I miss drifting! I shot the GGP event about 4 years back (geez we’ve been lazy) and none of us have attended anything else since. In the meanwhile I’ve been torturing myself with FOMO through a surprising amount of drifting podcasts (shout out Goodest Cast, Pile Up Podcast and After-Hours with Faction!). I had to get back out there in some capacity, and that’s when I found River City Drift. Not being from San Antonio, that name was new to me. But Club Loose Texas? I remember the Club Loose Texas. (That was supposed to be an Alamo joke, but it probably didn’t work and I’m sorry.)
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After 86 Day Meet (Hosted by Mayday Garage)
Almost 13 years to this day I had bought my first new car when I picked up a Raven Black 2013 Scion FR-S from a dealership in Galveston, TX. I had just gotten back to Texas after a 3 year stay on Guam, and I had been playing with the FT86 Prototype on Gran Turismo 5 for a better part of the last year of it. There was not a doubt in my mind that this sleek RWD sport compact had to be a part of my life as soon as I touched down. I never would have imagined how big that part of my life the 86 was going to take up.
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Lone Star Drift 2021: One Last GGP Post
It’s been almost 4 years to the day that I had last been to Gulf Greyhound Park. GGP had become such a given presence on this page that I didn’t even bother uploading that 2017 Photo Set here directly. If you go back through the 8ish years of my motorsports coverage for Strange Rhythms you’ll find that the majority of drift events are at GGP Sportsland by large. We even have to give our beloved 3rd gear parking lot a cute nickname to deflect some of its mundanity. However, ladies and gentleman, we’ve reached the end of an era. In regards to drifting, motorcycle safety courses or just being a big ass parking lot used for everything but that, Gulf Greyhound Park will be making no more appearances here as they finally shut their doors.
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TX86Day hosted by NonStopTuning
Had mega fun photographing this event celebrating Toyota AE86, Scion FRS and Subaru BRZ. I have never photographed drift cars in action so this was hella fun to do at the expense of a very, very hot day and a mild sunburn. Enjoy the photos!!!
Lone Star Drift 2016 Round 1: The Birth of the Battle Royale (With Cheese)
Okay, so I did a bad job of treating the off season like an… off season. After just a little bit of scrolling the front page it’s fairly clear that I still drove and shot a few drift events during Texas’s really confusing winter months.
Honestly, off season should be called the Lone Star Drift reload period. It’s during this time that Aaron and his guys take some time off to travel and explore some new curve-balls to throw at the series. The big news this year is an unconventional competition format going into the well-aged Formula D Pro-AM as well as the Sophomore year TXSL series. At first mention it was met with a lot of confusion and a little bit of apprehension, but in practice it’s proven itself to be just the kind of shake up that the season needed.
TXDF: Same-Same But Different
Yet Still the Same.
Oh buddy, you better believe that the Houston Drift Scene has been waiting for this for a long time. Kudos to StatusWorks for delivering two things that we’ve all been asking for: 1)Drifting events in the winter months of Lone Star Drift’s Off Season and 2) A totally rad, new place to do it.
Starting near the end of last year, Status Works has been hooking us all up with access to the Houston Police Academy’s test track, giving many of us our first tastes of a non skid pad event.