This is a pic from back just before D1 Rnd 1 at Odaiba.  Igusa-san of K-Style was at the circuit picking up the 2 d1 GDB Imprezas to give them a once over before the outing and he took time to crack this pose for us!

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G1GP International Drift Open Competition Series in Ebisu circuit, Japan.

 Press Release

 We at powervehicles.com along with our partners Team Orange and Ebisu circuit, have launched a new 3 round drift series starting April 2010.  The event will take place on each Friday before the tri-annual 36 hour non-stop drift Matsuri’s (Festivals). This will be part of a complete package called “Drift Heaven Weeks“, which starts the week leading up to the Matsuri weekend, Kicking of with Practice Days Mon-Wed allowing you to set your car up and familiarise yourself with the many tracks.  On the Thursday, a Drift Master class will be hosted by Team Orange D1 Drivers Nobushige Kumakubo and Naoto Suenaga.  On Friday we will hold the G1GP foreigner only competition with trackside winners party afterwards with Team Orange and the week will then climax with the famous drift matsuri. Every Drifter, from every country has to experience the 36 hour non stop Matsuri’s once in their life and with cars available to buy at the track at very reasonable costs (from a basic drift car, all the way up to a d1 machine) there really is no excuse not to make the “pilgrimage” to Ebisu!  Some customers are already planning on sending their own machines from overseas to Japan just for these events and also so they can compete on D1 and D1SL events.  The G1GP is a truly international competition open to drivers from all countries and top names from Australia, France, Ireland, UK, NZ, Russia and Holland to name a few are already planning their trips this year.  The competition welcomes drivers of any level, however expect the last 16 battles to be fiercely fought, as each driver will be pushing hard to win the Title, and prove their country to have the best drivers.  The competition will be organised and judged by the famous D1 drift stars Team Orange and Low to Medium spec cars will be used by all drivers this year to keep the competition inline, but with plans of expansion to a Pro-class for the best cars and drivers in the near future this is definitely a series to watch!

Various online and international magazines and Japan’s  video option will be covering the event.  If you want more info for your publication, freelance coverage can be supplied on request.

More information can be found at www.powervehicles.com/driftlife

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Here’s a selection of the best pics from our guest photographer for the day – Pete Leong.  There’s a Video in the post too – Enjoy!

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Ebisu Circuit now has a Webcam.  Its located above the main strait on the Higashi Course.  This  screenshot taken earlier this month shows the sun rising over a light dusting of new snow, not a uncommon site at this time of year.  The snow doesn’t seem to hang about for long though and hasn’t disrupted our drifting much so far!

EBISU WEBCAM

EBISU LIVE WEB CAMERA

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Better late than never…..  Even though it’s now deep in winter we’re still busy as ever getting cars ready for this years events, so it’s taken us a while to get round to featuring my favourite Drift Matsuri to date – the 2009 Aki(Autumn) Drift Matsuri….

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We have produced this English flyer outlining just some of the amazing events here at Ebisu Circuit in 2010.

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Doriten Action on Youtube.

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Snapped this father and son team out on track on Ebisu’s Higashi Course, with matching bikes and leathers.  There’s a packed

calendar of Bike action here at Ebisu all year round, and we even have a regular group of Bikers who are learning to drift with us!

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Local tyre Shop Garage R held one of their regular Soukouki, or track day, here at Ebisu.  What’s unusual about this one though is the fact it’s on Ebisu’s Nishi Short Course, one purpose built for Drift by Track owner Nobishige Kumakubo.  Normally the long version of the track is a “Grip” only course so when a track day is booked for drift, it’s a rare chance that many people jump at!  The course is awesome fun with a totally blind entry as you switch over the crest of the hill. 

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With the November Drift Matsuri coming up here at Ebisu we thought it would be nice to feature this little video made by a group of Ozzies that were over for the summer Matsuri.  Lets hope for some nice clear crisp Japanese Autumnal weather for this one!  I wonder if the next group of Ozzies that are on there way will leave with more or less strait panels – Time will tell….

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