Today for me was all about getting ready for the Formula Drift press conference and the big announcement of our own "mega event": Need for Speed LIVE. It will see us bringing together an international roster of the world's top drifters, race, production, and time attack cars to do battle in the UK next June. The project has already been one year in the making, I'm quite excited that we've now able to reveal a little bit about it!
So if you were to choose what Time Attack cars and Drifters to bring to Need for Speed LIVE which would they be?
BTW the Formula Drift crew was sporting these new uniforms today, as they get ready for the Red Bull event in 1.5 week's time. Exciting times for them!
This is Jim from Formula Drift taking us through the details of the 2009 season. A key new element for next year, will be the inclusion of local amateur drifting competitions at some of their championship rounds. This is a needed layer for FD events IMO, so it's great to see grass roots drifters will have support next year.
The US Drift community all assembled in one spot…. recognize any one?
The man behind the Mopar drift team: Sean from NuFormz Racing.
… and the Crazy Swede… Samuel Hubinette.
I didn't have much of an opportunity to Speedhunt today… just grabbed a few snaps between meetings….
This Pro Street style Rolls is quite the oddity…
Very clean Pro Street Nova…. these cars are all sitting outside in front of the Convention center BTW…. I'll do a full pass tomorrow of them as there are some pretty wild machines on display.
….on the topic of clean… a tasteful Lexus IS…
Got dish?….
Ok time to get some sleep…. More tomorrow..
:R