On the same weekend of XDC, we packed up and went straight to Top Drift Round 1 in Willow Springs for Sundays competition. Super busy weekend, thanks to our entire crew for making it happen. With fresh tires on all the cars were lined up for qualifying. 

The judges Henry Schelley, Hiro Sumida, and Justin Pawlak were awaiting to sort out the top 16, and here they are! 

Now we are ready for some tandem. Great battles!!! Many of the XDC drivers made it out so the competition was fierce. Charlie O was a busy man on this Sunday.

 In the end, David Briggs.. yes the Canadian guy that won XDC takes it home! Great weekend for him. Big Congrats for the weekend sweep. Not easy to do with guys like Ryan Kado and Steve Chan driving against you.

-John

We would like to welcome the Xtreme Drift Circuit to Irwindale. Bob and all the event organizers have been really great to us and extended us to do tire service for all the drivers at Round 1. I see so much potential in this series.

 Busy Day as always when it comes to drift events. Can’t thank Hankook enough for our great tent. Alberto as usual doing most of the work, while I cop a squat.

Stan drifting the inner bank was looking solid all weekend. The XDC event has brought back a lot of memories. I haven’t seen Forest Wang’s S14 since Top Drift a few years back.

Also coming back into the scene was Alex “Baby” Kors and Quoc Ly from Drift Speed. It was very much like a reunion of drivers we have not seen in a while. 

Congrats to David Briggs for Top place at Round 1. Coming from Canada, he is definitely devoted and a force to be reckoned with.

And thanks to Jack (CTO) and Larry Chen (Driftfotos.com) for the pics from the weekend!

-John