No time for GTL in Jersey for Dai and his team as they are busy to get things back on track after a big disappointment at Palm Beach. During qualifying Dai takes out the left rear of the car but will there be more trouble to come during the weekend? Who could have predicted the rain and thunder that hit Wall Stadium Speedway…Behind the Smoke gives a look into the real life of professional Formula Drift driver, Daijiro Yoshihara. GTChannel’s cameras will follow Dai throughout the 2011 FD season both on and off the track giving current and new drifting fans an exclusive look into what it’s really like to compete in the top drifting series of N.America. Behind the Smoke is produced by GTChannel in association with Discount Tire/America’s Tire and supported by Falken Tire and GoPro. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Oversteer TV Now On a New Dedicated Channel! Dont Miss D1NZ & More! oversteertv.co.nz Highlights from Round 6, the grand final of the New Zealand Rockstar D1NZ National Drifting Championship 2010 Follow championship contenders Curt Whittaker & Gaz Whiter through to the Top4 as they battle for the series crown. Featuring interviews with Mad Mike Whiddett, Fanga Dan Woolhouse and Australian competitors Josh Coote & Driftsquid Jake Jones. Filmed on location at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Auckland, New Zealand. Directed & Edited By Kenny Ruddell Filmed By Braden Olsen Kenny Ruddell Hayden Stirling James Southorn Oversteer TV / SBPnz Find Us On Facebook facebook.com Music Track List: (In Order) La Roux – In For The Kill (Skream Remix) www.youtube.com Major Lazer and La Roux – Bulletproof www.youtube.com Tim Healey Vs. Calvertron – Rock It Roll It (DirtyLoud Remix) www.youtube.com Swarms – Skynet (Original Mix) www.youtube.com
MPs will vote later tonight on a Coalition proposal to cap the rate at which most benefits rise, to one percent for the next three years. The Scottish Government today said that UK welfare reforms will affect 700000 Scottish households. There have been angry clashes in the Commons ahead of the key vote, which the Government is expected to win. In other news; The best friend of missing schoolgirl Moira Anderson has spoken of her sadness at the thought of her lying in an unmarked grave. Police began exhuming a family plot in their search for the youngster’s remains in North Lanarkshire today. The 11 from Coatbridge vanished almost 56 years ago. In local news; The family of a man killed in a crash in Edinburgh on Sunday have described him as a “much loved, son, grandson and brother and a doting father”. 2 year-old Ross Graham from Sighthill View died when his car was in collision with a lorry in Wester Hailes. Also in sport; Alloa say they aren’t surprised that Paul Hartley is being touted as a possible replacement for Terry Butcher – should the Englishman quit as Inverness manager.
www.facebook.com So what if he has trouble ordering French desserts and does weird exercises. Dai is blasting up the bracket in Seattle. With JTP out of the picture now, can he take Seattle and rise to the top in rankings? First up is Vaughn Gittin Jr. Watch it here!Behind the Smoke gives a look into the real life of professional Formula Drift driver, Daijiro Yoshihara. GTChannel’s cameras will follow Dai throughout the 2011 FD season both on and off the track giving current and new drifting fans an exclusive look into what it’s really like to compete in the top drifting series of N.America. Behind the Smoke is produced by GTChannel in association with Discount Tire/America’s Tire and supported by Falken Tire and GoPro
Scion Racing pro drift drivers Ken Gushi and Tanner Foust move on to Formula Drift Pro Championship 2010 Round 3 New Jersey. Go to gtchannel.com for more car videos and content. During the 2009 season, Scion Racing reached the podium at four events, including Tanner Foust’s round 4 win. 2010 will include seven Formula Drift events. Visit the ScionRacing.com schedule for a full list and event details. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Part two of two. Sabine Schmitz attempts to drive a transit van around the Nurburgring in under ten minutes. Subscribe to see all the reviews, races and challenges: bit.ly Top Gear YouTube channel: www.youtube.com TopGear.com website: www.topgear.com Top Gear Facebook Top Gear Twitter: twitter.com Click here for more Top Gear Challenges clips: bit.ly
Coming off a dominating 2010 season in which Team Falken driver Vaughn Gittin, Jr.¸ competing in the Monster Energy/Falken Tire 2011 Ford Mustang, became the Formula Drift Champion, the high performance tire manufacturer will be gunning for a repeat performance of last year. Falken’s ultimate goal is to have one of its five factory drivers again claiming the top rung of the Formula D ladder, and each team member will have the horsepower to do it. All drivers plan on fielding a new or improved vehicle with more power, which the sport has demanded. The cars will be unveiled this weekend on the streets of Long Beach for the opening event of the 2011 Formula Drift season. Gittin, Jr., will be aboard a Ford Mustang 5.4-liter, its motor built by Ford Racing and Huffaker Engineering, while Daijiro (“Dai”) Yoshihara, who placed fourth in the standings last year, returns in his re-engineered Nissan 240SX (Silvia S13). Finishing fifth in 2010, Darren McNamara also returns this year, running a new Saturn Sky built by Autosport Dynamics in Charlotte, NC, losing the convertible for a hardtop which adds an aggressive stance to the car. Tyler McQuarrie also recognized the value of a fully enclosed coupe, choosing a new hardtop Nissan 350Z, which allows for a significant change in weight distribution, making the Z a far more competitive vehicle. Finally, Justin Pawlak, returning for his second year with Falken, will again field a Ford Mustang, with an engine built by Ford Racing/Roush …
The golden era of rallying being revived in this years edition of the Eifel Rallye Festival. Further Information on this event: www.eifel-rallye-festival.de Video Rating: 4 / 5
Go to gtchannel.com for more car videos and content. D1 Drifter Y. Imamura decides to go grip racing! K. Tsuchiya & J. Wakisaka teaches him how.
