One of the last trackdays of the 2010 season has ended. „Drive & Fun“ have organized a Grip+Drift trackday at Anneau du Rhin just this past weekend. Even though this year’s official drifting leagues have ended already, some well-known faces took their drift weapons out for some mayhem.
Many thanks to Marco Bolognese from Trackdays.ch and to Valentin Landrieu for these pictures.
Michael Scherr, IDS Pro drifter and driver of the mean green twinturbo 300zx driftcar was one of the participants.
Michael Scherr’s green beast is packing 550 horses in the stable
Harry Müller, driver of an all-new stealth bomber S15 he built just this year was doing some testing runs as well!
It’s sporting a brand-new custom widebody kit that is unique for this particular car
Unfortunately, he retired from the event sometime in the afternoon because his engine exploded. Fortunately however, this absolutely mad nutjob actually liked the fact that his engine blew because it will allow him to put in „something bigger“ as he was saying.
I’m going to assume by „something bigger“ he means an engine so powerful it could run an aircraft carrier.
Batman’s driftcar? Or maybe Harry Müller is batman!
Our media-team member Thomas from donthomaso.ch is usually known for his splendid photography for Speed Industries.
But this time he took out his own 450hp drift-spec S14 to smoke up some tires himself!
At first his car produced more smoke from the engine compartment than from the tires because the radiator fan was not working. It looked like a steamtrain was rolling trough the pitlane… hilarious!
After our flying mechanic Roman Kanabé used a yellow ziptie to fix the electronics he got the fan to work and Thomas was off for some sweet drifting action.
Who said photographers can’t drift?
He finished the day without further incidents, apart from the usual wear and tear you get from drifting. For example, when your front bumper mysteriously disappears. It can happen!
Near the end he even let me drive for a few laps! Unfortunately I used the accelerator a lot and used up all his remaining fuel. Nooo.
Chris Redliner, who joined the Speed Industries team just recently was getting some seat time as well.
Redliner preparing for a run in his sleeper
His street-legal S13 is the absolute and undisputed sleeper car. It looks stock from the outside, but oh what a monster it is.
Nobody would expect this stock looking thing to have more power than a small nuclear plant
Chris Redliner seems to have suffered some sort of head injury in his childhood, because he decided it would be a good idea to put a 500hp RB25 engine into a car that weighs little more than a ton.
Chris Redliner was probably on the phone with his therapist
I was allowed in the passenger seat and can report that the result of this engine swap is as dramatic as putting a swarm of angry bees in your underpants. This car pulls like nothing I’ve seen before, and I’ve sat in some pretty serious machines.
Unfortunately some component on the rear axle snapped after a few hours, so he had to retire in the afternoon.
This happens to tires if they’re strapped to a RB25 S13 for like five seconds
Still, alot of fun was had by all, some of our buddies and supporters came by for a visit through the day. Also, lots of seat time was possible because there were only 10 cars registered for this event. Good times! Many thanks to the guys from Drive & Fun for the organization; all straightforward and uncomplicated just how we like it.
The ZÜRIDRIFT S14 unfortunately could not participate because it is still damaged from the IDS Finals a few weeks ago. It should be back in full swing on December 4th for the last event of this year!
There’s not many pictures to go around this time, mainly because one of our photographers was busy destroying tires instead of doing actual work. I’ll just throw in the rest of them, which show mainly us bullshitting around. Sorry about that, we’ll have more proper drifting pics next time!
One of the last trackdays of the 2010 season has ended. „Drive & Fun“ have organized a Grip+Drift trackday at Anneau du Rhin just this past weekend. Even though this year’s official drifting leagues have ended already, some well-known faces took their drift weapons out for some mayhem.
Many thanks to Marco Bolognese from Trackdays.ch and to Valentin Landrieu for these pictures.
Michael Scherr, IDS Pro drifter and driver of the mean green twinturbo 300zx driftcar was one of the participants.
Michael Scherr’s green beast is packing 550 horses in the stable
Harry Müller, driver of an all-new stealth bomber S15 he built just this year was doing some testing runs as well!
It’s sporting a brand-new custom widebody kit that is unique for this particular car
Unfortunately, he retired from the event sometime in the afternoon because his engine exploded. Fortunately however, this absolutely mad nutjob actually liked the fact that his engine blew because it will allow him to put in „something bigger“ as he was saying.
I’m going to assume by „something bigger“ he means an engine so powerful it could run an aircraft carrier.
Batman’s driftcar? Or maybe Harry Müller is batman!
Our media-team member Thomas from donthomaso.ch is usually known for his splendid photography for Speed Industries.
But this time he took out his own 450hp drift-spec S14 to smoke up some tires himself!
At first his car produced more smoke from the engine compartment than from the tires because the radiator fan was not working. It looked like a steamtrain was rolling trough the pitlane… hilarious!
After our flying mechanic Roman Kanabé used a yellow ziptie to fix the electronics he got the fan to work and Thomas was off for some sweet drifting action.
Who said photographers can’t drift?
He finished the day without further incidents, apart from the usual wear and tear you get from drifting. For example, when your front bumper mysteriously disappears. It can happen!
Near the end he even let me drive for a few laps! Unfortunately I used the accelerator a lot and used up all his remaining fuel. Nooo.
Chris Redliner, who joined the Speed Industries team just recently was getting some seat time as well.
Redliner preparing for a run in his sleeper
His street-legal S13 is the absolute and undisputed sleeper car. It looks stock from the outside, but oh what a monster it is.
Nobody would expect this stock looking thing to have more power than a small nuclear plant
Chris Redliner seems to have suffered some sort of head injury in his childhood, because he decided it would be a good idea to put a 500hp RB25 engine into a car that weighs little more than a ton.
Chris Redliner was probably on the phone with his therapist
I was allowed in the passenger seat and can report that the result of this engine swap is as dramatic as putting a swarm of angry bees in your underpants. This car pulls like nothing I’ve seen before, and I’ve sat in some pretty serious machines.
Unfortunately some component on the rear axle snapped after a few hours, so he had to retire in the afternoon.
This happens to tires if they’re strapped to a RB25 S13 for like five seconds
Still, alot of fun was had by all, some of our buddies and supporters came by for a visit through the day. Also, lots of seat time was possible because there were only 10 cars registered for this event. Good times! Many thanks to the guys from Drive & Fun for the organization; all straightforward and uncomplicated just how we like it.
The ZÜRIDRIFT S14 unfortunately could not participate because it is still damaged from the IDS Finals a few weeks ago. It should be back in full swing on December 4th for the last event of this year!
There’s not many pictures to go around this time, mainly because one of our photographers was busy destroying tires instead of doing actual work. I’ll just throw in the rest of them, which show mainly us bullshitting around. Sorry about that, we’ll have more proper drifting pics next time!