Turner Field We Missed You, Glad You're Back

Finally our pictures exhumed themselves from the tomb of Russel's hard drive and have come back as drifting pics worth printing out and putting on your next resume. Turner Field holds a special place in my heart and I'm sure a lot of other people, when it comes to drifting. It was gone but not forgotten and now it has returned to the grassroots homeland of drifting in GA. So lets get to it, Turner Field by S2, Round 1!!!

Euro Snaps - Cars Spotted in Europe

A friend of the RaceFriv community took a trip to Europe and while he was out and about he saw some fun cars and took pictures for us.  So lets 'ave a butchers at 'em (thats my English slang showing through) and thanks to Bryan for passing these on to us.

Some Star Cars!

So I recently hit up Dragon Con 2011, it was insane as always. I checked out the parade to see what would come by and to my surprise there were some pretty sick cars in it. My friend Audet  took a few pics so I stole a few from his camera and figured I'd show to everyone on here. Enjoy!

Random Snap: Red Supra

This guy came out to Watermelon Speedway for the last Clipping Point. I have to say...thats a pretty sweet ride.

Snake charming a GT500 Shelby Mustang

We dont usually feature cars that are totally bone stock, but when we do its because they are bat gauno insane.  We took a look at a C6 Z06, here is Fords Orange to the Corvettes Apple, The Mustang GT500.  The mustang is a different kind of animal from the vette, and not just for having 2 more seats in the back.  This is more of a muscle car than a sports car, and in most respects a more practical and comfortable car too.  However having 550hp on tap from the factory and the ability to turn the boost up and make totally ridiculous power with Ford approved parts makes this car popular with the bang/buck crowd.

Click read more to see our photos and impressions.



It rained on us really hard when the owner Robert arrived.  We had to do some drying before we got down to business.



Pursuit of Happiness

If you read here often you know that recently we went on a massive road trip from Washington (the state) to Georgia driving down the 101 then past Reno, through the Rockies, to the great plains and across the Mississippi to home. Sometime when your driving for four straight days you get a little board so I took some video here and there. Also the song playing is that one song you remember from that trip, you know what I'm talking about. That one song that seemed to define the trip you went on. This song seemed to play every 15min and I never got tired of it.

If you missed the post check them here, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Some are built for comfort, but these were built for speed.

Some cars are built for laptimes, some for gas mileage, some for practicality, but few cars are built for pure joy. Click read more if you would like to peer into the soul of a pair of one of the greatest Japanese sports cars ever built. 

Random Snap...911's in Savannah.

There were quite a few 911's down for a meet in Savannah last week. Didnt get a lot of pictures of the many that were down there. But here are a couple, seeing them all week added from a  cool to have list, to a must have list, especially the GT3 RS we saw. Sick! Heres a couple I got close too.

3500 Miles, One S2000, 12 States, 4 days..... One Epic Road Trip Part.4

So its taken me quite a while to get to this last part with racefriv being busy with other projects lately, but better late than never, here you are, the final chapter in our great american road trip.

The racefriv at Clipping Point Video

OMG OMG OMG...... Our big hairy hipster robot (Phil Ball) finally pooped out the Clipping Point video and wow. Just watch its sick!



The Clipping Point from racefriv on Vimeo.

Clipping Point Drift Practice. Drift Flu

So Racefriv.com made it out again to Clipping Points drift practice round. As always we had an awesome time. This was one of those events that just had a great vibe from beginning to end despite the pouring down rain. Honestly the rain made it a whole lot better between the rain drifting and the "other" distractions it was truly an event like no no other.

State of the Tuning

Read a post on speedhunters.com today and it was one of the better post Ive ever read on there (and I love them all). I added to the comments, realizing I went on a bit of a rant, I decided to copy it here with a few photos of home made awesomeness, because the people they interviewed seemed pretty negative about the community and I disagreed.

Awesome Video of the Clear to Drift event.

Clear to Drift from Kevin Wilson on Vimeo.

3500 Miles, One S2000, 12 States, 4 days..... One Epic Road Trip Part.3

So we have driven the epic US101 down the coast, ate breakfast at a casino, and played with trash in the great salt flats. Its time to move from the flat desert land into the great Rocky Mountain Range. The journey has been long and hard so far, but we had no idea what was coming for us next. If you want to check out the past two posts,  part one is here and part two is here. If you like squirrels and discount tire then read below.

A Lesson In JDM

A lot of people talk about JDM these days. JDM stands Japanese Domestic Market meaning cars or whatever made for only the Japan market. Today JDM is used for so much more, people have put JDM branding on everything these days. Its really sad that "JDM" is almost looked down upon these days mainly becuase of all the ebay'rs, craiglisters, and trash talkers that call everything under the sun JDM just to sell a few products to some out of the loop kids. But it wasnt always like that. There was once an amazing time where JDM truly stood for something and our good friend TJ is here to show what a true JDM car is really about.

Clear to Drift 2011

So racefriv.com made it out to Clear to Drift hosted by StreetWiseDrift in Thomson, GA this past weekend, and no doubt it was the most professional drift event I've seen in GA besides the Formula D events. Held at the Thomson airport to raise money for the tiny city of Thomson; throw in drag racing, gymkhana, drifting and a car show...and you have pretty sick event on your hands.

3500 Miles, One S2000, 12 States, 4 days..... One Epic Road Trip Part.2

So this is Part 2 of our amazing S2000 cross country trip. Part one can be found here 3500-miles-one-s2000-12-states-4-days-Part 1. The first leg of our journey was the easiest part of our trip. Now its time for the long haul.

3500 Miles, One S2000, 12 States, 4 days..... One Epic Road Trip Part.1

People always say the journey is the destination, In this case my destination was truly a journey. One journey that included 17 hour drives, eating at a casino, jack and cokes, giant trees, freezing deserts, hot mountain sides, staying at the dead hooker inn, feeding squirrels, endlessly searching for premium gas, singing karaoke, and driving an amazing convertible across an entire country.  This was our journey.

4:00am Tofu Delivery

"The peaceful morning of Mt. Akina was awaken by the induction sound of a 20valves 4AGE spinning near 10,000rpm, driven by Takumi Fujiwara, drifting through the 5 continuous hairpin; he trail-brake passed the entrance and the rear bumper of the Hachiroku started to slide towards the guard rail, leaving only10 centimeter of room..."

speed limits - and why you can drive a bit faster than them

So this is an op-ed piece, take it for what its worth - less than 2 cents - and in no way represents sound legal advice.  It comes from hours of driving a two lane road to work, a road with only a few passing opportunities and a 55 speed limit.  Some drivers really try to stick to the 55 speed limit, others (like me) prefer the 60-65 range.  Those aiming for 55 often slow down for turns and hills resulting in a mismatch between expectations and reality for people like me (that's my polite way of saying that they're blocking the fucking road)

I want to use totally infallible logic to explain why doing more than the speed limit is OK, and why it should be expected and why most people should do it.  I realize that of course this might seem a little odd considering the speed limit is supposed to be the "Maximum" permissible speed - so let me explain.

I want to get where I'm going before this sign rusts away to nothing