I’m in the UK and my social feeds are suddenly filled with some big black boat thing trying to skid then some cowboy mf gets out and has a tizzy fit.

Please for the sake of my sanity, save me from a google hole and tell me:

Who is this guy?
What is that monstrosity he’s attempting to drift?
Why is he acting like a 5yo who dropped his ice cream?
Is this normal for US drifting because it’s not how it goes down over here in Europe?

Cheers!

I know tomorrow is the final round, but I’m curious what everyone thinks about Hot Pit this season. Who impressed you the most, and who do you think has a realistic shot at making it to Formula Drift next year?

Drivers list 2026
Aaron Velazquez

Alexander Ferreira

Alexander Quiroz

Austin Kregle

Austin L Phipps

Axle Rosas

Brandon Marina

Brandon Wicknick

Camren Sorensen

Casey Chavez

Cody Breitenstein

Dustyn Farrell

Elliot Bright

Eric Welch

George Kiriakopoulos

Ian Koenig

Jace Tolbert

Jake Gonzalez

Jason Ferron

Jesse Iwuji

Justin Leonard

Kyle Mohan

Logan Hunter

Margaritis Katsanidis

Mike Power

Nathan Mcguire

Nikita Lastochkin

Rome Charpentier

Ryan Fisher

Shawn Illingworth

Taylor Monnig

TJ Hunt

Wesley Stump

I got old and sold all of my gear and got out of drifting, but recently I discovered one of the boys I used to drive with here in Australia has started his own podcast ( LOW ORIGIN PODCAST) and it has me feeling nostalgic AF

Will you notice a huge improvement in ease of drifting by going from:

• slight toe-in front and rear
• and -2 to -3 camber front and rear

to

• slight toe out front, neutral rear toe
• 0 camber rear, -2 camber front

by adding adjustable rear arms?

Right now my alignment is *whatever the shop gave me* when I asked for 0 rear toe and slight toe out in the front, and was told "don't worry they own sports cars they know what they're doing" (this alignment shop was recommended by someone with a drift car too)... No printout either.

Car is a 1500kg/3300lb Lexus IS250 (factory manual) with Cusco 2way and 14/10kg/mm coilovers. I've never had a drift alignment and not many other people drift the same car, so I don't have a clue what alignment changes *feel* like, to know how to improve my own car. I've driven an e46 with a welded diff, all adjustable arms, proper alignment etc and it felt on-rails when sideways whereas my car... doesn't, and sometimes spins with no warning when otherwise stable at the end of a corner (although that could be down to super uneven grip on wet practice days, and I can't hear the RPMs increase due to stock exhaust).

its a drift king!

Not my video from mlee211,

Am I the only one who thinks this is absolutely un-acceptable, borderline crazy, to purposefully contact someone outside of a chase?

I think I can get a little closer

I have a license but it’s more for decoration. I’d like to be in the passenger seat and experience drifting, but I doubt I can just walk up to a driver and ask. How closed off is the community? Is it more like a IYKYK space?

Make my birthday dreams come true please!

Hey everyone, for a bit of context I’ve had a 1994 v6 Mustang that I drifted probably 10 times. Most of it was on a skid pad at a drag strip but this weekend I went to a real track for the first time. The real track was so much fun and I now want to get a good drift car.

It feels bad spending money on my v6 mustang when the engine will never be good and the car has rust holes. I’m thinking I could either get a 4.6l sn95 mustang and transfer all the upgrades I did to my v6 to the new one or I found an extremely clean and low mileage rx8 for dirt cheap. I love the idea of rotaries but thought they couldn’t be drifted because of the lack of torque. However there were a few people shredding with 4.77 gears at the event

From what I understand the Mustang has very cheap body and overall parts and has good potential for 400hp but the weight distribution is terrible and SRA isn’t the best.
The rx8 on the other hand has a great chassis with 50/50 weight distribution but the engine is maxed out at stock power levels with 240hp and very little torque. I’m honestly not concerned about reliability and I feel like the rotary is the better engine to bounce of the limiter safely.

I’d love to build an rx-8 but would the sn95 be the smarter move, what’s your opinion on both chassis ?

Full album is here: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1114147394880263&set=pcb.1114150708213265

Best viewed on Youtube: https://youtu.be/DBS6SIFasJk

Shooting drift with a rig not designed for fast action with manual focus. It was fun but hell :D

if i wanted to put these Mitsubishi evo seats in my drifting chaser, what brackets would i need ? Ive never swapped seats before.

Thanks

So I have been looking into my local drifting community and have become very interested in becoming more then an observer.

1: Mainly looking for opinions on what would be a good starting platform vehicle wise. Repairing and turning the car into a drift capable car is expected and definitely within my ability’s.

2: pointers for someone new to the sport and community

I’ve slung my cars around in an empty parking lot for fun but never really went further than that before. And before I just go spending money or anything I felt I should seek some advice from the community

My car is the green one, 2v solid axle FDF angle, the other is coyote IRS and FDF angle.

For mounting this fiberglass lip, does it make more sense to have 4 or 8 mounting points? Not sure if the 4 in blue make more sense so it has some give & is less to repair when I go off track & it breaks off, or 8 to give it more rigidity to begin with. Going to use the same bolts/rivnuts as the over fenders

best thing I’ve seen in a longggggggggggg time