Hello Speedhunters! This is my first event Blog of 2010 and I was hoping to be writing it in better spirits but to be honest I’m a little pissed of with my result from Long Beach last weekend. At unloading time on Thursday I was super confident and had a great feeling for the upcoming event. The Falken Tire Saturn Sky looks so good this year in
Hello Everyone – my name is Darren McNamara and I drive the Falken Tire/Sears Auto Centre Saturn Sky in Formula Drift. I am one of those lucky people who gets to live out their dream job every month. I first raced a car when I was 11 years old, it was an 850cc Mini. It was actually a 12-16 year one make old oval racing class, but my dad got me
So last December I took a cross-country trip with my pal Brian Scotto - the editor of 0-60 Magazine - in a 2010 Ford Mustang GT. Now that the 0-60 Magazine feature "East Bound and Down" is on news stand's - go get it, it's a great read - I can share some of the cool things we did and saw along the way. After leaving LA ,our first stop
Here’s a sneak peak of my new competition car for the 2009 Formula D season. The new Falken Nissan S15 Silvia. I have always been a fan of S-Chassis. I believe that S-Chassis are the benchmark of drift cars and the S15 is the final evolution of the proven chassis series. This S15 has been a car that I have idolized every since I first got heavily
After a very eventful 3 days of drifting at Portland International Raceway for the Final Formula D Team Drift Competition of the year, Team Drifting Performance was able to pull off a 1st place finish. It was my first time to this amazing track. The course features very fast and technical corners. The judged portion of the track started with a long
Round 4 of the 2008 Formula D Championship was held in a huge parking lot course at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Now when most people think of a parking lot course, you picture a big, safe wide open lot with a bunch of cones everywhere and nothing to hit. However, when Formula D sets up a parking lot course, they try to make the course as fast, treacherous
This last Formula D Round was held at a new competition track at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park's roadcourse, in Englishtown, New Jersey. It was my first time I have ever been on that track, but it instantly became my new favorite Formula D track. I love drifting on technical road courses that have fast accelerating, first corner entries and that
WARNING!!! This should not be read by those with a weak stomach!!! I have been waiting for a long time to publicly tell this story and share this build to the world. Out of respect for my friends at Super Street and unwritten industry laws, I had to wait for the feature to be released before I could spill the beans. For those of you that haven't
For this blog entry, I am going to give you guys a little intro about myself, show you some of my past cars I have driven and tell you how I got into this whole drifting craziness. I was born and raised in San Francisco, Ca. Being up in the “Bay Area,” there was only a select few that knew about drifting early on during the mid 90’s