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Nov 18 2011, 10:00 AM
by
Charles Kha
with 6 comment(s)
It's not an easy decision to pack up your belongings and move to the other side of the world. You leave behind everything you love - your family, your friends, your home - and step into the unknown. At the beginning of this year, Fredric Aasbo did exactly that to chase a dream. Leaving Norway behind, Fredric moved to the States to join the Team Need for Speed ranks. Although Fredric always met the fans with a smile, I'm sure there were many hard moments behind the scenes. Out of the car,...
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Oct 12 2011, 04:30 AM
by
Linhbergh
with 4 comment(s)
A whole lot goes on during a Formula Drift weekend. There's the initial load in of all the different teams' rigs on Thursday, the countless workers that help set up the track, the drifting, and of course, the throngs among throngs of spectators. It's hard to imagine all that happens, but Larry Chen does quite the number and compresses a whole weekend at Irwindale Speedway, all its happenings, in two minutes and thirty seconds. -Linhbergh 2011 Formula D Irwindale Stories on Speedhunters...
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Posted
Oct 03 2011, 12:30 PM
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Charles Kha
with 11 comment(s)
Your eyes aren't deceiving you. That's right, to celebrate the launch of the new Need for Speed The Run game, NFS is giving away a 2012 Porsche Carrera S. No purchase is necessary; all you need to do is log in with your EA account or register for free . The competition is only open to the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. While we always try to do things on a global scale, sometimes we can't due to legal restrictions. Full competition details here . - Charles Kha Need for...
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Posted
Sep 08 2011, 11:00 AM
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Charles Kha
with 10 comment(s)
No doubt you followed the build of the Team Need for Speed RTR-X, which was a monumental project for not only Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Speedhunters, but also the many dedicated people who brought it to fruition. Team Need for Speed has just released this video by Will Roegge which provides some insight into how the RTR-X project came about. - Charles Kha Team Need for Speed Speedhunters RTR-X articles
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Posted
Jul 27 2011, 09:00 PM
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Charles Kha
with 4 comment(s)
Hot on the heels of Fredric Aasbo's driver blog on Gatebil is this quick video of him in action. A big thanks to Justin Shreeve for the edit! - Charles Kha Team Need for Speed
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Posted
Jul 26 2011, 03:00 PM
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Charles Kha
with 10 comment(s)
For the New Jersey round of FD, we wanted to do something a little bit different, so Will Roegge produced onboard footage of our drivers Fredric Aasbo and Matt Powers in 3D. So grab a pair of red and cyan glasses and enjoy! - Charles Kha Team Need for Speed
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Posted
Jun 30 2011, 03:30 PM
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Charles Kha
with 5 comment(s)
Our TNFS BMW Z4 GT3 has just become available in Need for Speed World, the online play-for-free game. World is a bit different to Need for Speed's other titles, as it's a Massive Multiplayer Online game where you race against other players in an open world. Recently World's registered players surpassed the 5 million mark. I must say it's quite cool to see our beloved Z4 - in its 24h Dubai winning livery - being hooned around streets rather than on a track! For more info visit Need...
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Posted
Jun 21 2011, 11:57 AM
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Rod Chong
with 10 comment(s)
Over the next few days, the Speedhunters team will be kicking off a big event production at the Nurburgring 24 hours. You'll be treated to extensive behind the scenes stories, galleries, live facebook updates, event reports and the like. I have every confidence in the world that we'll be able to take you into the heard of the Nurburgring 24Hs with some fantastic imagery and reporting. But as we get started with our coverage, I'd like to ask that you spare a thought for the drivers. After...
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Posted
May 06 2011, 07:00 AM
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Will Roegge
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To kick off the start of Team Need for Speed's FIA GT3 season, here's a look back at their 1st place run at the Dubai 24h race earlier this year. Hopefully this video sheds some light on what it's like to literally race around the clock, and is backed by an Ekstrak score. The TNFS Z4 GT3 dominated in Dubai, and I'm excited to see how the new improved Z4 does this season! - Will Roegge Team Need for Speed
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Posted
Apr 11 2011, 11:20 AM
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Rod Chong
with 9 comment(s)
Like a lot of you, I spent most of Saturday glued to my laptop screen, watching the proceedings from Formula D Long Beach. It was a bit of a bittersweet moment for me. On one hand, I'm absolutely ecstatic for Matt Powers and the Team NFS crew, but on the other hand I'm a little gutted I won't be part of the Formula D circus any more. I'm moving to Stockholm in a few days and will be focusing my attention on our various European projects there. So there just isn't time to be involved...
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Posted
Jan 24 2011, 04:00 PM
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Will Roegge
with 21 comment(s)
While following Team Need for Speed's European GT3 program we also had the opportunity to shoot FIA GT1 and to document SUMO Power's inaugural season. Along with Rod, I attended three races: Silverstone, Paul Ricard, and Algarve. The scene above is from Marsielle, France, a short drive from Paul Ricard. While the paddock at Silverstone was my first time seeing the SUMO car in person. The engine and exhaust note are unlike any other GTR I'd ever heard - since it's twin turbo V6 has...
