We made our way to Summer Drift Matsuri at Ebisu last Sunday, getting there at around 6am.
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the first track we went to was Minami, where we saw Rob being all crazy.
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Then Saito Daigo and this other dude started going at it, doing ridiculous tandem runs.
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Until the other dude lost a wheel coming off the jump and wrecked pretty hard!
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At which point we decided to check out some of the other tracks, we went to the Nishi course first, which required going through this tiny tunnel, our van barely fit!
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I went to sleep for a couple hours there and woke up to this odyssey next to me on Blitz 03s haha.
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We then proceeded to go to drift course. Some of LA and Brian's friends were experiencing some technical difficulties in this MX83 (yes, its technically a cressida sold in japan as a mark II).
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I ran into this group of very pretty cars there as well.
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We then went to the higashi course and ran into Alexi and Rob!
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Dude, Alexi you are really tall! and i look really tired.
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Dude, Rob you are really buff!
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Rob and Alexi then gave Brain and I rides, which was really cool, Rob's car feels way too solid! and watching Alexi drift from right behind him was awesome.
Brian getting out of Rob's car.
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Alexi entering the first corner after getting up to ridiculous speeds on the straight.
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Rob swinging it on the straight.
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spotted this trio of 86s at the pits.
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We then made our way to the Kita course, one last shot of Rob's car.
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On our way there so found this place where we had a beautiful view of Higashi, It would be amazing even without a racetrack there!
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At the Kita course, this was the first car that caught my eye.
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We then went over to the pit wall where this white R32 was getting stupid close to the wall, so Brian grabbed some empty bottles to put into the wall,
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So this could happen~
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This dude was NUTS!
we caught up to him afterwards and i got a photo of him and his car!
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digging that audio setup.
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He had an SR in there!
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We had to get on our way home so i took one last photo.
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I slept through most of our six our drive back to Yokohama, but i came across this car when we stopped at a parking area, recognize it?
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Drift Matsuri was an awesome experience and i hope to attend one again soon!