Germany Road Trip!

We have already posted our Nurburgring part of our Germany trip here but I wanted to show you the rest of the Germany Road Trip as well so everyone could check out some car related stuff that you just dont see everyday, like this badass DTM Audi below! Click read more to check out what we happened to run into on our journey!.

Two of a Kind... Black Skyline.

So in the S2 @ AMS post I introduced you to the R33 you see before you. However it wasn't the only Skyline to grace our presence, an R32 came along as well! We decided before these guys split we needed to get a few pics and here they are in all their skyline glory.

S2 @ AMS!!

So after being dealt a blow by the city of Atlanta Howard Smith finally brought the S2 drift events back, and I for one thank him! I know everyone one out there misses the blue lot but this event brought S2 back with a bang! Two tracks to chose from, indoor pit area, and laps around the banked AMS walls made this one of the more memorable drift events I've ever drifted in. Click read more for all the pictures and insight into the new S2 track!

FY Friday: Black Smoke Racing

Ive been following Blacksmokeracing for a while now, apparently some pretty crazy prople got together to  drift a huge Merc wagon diesel. They took it out for some hoonage at Gatbil this year and seems that this year its a supercharged, turbocharged, nitrus injected, diesel.. Totally 100% fuck yes.

Check the fantastic coverage of Gatbil from Speedhunters here!

Also on another note we know its been slow lately, dont worry we have a TON of stuff in the very near future including the S2 drift event at AMS (were back) and Import Alliance in NC. Also the Stupercharged S2000 is coming along and after that is racefriv S13vertLS1 project along with a new offroad type of project so stay tuned!!!!!

GYM 5!

No need for an intro, we all know whats coming. Also anybody out there play Project Gotham Racing? Some scenes in this brought me right back, 1 million Kudos to Ken!

FY Friday. Birth to Monaco

Im strait up stealing this off S3 Magazine's facebook page,  who probably stole is from speedhunters and none of that matters because this video is truly sick. Watch and enjoy, and if you aspire to be a F1 driver, take notes. Also I know there is a boob on the screen shot, whatever, just watch it.

Driving the Nurburgring!!!

So recently a few members of the racefriv community took a trip to see our racefriv friend Parker in Germany, I got a ton of pics and will make a post about the rest of the trip soon. First though Im going to concentrate on the highlight of the trip, the epic, the awesome, the Green Hell...... The Nurburgring. We weren't going all the way to Germany without driving the Nurburgring, so we rented some wicked slow cars and hit the track!!! Click read more to see all our pics from the green hell!!

FD Slides into The Sunshine State

Round 3 “The Invasion” at Palm Beach International Raceway was full of surprises from beginning to end. Between the changes to the course layout, the rain during qualifying, and the heated race between two top drivers, this competition was destined to be one of the most controversial and important events of the season.

FD Road Atlanta Video Round Up

So racefriv is heading down to FD Palm Beach today but before we ride Jet Ski's all the way down the coast  Ill leave you with all the videos for FD Road Atlanta!






Click read more for all the Road Atlanta Drifting videos you could watch on your 8 hour shift!

FY Friday: Tony Angelo Waving to the Crowd.

This past FD when Angelo came down the hill his hatch flung right open, lol's ensued and I knew before he even came to the top I was going to make a gif out of what happened in the horse shoe. Here is that awesome Gif!!! Fuck Yes indeed.

Formula Drift @ Road Atlanta!!!

The first ever Formula Drift event was at Road Atlanta way back in 2004 and since then Ive never missed a single one, I was there on the first event, I was there when Taka Aono and Sam Hubinette went one more time about 10 times in a row in an AE86 and a Dodge Viper, Ive seen it all; but this years Formula Drift at Road Atlanta was truly one of a kind, not for the crashes and major upsets but for the fact that this year I was going as media. Thanks to the guys at Fitted.Life we were able to get a few media passes and after all these years I could finally walk inside the fence, hang out at the grid, and generally look way more important than I really am. This is our story of Formula Drift Round 2 "Road to the Championship"

How to Photograph Drifting

Phil here.  I've noticed a trend of spectators coming to drift events with nice DSLRs hoping to take pictures.  I've also seen several less than optimum submissions on various social networking sites so I thought that maybe a tutorial would be useful.  Let me add that I am far from the worlds best drift photographer - lets just get on with it shall we?

Internet Love: The Keep Drifting Fun Movie

Racefriv was there to see this on the big screen at Midtown. It was awesome to see a drift video in a movie theater but what was really awesome was sitting next to the guys who filmed it and the legendary driviers in it like Chris Forsberg. If you missed out on the sneak peak showing here is your chance to watch all 30 minutes of this glorious drift video. Enjoy!!! (also don't forget to cheer when they get to Atlanta!)

