Back in January 2011 Team Japspeed were given the opportunity to perform at Europe’s biggest motorsport expo, Autosport International. Attracting over 75,000 visitors and 400 exhibitors this was a seriously exciting display for Japspeed, who faultlessly drifted to an all-new crowd with some of the wildest stunts the UK has ever seen.

With the 2012 Autosport show just weeks away, Japspeed are hugely excited to announce their return to the Live Action Arena taking place over January 12th-15th at Birmingham’s NEC. Fresh from their recent Top Gear Live performance, the whole team have mastered the slippery indoor surface thanks to the Maxxis MA-Z1 Drift tyres allowing them to twin drift just inches apart at speeds of over 60mph.

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What’s better than a single cover feature? Two of ‘em in the same month, that’s what! A few months back Japanese Performance Magazine arrived at Japspeed HQ to shoot their V8 twin-turbo S15 (as driven by Shane Lynch) specifically for the cover feature, and we’ve got to say snapper Phil Steinhardt has done an amazing job! No photoshopped smoke effects of wheel blur here – we genuinely did a burnout in the middle of the workshop which you can see on YouTube here.

And at the same time, Total Impreza also photographed the Japspeed 1JZ-powered Impreza also for their Jan 2012 issue. It’s yet another cracking in-depth feature from the TCM guys and girls, make sure you grab your copy from all good newsagents before it’s too late!

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It’s safe to say Japspeed’s 1JZ-powered Impreza had a fairly eventful 2011. After the initial engine swap at the end of 2010 and that theft during summer, Japspeed’s Scooby proved to be a serious contender within the BDC with Steve Biagioni reaching 4^th against teammate Shane Lynch at Round 4. As well as the BDC, the Japspeed Impreza has performed at almost every demo and drift display this year including the recent Top Gear Live Show, so with a few weeks before the 2012 season kicks off there was just enough time to give it a decent refresh!

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In case you haven’t guessed, we’re still massively buzzing from the two Top Gear Live shows we performed at in November! Japspeed were absolutely honoured to be invited along, but we couldn’t have made it possible without the help of all our team and sponsors especially Monster Energy Drinks.

Having sponsored Team Japspeed for the past two years already, Monster Energy have stepped up to fully support (and run) their own S15 drift car for 2012, and Top Gear Live was it’s first debut with Irishman Shane O’Sullivan behind the wheel. As you can see from the pics and vids below, as well as looking awesome it drifts pretty good too! Read more »

Team Japspeed are proud to announce their collaboration with Monster Energy Drinks for the upcoming 2012 season. Having sponsored Japspeed for the past two years, Monster Energy are taking the support up another level by baking their own Monster-liveried drift car, set to compete in both the British Drift Championship and Prodrift series driven by Ireland’s Shane O’Sullivan.

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It’s been two weeks since we got back from Birmingham, but Team Japspeed are back at the Top Gear Live show this weekend taking over the London ExCel arena! This awesome event combines all the best elements from the hit TV show with the main attraction being the spectacular live action arena, and it’s safe to say Japspeed stole the show at the NEC!

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During the weekend of November 11^th-13^th Team Japspeed were honoured to perform at the Top Gear Live show taking over Birmingham’s NEC arena. This was a unique opportunity for the whole team to present professional drifting to an entirely new audience, and it’s safe to say we didn’t disappoint.

Picture credits: Simon Miskelly

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It was a real honour to be invited along to Top Gear Live. We always knew it was going to be a whole load of fun, but to be completely honest, nothing prepared us for the reaction we got from you guys. The support has been overwhelming… and you know what? We cannot wait for Top Gear Live in London. It’s less than two weeks away and we’re super-pumped to be showcasing drifting to the crowds once again. This film shows the team in action yesterday. Enjoy!

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Earlier in the week we exclusively revealed something pretty damn awesome – our three drift cars would be putting on a quality drift display at this weekend’s Top Gear Live happening at the Birmingham NEC! Well on Wednesday evening the team loaded up the ol’ trusty Japspeed Mercedes van, hit the M6 and descended on the NEC ready to start perfecting the displays…

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Team Japspeed are looking for a Forza 4 driver to exclusively join their upcoming online drift team. Over the past 12 months Team Japspeed has found a huge amount of Facebook fans designing and drifting their own Japspeed cars from Forza, and as such want to extend their team online. As a team driver, the winner will get an exclusive Japspeed username, Japspeed-liveried cars and much more including an exclusive look behind the scenes into their BDC team!

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