Shane Lynch talks drifting on Saturday Night Live!
One of the ‘slight’ benefits to having Boyzone member Shane Lynch in your drift team is that he does do the occasional interview, and being the huge drift fanatic his is Shane’s always keen to talk about Japspeed and the BDC. Having conquered Loose Women earlier in the year, Shane appeared on Ireland’s Saturday Night […]
Brooksie Film: ‘Champions Will Be Crowned’
Everyone loves Brooksie. His films are second to none, properly capturing the spirit and atmosphere at every BDC event. Check out his end of season finale, ‘Champions Will Be Crowned’ which took place up at the Nissan Manufacturing Plant in Co. Durham. Absolutely stunning work, gives us goosebumps everytime we watch it!
Team Japspeed win 2011 Maxxis BDC Constructors Championship!
After a year which has taken Team Japspeed across the whole of the UK it’s safe to say Round 6 of the Maxxis British Drift Championship has proved to be the ultimate end to the season. Not only did driver Steve Biagioni take second place on the podium in the 1JZ Impreza, but the constructors […]
Team Japspeed take Second place @ BDC Grand Finale
In a season which has taken Japspeed across the whole of the UK it’s safe to say BDC Round 6 proved to be the ultimate end to a dramatic 2011 season. Just nine months ago Team Japspeed’s Subaru Impreza underwent a full 1JZ conversion which massively altered its handling and performance. It’s taken months of […]
Team Japspeed set for BDC Round 6 Finale!
It’s safe to say 2011 has been a pretty crazy year for Team Japspeed! We’ve re-vamped Shane’s S15, built an S14a competition car, seen Paul Smith’s S15 get on the podium and of course that Impreza theft which we got back thanks to the help of our 20,000+ Facebook fans. Aside from the drama, it’s […]
Japspeed Impreza hits Fast Car Cover!
It’s been a good few months since Team Japspeed have been featured in a mainstream title, but Fast Car have more than made up for it with an awesome cover of the Japspeed 1JZ Subaru Impreza! No we haven’t forgot to ‘rotate’ the image – this month it’s an epic drifting/sideways special, hence the sideways […]
Random Snap: Team Japspeed 1:18 model?
We absolutely LOVE some of the effort Team Japspeed fans go to – whether it’s on Forza, stickering their cars/computer or in this case building a custom 1:18 scale model car! We found this awesome model over on Driftworks.co.uk built by ‘lownslow’ who’s also built a whole range of other cool models including VWs and […]
REPORT: Japspeed @ Prodrift Round 5, Mondello
Hands down one of the most epic events Team Japspeed has ever attended! The Prodrift series is already regarded as one of the best in the world, so when the likes of Frederic Aasbo, Darren McNamara, Dai Yoshihara and James Deane were invited for the Round 5 final it quite simply couldn’t be missed.
UPDATE: VF-Racing at Cadwell Park
It’s a neverending season of racing for the VF-Racing guys, but it’s definitely working with the Japspeed-sponsored Impreza sitting 4th overall and regularly coming 1st in class race after race. On September 3rd the guys headed over to Cadwell Park – find out below just how they got on! For round 11 of the BARC’s […]
Can you build a BDC-ready Drift car in 48 hours? Day 2
Last week we introduced you to our 2011/2012 project, a Nissan 200SX S14a. The plan with this car was to take it from standard to BDC-ready in just two days, and where we left Part 1 it was beginning to take shape after a solid day’s work. For Part 2 it was time to make […]