Keiichi “Drift King” Tsuchiya bids farewell to his professional racing career with a shindig at Tsukuba Go to gtchannel.com for more car videos and content – with some of the top GT drivers of Japan such as Manabu Orido, Juichi Wakisaka and Nob Taniguchi. Go to http for more car videos and content. Watch the AE86 battle, Nismo VS private tuner battle and ARTA NSX time attack by Keiichi.
US drift stars, Ken Gushi and Rhys Millen challenge 2005 D1 Champion Yasuyuki Kazama for a drift battle. Ken even shows up with his 500hp Ford Mustang he competes in Formula D, but hold on kid. To make all conditions equal, all three must drive the same car, a COMPLETELY stock Mazda MX-5 Roadster. You know who’s really good when they can turn a stock vehicle sideways. After the battle, Keiichi and Kazama take Ken’s Mustang for spin. Also featuring model/drifter Verena Mei. Video Rating: 4 / 5
More videos, photos, and news about Subaru Rally Team USA at: www.subaru.com Repeat Rally America National Champions, David Higgins and Craig Drew test their Subaru Rally Team USA STI in preparation for the 2012 Olympus Rally. The gloves and the graphics will come off this weekend at the Olympus Rally, the final round of the 2012 Rally America Championship. Subaru Rally Team USA (SRT USA) driver David Higgins mathematically secured the Drivers’ Championship at the previous round and enters the Olympus Rally with a promise to drive flat-out in his 2012 Subaru STI rally car. The Subaru team’s traditional blue and yellow graphic livery will be replaced with a strikingly simple all-white graphic scheme, a veritable ‘white horse’, to commemorate Higgins’ four Rally America National Championship titles. The Olympus Rally will be held September 22-23 in Olympia, WA, where over 70 teams will return to the gravel logging roads once used in the 1980′s when the Olympus Rally hosted a round of the World Rally Championship. The competition stages are located just outside of Olympia, Washington
Go to gtchannel.com to leave Dai comments and questions for him to answer. In this feature we go in depth to cover Dai Yoshihara’s Discount Tire Team Falken Nissan S13 at Formula Drift 2010 Las Vegas. Interview of Daijiro Yoshihara, chief mechanic Scott Dodgion from SPD Metal Works and chassis engineer Mike Kojima from motoIQ.com. Go to falkentirecorp to subscribe to Falken’s Youtube videos. Video Rating: 4 / 5
After climbing to the top of the podium at Formula D Seattle, Dai visits his former rival Tanner Foust at X Games 17 in Los Angeles to get some tips. He also hangs out in Lake Tahoe at a Discount Tire corporate retreat and gives a speech, speech, speech!Behind the Smoke gives a look into the real life of professional Formula Drift driver, Daijiro Yoshihara. GTChannel’s cameras will follow Dai throughout the 2011 FD season both on and off the track giving current and new drifting fans an exclusive look into what it’s really like to compete in the top drifting series of N.America. Behind the Smoke is produced by GTChannel in association with Discount Tire/America’s Tire and supported by Falken Tire and GoPro. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Go to gtchannel.com for more car videos and content. [English Narration & Subs] Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya shows off his pearl white custom NSX-R, and battle Naoki Hattori’s stock NSX-R on track to prove his set up is better than stock.
CARJAM TV – Subscribe Here Now www.youtube.com Like Us Now On Facebook: www.facebook.com For The World’s Best Car Videos Website: www.carjam.tv Radio www.rte.ie Chevrolet is redefining modern performance with the debut of the all-new 2014 Corvette Stingray. Tadge Juechter, executive chief engineer, walks us around the 7th generation Corvette to show us the perfect balance of technology, design and performance that makes it worthy of the iconic Stingray designation. To learn more about the all-new 2014 Corvette Stingray, visit www.corvettestingray2014.com According to Motor Trend, GM executives have been planning the next-generation (C7) Corvette since 2007. The car was originally planned for the 2011 model year, but was delayed, and currently expected to arrive in fall 2013 as a 2014 model year.[54] Mid-engine and rear-engine layouts had been considered, but the front-engine, rear-wheel drive (RWD) platform will continue to keep costs lower and the engine compact.[55] The Corvette C7 will come equipped with Chevrolet’s upcoming Gen V small block V8 that features a number of technical advancements including an aluminum block and heads and a revised combustion system. The engine will retain the pushrod, overhead valve design configuration. The new 5.5 L V8 made its world debut in the C6.R racecar. Power will likely total 440 hp (328 kW), an improvement over the 436 horsepower available currently in the Corvette C6, but with improved fuel economy due to the new engine’s … Video Rating: 5 / 5
