Team Japspeed Pembrey Video
Here is our team video from Round 2 of the 2013 Maxxis British Drift Championship – while we may not have achieved the results we wanted we still managed to have fun and see the funny side! Who knew that Shane was such a natural TV presenter!?
Japspeed get the Corbeau Treatment!

There’s no other way of putting it really – a good pair of bucket seats are an essential requirement any drift car. With the first round of the 2013 Maxxis British Drift Championship just a few weeks away at the time we decided the interiors in our three S15s and Scooby needed a long overdue […]
Brett Castle joins Team Japspeed!

It’s official – Brett Castle has joined Team Japspeed! UK drifting legend and all-round nice guy Brett will be taking over the vacant drivers seat in the infamous Japspeed Impreza and will be piloting it in this year’s British Drift Championship. So, how does it feel to be making a return to a scene that […]
Lydden Hill Test Day Video
Our pre-season test day at Lydden Hill was a great laugh…and we also got some productive testing done as well! Check out our video from the day below:
Perfect Preparation Prevents Poor Performance

With the first round of the 2013 British Drift Championship fast approaching we’ve been working flat out to get the cars ready in time. It’s not easy building and maintaining a drift car (let alone five of them), so in order to iron out any niggles and inevitable issues we decided to head down to […]
Shotgun Time for the Lexus!

Here at Japspeed we always try to retain a certain subtlety with our cars, despite their wild exteriors and outlandish engine conversions. However, the child within us often gets the better of us and we decide to start bolting one of our Shotgun exhausts to something. In this case, it was our 2JZ powered Lexus IS200 and, […]
Team Japspeed Win the World Drifter Awards!
The Team Japspeed cars are respected around the world for their high performance and ground-breaking modifications, and the Japspeed drivers are admired throughout the drifting community for their incredible skills and team drifting abilities. Our efforts in the motorsport scene rarely go unnoticed, and as a result of our hard work we are please to […]
Behind The Scenes with Team Japspeed: December

We’ve had a busy month here at Japspeed HQ, and while Paul Smith, Baggsy and the two Shanes may have had the time of their lives ripping up tracks around the UK its the few of us back here in the office and workshop that keep everything ticking over behind the scenes! Here’s what we’ve […]
Team Japspeed to Drift at Autosport International 2013!

Autosport International is always the first show of the year and is the perfect way to blow off the cobwebs and one-too-many mince pies we may have had over the Christmas period! Here at Team Japspeed we can’t wait to get to the Birmingham NEC to fire up our drift cars and take the Live […]
Team Japspeed To Race In The Civic Cup

This weekend will see Team Japspeed and driver Paul Smith compete in the Civic Cup for the first time! The whole team are relishing the chance to extend our motorsport wings from the drifting that we have become internationally known for, to also include racing in our busy event calendar. The event which we will […]