Samuel Hubinette is back in front of our cameras showing us around his 2008 Formula Drift competition machine: a supercharged 748bhp Dodge Viper SRT10. This is a continuation of our ongoing exploration of the convergence of drifting culture and American muscle cars. I'm still in a bit of awe as to just how professional the American drift scene is
For the next few car tours, we are going to be exploring the iconic high horsepower, high torque muscle cars that are currently dominating much of the grids in stateside Formula Drift events. V8 power is a big trend in US drifting; whether shoehorning a big block into a Saturn Sky chassis or building out a pony car Mustang. It's pretty challenging
The Drift Limo is gone long live the Drift Limo! Two time Formula Drift Champion Samuel Hubinette may have switched back to his trusty Viper for the 2008 Formula Drift Season but his 2007 car will be certainly remembered. It was one machine that always got a reaction from the crowd. The Charger was quite an unlikely choice of drift car given its sheer
This film causes me and the rest of the video dept at NFS pain every time we watch it. The reason being is that a small stone hit the lens of our HD camera while filming this and made a small chip. Luckily you can't see the chip when shooting, but still, it was a really stupid mistake on my part not to put a filter on the lens. Urgh! :< If you
Chris Rado is one of those individuals you only meet very rarely in life who appear to have enough energy and charisma to fuel a small army. The guy has extra batteries you know? Well, at any rate he's putting this energy to good use and is funneling it into his various drag, time attack and show car projects like this 500bhp Scion TC Time Attack
Ok next film. Let's look at the Signal Auto R34 Skyline GTR as presented by its builder: Kousuke Kida. This car previously was a championship winning drag car in Japan but now spends its life going sideways in the Formula Drift championship. I should probably say more about it here but I'm too tired after a long day at the NFS studio... brain
This past April, we travelled out to Round One of the European Drift Championship to check out the UK drifting scene. The event was held at the famous race circuit Donington Park and was won by the 2007 European Drift Champion, Brett Castle. We were quite impressed with his drifting skills and also the build quality of his machine. What we were NOT