T-Shirts in the Store now! ---------------->

The team racefriv shirt got such a huge response at Formula Drift that we are putting them up for sale!! This is the ONLY place you can get these shirts they are the originals!  Donnie Dunlap over at skylineprints.com hooked me up on these so don't forget to hit him up for all your screen printing needs. So for every one that wanted a shirt and couldn't get one at FD here's your chance!!!! Thanks for the support everyone and stay tuned for some amazing Formula Drift coverage!

Save Drifting In Atlanta!!!

So I don't normal do this kind of stuff here on racefriv, but this effects all of the racefriv community so I thought it needed to be posted. A local group condo owners have somehow convinced the Atlanta city council to ban drifting in Atlanta Georgia without even hearing from the many people who support this great sport. They are singling out drifting and trying to cancel any event that would be in the Atlanta region. Of course this will lead to drifters taking to the streets which is exactly what the drifting community doesn't want. So drifting is being cancelled in Atlanta and our fellow drifters are in need, what can I do? Well I'm glad you asked. First go join the facebook group here.Click on docs and email the mayor.  Then go sign the petition over at change.org here. Mayor Reed can still veto the amendment, so thats the plan for now. Thanks to everyone for the help. This is a battle that we must not lose.

UPDATE: Just wanted to thank everyone who has signed the petition, we are fighting the good fight, there is close to 5000 signatures on the petition at the time and over 7000 people in the group. For a movement that started 2 days ago that's damn impressive!!! The numbers on this site have even jumped a little from people googleing it, which has brought us over 30,000 views since we started racefriv a little over a year ago. FD is this weekend, FittedLife.com has us shooting under them now which gives us the amazing opportunity to shoot the event on track this time. THANKS FittedLife! Its been a crazy week, KDF movie tommorrow night, FD Thursday and Friday, AMS drifting on Sunday for us and since this whole Turner Field thing came out where going to cut our drift day in half to go show support!!!Thats 4 strait days of drifting and I cant wait!.

UPDATE: Now with video!!!!




UPDATE: Sadly the council passed the  amendment today and basically killed organized drifting inside the perimeter. Drifting will never die in Atlanta though, it will continue on, we will find new places to drift and give our money to another venue. Its so sad that a small group of people can ruin a good time for 1000's of people. We will carry on, drifting isn't dead, actually its probably stronger now. Turner was awesome, but the next place will be even better.

S2 Drift Event & Import Alliance Video!!!!!

So I hope you have you aviators on for this mash up of the S2 Drift event and Import Alliance meet at Turner Field over the past weekend. If you have the need, the need for speed, then this video is for you! If you like great balls of fire then negative ghost rider the pattern is full. Ok, I think I'm done now. Just watch the video, its the perfect thing if you've lost that loving feeling......



Turner field S2 Drifting and Import Alliance spring meet 2012 from racefriv on Vimeo.

If your on a mobile you can watch the youtube version here!!!

S2 Drift @ Tuner Field Round 2!

Racefriv headed out to the second S2 Drift Turner Field this year and as always had a blast. Turner is always fun and its my favorite local track to drift these days. The best part about the S2 events is that they go out of their way to make different track layouts every time, which keeps it fresh and fun. Click read more for a TON of pics from the event and stay tuned to the racefriv channel because were releasing a video of the event in the near future!

FY Friday: Retterer is Betterer

Our good friend Christian Retterer managed to get his Z06 in this months SportsCar! A true fuck yes indeed. Congrats Christian! There is a new class in Auto-X with new rules on what you can change, Christian just happens to be awesome so they picked him for the article shot! Also Jake is watching you.....

Check out more pics here!

You can check the magazine here. Although you may need a membership to view it. Its associated with the SCCA which you can check out here. 

ImportAlliance Panoramic

So Phil created a HUGE panoramic of the Import Alliance meet and its too cool to not post it on here. Check it out and scroll around maybe you can find yourself! See if you can find some of the easter eggs we put in there. Just zoom in with your mouse wheel and move the cursor around kind of like its google maps. Have fun!

FY Friday: FD Long Beach Video Round Up

Heres all the videos Ive run into for the first event of the season. This year is going to be amazing!! Especially for racefriv but more on that later. For now watch a few of these videos and remind yourself that drifting really is the best sport on the planet. 2012 is really shaping up to be a great year! Click read more for like 5 more videos!!!!!!!

From 1KIND


The hug between Justin and Dai really bring it home that this sport really is all about fun. Even at the top level.