ Drift Team)
3- Maciej Bochenek (BUDMAT Drift Team)
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.
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.
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
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
Here is Round 5 coverage from Montmagny which was a delayed event due to the monsoon that rolled by the track the week beforehand. Well Jeremy Glover still went out to tackle the Canadian drifting series delayed round and brought us back some fantastic coverage of the drift weekend. This is our favorite course of the Canadian series at Wrecked Magazine and it really brings some fantastic tandem action from up north.
Check out the Gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=309
