Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Wild Speed 3: Tokyo Drift Girls


The Fast and the Furious is known as "Wild Speed" in Japan. Tokyo Drift is actually one of Potemkin's favorite movies because it is just so cheesily and wonderfully awful.

Monday, March 5, 2007

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Will Drifting Ever Be The Same


For good or for bad, drifting may never be the same. The official release of the film The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift in theaters today will expose drifting to the masses. Just as the original The Fast and The Furious movie made the Japanese car culture widely popular among teenagers and young adults, the Tokyo Drift film will do the same for Drifting, but on a much larger scale.

Drifting is a racing technique that involves skidding through a corner sideways. It originated in the mountains of Japan more than 15 years ago and evolved into a competitive motor sport in that country before finding its way to the United States. Today, two organizations, D1 Grand Prix and Formula Drift, promote drift competitions for both amateur and professional drift drivers in the United States.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Tokyo Drift YO

Ok so it's not Tokyo - it's France.
Same location, corner even where we did the drifting XFR.
I prefer the drifting XFR shot, I think because it was shot early morning with softer natural light.
This shot, black car + midday sun = epic fail

Friday, March 2, 2007

“Tokyo Drift” Practice and Qualifying, Saturday

Thursday, March 1, 2007

GIRLS OF D1 TOKYO DRIFT


I know you guys enjoy seeing the ladies almost as much as you like the seeing the cars, so I have put together a small gallery of some of the race queens and flag girls from the D1GP Tokyo Drift event in Odaiba. While D1 is not known for its race queens like Super GT or Tokyo Auto Salon, there were still quite a few of them to be found in Odaiba.

I'm not going to spend the time to write captions for these as you probably won't even notice them. Hope you enjoy!