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  • History of Drifting at Goodwood Festival of Speed

    Drifting is a common sight in most countries these days. Even Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara invites them to pollute his backyard with Asian tire smoke during a classy event called Goodwood Festival of Speed. Drift cars are mixing with F1, legendary Group C Le Mans prototypes and DTM cars just fine. Only difference between three-time Formula D champion Chris Forsberg and Sir Jackie Stewart is that the first one is more accessible and friendly in the paddock area. This year drifting was back to Goodwood hillclimb course for the fourth time, but how did it get “the…

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  • Interview with Fredric

    Fredric Aasbo is the 2015 Formula Drift champion and most known ambassador of Gatebil. I had the opportunity to talk with him during the Gatebil festival at Rudskogen. We discussed his plans for the rest of the season, what he thinks about the FIA drift event in Japan, going to Mars and his prediction for Formula D champion 2017. – Where are you from? – Ski, Norway – You’re having a hard, but at the same time successful season, what keeps you awake? – I feel that I’ve gone through all stages of a drifting driver: total nobody who had…

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  • #DriftCarsStanding2 – Formula Drift edition

    Something always happens at Formula Drift, but even there, you have few minutes to snap a car while it’s resting. Chris Forsberg’s Nissan 370Z Ryan Tuerck’s Toyota GT86 Fredric Aasbo’s Scion tC Dai Yoshihara’s Subaru BRZ Matt Field’s Nissan S14 Geoff Stoneback’s Nissan 370z

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