Archive for June, 2008

Round 4 Summary is up!

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Round 4 Summary is up! Check out what happened at the final round for the 2008 Drift Showdown Championship Points Series. Round 4 was held at HPI Racing USA, and we had special guest and 35-time champion Joel “Magic” Johnson competing in the pro/invite class! Who won? Who made the top 5 overall? Who just [...]

Special Guest Driver Joel “Magic” Johnson @ R4!

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Tomorrow @ Round 4, special guest driver Joel “Magic” Johnson will drive in exhibition class. For those of you who don’t know, Joel is a 33-time ROAR National Champion and 2-time IFMAR World Champion, in both off-road and on-road. He is currently head of Kyosho USA and part of AKA with fellow champions Mark Pavidis [...]

Tamiya’s R35 is here!

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

After starting life as a concept car in 2001 and moving to the prototype stage in 2005, the world was treated to the debut of the Nissan GT-R at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. Powered by a 3,799cc twin turbo DOHC V6 engine producing 480hp, this new GT-R has become the fastest production car to [...]

FREE Drift Session this Sunday!

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Speedtech RC is holding a FREE open drift session this Sunday at their location in San Gabriel, CA. Come test and tune your ride, engage in friendly tandems, or just hang out with fellow RC drifters. Members of Team Drift Nutz and RC DriftClub will be on hand to help you out with any setup [...]