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Posted
Nov 19 2010, 07:17 AM
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Rod Chong
with 46 comment(s)
Those of you who are connected to me on Facebook will know that I've been in Stockholm Sweden this week, working out of the EA DICE office. This is after back to back trips to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, London and Portugal too... Now for the first year or two, this serial travel was quite exciting, but I'm starting to get a bit burnt out here. I've been realizing that I just can't be everywhere at once and need to start pulling back from trying to Speedhunt at every single opportunity...
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Posted
Nov 16 2010, 07:16 AM
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Rod Chong
with 87 comment(s)
I'm sure all my collegues at Criterion Studios in the UK are rather excited right now, as it's a rather big day for them. They've taken on the challenge of building a Need for Speed game from scratch and by all accounts Hot Pursuit is the highest rated NFS racer ever. And today it was released. I've tried NFS Hot Pursuit out, and am extremely impressed with the results. It's a highly focused and addictive racing game. There's no doubt it's going to be one of the big hits...
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Posted
Nov 10 2010, 03:30 PM
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Will Roegge
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Hello! It's Will Roegge, Speedhunters filmmaker - with the latest speedhunters video project for your consumption. Over the summer, I posted a prompt and asked for your questions to Team Need for Speed: Matt Powers, Mad Mike Whiddett, Edward Sandstrom, and Patrick Soderlund. After going through your questions and selected a few to ask to the drivers. Combine that with unseen footage from FIA GT3 in Algarve, Portugal and Team Need for Speed - Drift at East Coast Bash and Formula Drift. Fresh out...
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Posted
Oct 20 2010, 02:00 PM
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Will Roegge
with 44 comment(s)
Team Need for Speed Drift wrapped up the 2010 Formula Drift season at Irwindale Speedway with both Matt Powers and Mike Whiddett making the top 16. Since the "Introducing Team Need for Speed - Drift" video in July - we've been following Matt and Mike at Seattle, Las Vegas, Sonoma, and finally Irwindale. Instead of releasing a film for each round, as a re-cap, we've created a mash up combining two different view points into a original crazy composition. DJ Miki Taka has been doing...
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Posted
Aug 13 2010, 04:30 PM
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Will Roegge
with 58 comment(s)
"Speedhunting, is a verb" - the act of hunting speed. Have you ever wondered who is responsible for the photography, reporting and creativity behind Speedhunters? What its like to be in the action of an FIA GT race? Or a jersey barrier away from Vaughn Gittin JR drifting in Formula Drift? I've turned the lens on the speedhunters that bring you global car culture on the daily. This is a behind the scenes look... ...at the FIA GT races at Paul Ricard with Jonathan Moore. ...at international...
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Posted
Jul 22 2010, 10:15 AM
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Will Roegge
with 18 comment(s)
Team Need For Speed - Drift is comprised of Formula Drift drivers: Mad Mike Whiddett and Matt Powers. The two drivers bring a unique perspective on professional drifting and equally unique drift machines. Mike's performance at the Red Bull World Drifting Championships caught my attention as a filmmaker; the note of the quad rotor Mad Bull Mazda FD RX7 is one I won't soon forget. Matt's fourth place finish at Formula D Irwindale 2009 also comes to mind - as I watched him transform from...
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Posted
Jun 09 2010, 03:41 PM
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Will Roegge
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This is the first Team Need For Speed film for 2010. It highlights Patrick Soderlund and the Team Need For Speed FIA GT3 team at the first races of the 2010 GT3 season - Silverstone. We were all eager for the first races on the new Silverstone configuration and first laps of the new BMW Z4 GT3 in competition. Personally, I was excited to shoot under the cloudy skies of the English countryside and witness my second FIA GT race. When we arrived at Silverstone, Linhbergh and I set straight away to shooting...
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Posted
Feb 19 2010, 09:30 PM
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Will Roegge
with 34 comment(s)
I love challenges. Where there is doubt, I find inspiration. This past January, we traveled to UAE to film a team driving a car for 24 hours straight, in a field of 75 plus cars, in the desert, in the grandest city in the world - Dubai. Having never filmed an endurance race, I was looking forward to the challenges presented by the event. The Audi documentary Truth in 24 had just beaten my short film Climb Attack for an award, so it was time to see if I could hang with the competition. At the Dubai...
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Posted
Feb 10 2010, 06:00 PM
by
Speedhunters
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So where has top kiwi drifter Mad Mike Whiddett been lately? In Onuma, Hokkaido – the northernmost tip of Japan that’s where – and he’s been working on a secret film project dubbed "Red Bull Drift-n-Ice". In a freshly built replica of his MADBUL Mazda RX-7, engineered by Japanese drift tuning shop Magic, and rolling on skinny WRC style studded snow tyres (with 275mm spacers!), it’s been Mike’s first taste of sliding on ice. Along for the ride, however...
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