With another early start came another day in Japan. The winter air was crisp and chilly, the cars were packed with tools and tyres, and we were up and ready for our first full day of drifting at the legendary Bihoku Highland Circuit. After the scenic cruise up to the track we made it to […]
After what felt like weeks staying in Nagoya, we made the long train journey(s) over to Osaka where we would be meeting up with Shane Bingham from K-Tours, along with Ewan Paterson, Josh Handke, and John Dollison. We spent the first evening in Osaka down at Shane’s garage prepping the cars for the long journey […]
MCR Factory, which stands for Mind Control Racing, is owned and run by Masashi Yokoi. Yokoi is one of the most up and coming drivers in Japan who has had much sucess in D1 Street Legal, MSC, and more recently, the Drift Muscle series. You only have to search Youtube or the videos on our […]
The Outsiders crew met and made friends with some great people during our time in Japan, and one of those people is Kazumasa Sekido. We met him at Kids Heart, which is where he works, and Phil even got to drive with him later on in the trip. Sekido got introduced to drifting when he […]
If you’ve seen the Outsiders DVD you may remember the incredible shots at Bihoku Highland Circuit that Al captured of Pieter Gouwy’s S13 Silvia and the K-Tours S14 that Phil was driving. Well here’s a wallpaper I shot from the same moment! Click for sizes 1280 X 720 and 1980 X 1020. – Daniel Bridle […]
Despite my head exploding inside from the previous nights beer fueled kareoke and the gloomy looking weather, our fourth day in Japan was one that I’d been excited about since the day I first laid eyes on the trip itinerary. On this day we’d be spending our time in Nagoya on one single road visiting […]
After an intense night of street drifting, running from the Japanese 5-0, and with some of us being awake for almost 30 hours, we decided to have a day to relax and, er, look at even more cars. So after a stop at Starbucks to wake ourselves up, we went for drive through the very […]
If there’s one way of getting a sense of just how big drifting has become over the years, it’s through the rise of remote control drifting. What started out as simple replica car kits from companies like Yokomo, has exploded into a huge new world of customization. These days there is about as many aftermarket […]
