You know, I've been going to race tracks all my life, but I've never, ever seen anything like Ebisu Circuit. Set into the hills of the Fukushima District in Japan, it's a series of 8 tracks, each specifically designed for drifting. What a thought! What is even more amazing to me, is the automotive culture that surrounds the track complex
While we were at the Ebisu Circuit Natsumatsuri - Summer Drift Festival, I couldn't take my eyes off this GX71 Toyota Cresta that was running Ebisu's Touge course! It's no secret that I absolutely love 1980sToyotas, but just look at how clean this Cresta is! This is a Toyota Cressida in the USA... isn't this clean Cresta inspiring? I
More AE86s again?! Are you serious? Yes I'm serious. After all, we post photos of S13s and S14s and S15s all day anyway. I think I have the right to show a little more 86 love on here! As the Ebisu Summer Drift Festival was wrapping up, I spotted this trio of AE86 Levins at Ebisu West Course. I was immediately drawn to inspect the white N2 flared
Since my previous images from the Ebisu Circuit Summer Drift Festival (aka Natsumatsuri ) seemed to get a pretty good response from Speedhunters readers, I wanted to show you guys a few more photos from this year's event. I was pretty disappointed that my friends from the Kanagawa-based AE86 team named Peak couldn't make it to the festival;
“You are next”, said Antonio to me. Immediately the butterflies started. We had set our video and photo cameras up next to a section of the infamous Touge course at Ebisu Circuit and were watching Team Orange’s leader Kumakubo and fellow Speedhunter Naoto Suenaga doing ride-along tandem battles in their S13 demo/practice cars. Now
Ahh, Ebisu. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I'm absolutely in love with this place. It's not just the cars... it's the sights and sounds... and the people at Ebisu Circuit that make this place so special. We've been here at Ebisu Circuit for the past few days, hanging out with good friends from different parts of the world (namely
If Irwindale Speedway is the House of Drift then surely Ebisu is the Temple no?
Most people tend to live their lives in some kind of reality tunnel . You see life from your own perspective and tend to push your own value judgements onto your perceptions of the world. Perhaps the most evolved of us live in a very wide tunnel with a semi-objective viewpoint, while some of us live in very narrow bands, and are unable to see anything
As a self confessed technology geek and automotive hyperfan, I've spent a disproportionate amount of my adult life messing with car racing video games. This used to be a point of contention between me and my lovely wife, but luckily I was able to make gaming my main career. No longer could my lady complain I was playing too many games and wasting