Now for your high resolution viewing pleasure - Calvin Wan putting the back tires of his Falken S15 into the dirt during qualifying at Formula Drift Atlanta last Friday. Widescreen and standard versions are available now in the Speedhunters Desktops section. -Mike Garrett
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
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
On the night before the Motoring J Style show in Northern California, my friend Tobin and I drove from Los Angeles to Calvin Wan's house in San Francisco. When we arrived at Calvin's house around 3:00am, we were surprised when we saw the garage lights on, and Calvin greeted us at the garage door, wearing dirty mechanic's gloves and his signature