New Zealand’s newest race track, Hampton Downs, located just south of Auckland played host to a grassroots drift day last weekend. This new facility has been used a lot for drifting recently, as it has a large concrete skid pad and also a full race track...
The few Vancouver Island guys that have made it out to our mainland drift days always tell us to come out and check out their events on the Island. Vancouver Island has always been a place I love to visit and I hadn't been there for a few years, so I decided to take this free weekend to skip across the Straight of Georgia to Victoria to check out the Island scene.
I've seen my share of wall taps, car crashes and wall plants, but I never thought id "get to experience one". One of our Pro Am drivers, Wyatt, was out practicing on the track during Evergreen Speedway's open drift, and towards the end of the event I got a chance to ride along with him...