Do-luck>> A Behind The Scenes Look
On top of the usual coverage you have come to expect from Japan, you will be noticing a few more “behind the scenes” type posts this year as I try to give you a more in-depth look at some of the most...
View ArticleThe Monoturbo
We often forget that one, if not the most important, aspects of motorsports is the development of new technologies. Pretty much every last bit of gadgetry, innovation and evolution that has been...
View ArticleEditorial Awesomeness: Motor Head Issue 005
Paper will always remain paper, no matter what. Over the last decade the web has really reinvented the way we get clued up in anything from the latest news, to the thing we all love the most here,...
View ArticleLost In Paris
This all happened by accident really. What was meant to be a relaxing weekend away, abruptly turned into a fevered hunt for speed. I wouldn't mind, but I specifically chose the French capital to...
View ArticleIt’s All In The Details: JDM RC Drift Car Comp
“Wanna check out a cool RC drift event?” was what Johnny of Weld asked me the other week on the phone. I said sure, as it had been way too long since I spent some time shooting cool little RC drifters...
View ArticleShige Suganuma On The Japanese Custom Scene
While I will allow my fellow Speedhunters to show us the wonders of the world wide Hot Rod and Customs scene during our “USA” theme this week, my approach will purely concentrate on the Japanese take...
View ArticleThe Self-Entitled Generation
It’s with this in mind that I want to talk about a topic that has been irking me for quite a while: the growing portion of our small community who believe that the world exists solely for their own...
View ArticleYou’ll Never Beat The Irish
When I sat down in the paddock suite above the pit lane at Mondello Park to talk to David Egan, organiser of the Irish Drift Championship, he should have been feeling pretty smug with himself. But he...
View ArticleA Little Perspective On Dieselgate…
The internal decision to create a defeat device to help selected diesel engines (and now it’s looking like petrol variants too) to get around the EPA will likely go down as one of the worst decisions...
View ArticleIs This What Drifting Needs In Order To Progress?
If you think about it, the tried and tested formula of competition drifting is pretty much the same world-over. What’s more, it hasn’t really changed much since its inception, despite the sport coming...
View ArticleProject GTI: Road & Track
Carefully worded title aside, it’s been a pleasurable month behind the wheel of Project GTI. When we last spoke, I was reiterating my belief of taking my time to make sure that I was doing things...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like To Hunt Speed
There’s a very simple and incorrect assumption that I see a lot of people make. That is, equating the best job in the world as also being the easiest. These of course are two very different...
View ArticleLiving In Electric Dreams
We love cars. I don’t think that can be disputed, for a lot of us anyways. Yes, we all have our favourite niches and corners of the car culture world, but as a whole, we love cars. It’s something we...
View ArticleEverything’s Different, Everything’s The Same
A couple of years back, I looked at just some of the reasons why we drive. That is, why and how we draw excitement from our cars. While I still think that a lot of our intentions are well intended, we...
View ArticlePublic Service Announcement: We’re Taking Stance Back
When I say that I can appreciate pretty much every facet or subculture of our community, I really do mean it. Because ultimately, even if something isn’t for me personally, I know that it’s bringing...
View Article90’s Legends: BMW E30 M3 Or Audi RS2?
The Lotus Carlton, the Sierra Cosworth and the Skyline GT-R are just some of the cars that we all continue to lust after, decades after their inception. Here were cars that weren’t reserved for the...
View ArticleTwo Weeks In The Life Of A Speedhunter
I’m going to preface this entire article by saying that this isn’t a typical two week working period in my life. Also, this is a pretty big post. When I set out to begin documenting this period of...
View ArticleKW Answers Your Questions
Many of you took the opportunity to ask questions, and they ranged from simple queries to far more complex enquiries, which, as it turned out, required far more complex responses. We forwarded your...
View ArticleAn Afternoon At Regal Autosport
There are many perks to being a hunter of speed, but few rank quite as high as having so many doors opened for you. I’ve regularly found myself in strange places wondering how in the hell I’d ended up...
View ArticleThe Day I Met The King
The legend of Dorikin is something that I’m sure a lot of us were introduced to in a similar manner, via a grainy DVD or video download of questionable legality. These were the days pre-YouTube and...
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