
Name: Vaughn Gittin Jr. aka JR
Location: Glen Burnie, Maryland
Previous Location's: Maryland my whole life but I have been fortunate enough to travel my share of the world!
Career Path: Destroyer of Falken tires and professional Drifter
Previous Career paths: Worked at Wendy's flipping burgers, owned my own mobile car detailing business, project manager and designer for the implementation of large scale wireless networks in high class communities, information technology manager for well known economic consulting firm.
Notable Projects/Wins: 2007 D1GP World Champion, 2005 D1GP USA vs. Japan Champion, Formula Drift Hardest Charger Award 2004-2006
Cars: 2005 Ford Mustang, Lexus GS300, 1993 Nissan 240sx coupe, 1955 Chevy 2 door hard top
Fav Past cars: 1964 Cutlass with hydraulics, 1988 Maxima, Toyota Tercel 3 door (best car to jump ever)
Next car: Porsche GT3 or 911 slant nose
Car Passions: I got my first taste of speed when I got a go kart for my 4th birthday. I was immediately in love. My father had a slew of sick cars throughout my childhood so I would always beg him to take me to races. At age 13 I got my first dirt bike and found another love. I raced motocross pretty heavily from 16-20. At age 18 I got my first of over ten 240sx's I have owned. I would spend every dollar I had just burning tires down, powerslides donuts and just fun driving with it. I then learned of drifting and found my true love and passion. I worked my IT job to support my drifting habit and here I am living a dream drifting for a living. I have always loved fast cars and motocross. In the last 6 years of being heavily into drifting I have also become interested in V8 supercar racing and time attack as well as the Mustang challenge series and hope to test myself in those events as well
Personal style: Well used jeans, t-shirts and DC shoes < that's me.
Favorite band of the moment: It is absolutely impossible for me to name that...Motley crue, old AFI, Rise against, Hellacopters
Personal Motto: Ready to Rock!