This weekend Team Japspeed driver Paul Smith will be making the trip over to France for Round 2 of the King of Europe drift championship. However, Paul won’t be sitting behind the wheel of his Japspeed S15 at the event…he will in fact be sat at the judges table scoring the competitors qualifying runs and [...]

There’s no other way of putting it really – a good pair of bucket seats are an essential requirement any drift car. With the first round of the 2013 Maxxis British Drift Championship just a few weeks away at the time we decided the interiors in our three S15s and Scooby needed a long overdue [...]

Our video from round 1 of the 2013 Maxxis British Drift Championship dropped over the weekend – make sure you check it out below! [...]

Team Japspeed driver Shane O’Sullivan claimed 3rd place at the first round of the 2013 Irish Drift Championship at Mondello Park over the weekend after pushing himself and the car to the limit amongst the highly competitive competition. With the first round of the British Drift Championship having taken place just a week before there [...]

Following on from our previous two blog entries, we can happily report that Team Japspeed driver Paul Smith claimed victory after a series of tense battles at Round 1 of the Maxxis British Drift Championship! After months of preparation and anticipation the team descended on the Lydden Hill circuit early on Friday morning in order [...]

It wouldn’t be a round of the British Drift Championship without some drama! First of all, you may have noticed that Shane O’Sullivan’s S15 was absent from yesterday’s pictures, but we’ll get to that later… Saturdays of BDC rounds are set aside for practice and qualifying, and in the practice rounds Shane Lynch was laying [...]

Months of anticipation are finally over! Today we arrived at Lydden Hill for the first round of the 2013 Maxxis British Drift Championship in order to get the cars scrutineered and the guys signed on. The logistics behind four drift cars are never easy, and since Thursday morning mechanic Andy has been all over the [...]

It’s official – Brett Castle has joined Team Japspeed! UK drifting legend and all-round nice guy Brett will be taking over the vacant drivers seat in the infamous Japspeed Impreza and will be piloting it in this year’s British Drift Championship. So, how does it feel to be making a return to a scene that [...]

Our pre-season test day at Lydden Hill was a great laugh…and we also got some productive testing done as well! Check out our video from the day below: [...]

With the first round of the 2013 British Drift Championship fast approaching we’ve been working flat out to get the cars ready in time. It’s not easy building and maintaining a drift car (let alone five of them), so in order to iron out any niggles and inevitable issues we decided to head down to [...]