More photos and info coming later today, but Rhys Millen and his mighty Red Bull Pontiac Solistice captured first place, the $25,000 purse and the title of World Champion at the inaugural World Championship event. The $25,000 is the largest prize in the history of drifting. Rhys’s teammate Daijiro Yoshihara took second and $15,000 behind the [...]

Some things on this planet successfully display their potential with a simple stance. A cobra, for example, need do nothing more than spread its hooded head and hiss. Without anything further you know its time to either run or kiss your ass goodbye. Mercedes has achieved a similarly menacing posture with the AMG SL 65 [...]

Oy. Yeah. Wow. Right. Ford has done something very interesting. With a big truck, no less. They call it the F150 SVT Raptor. We saw some video of it screaming across barren desert last Friday and today the Blue Oval boys (and a lady or two) took us out to the same scorched earth and [...]

Yep. Mr. Foust is ditching his tried and true Nissan 350Z for a Scion TC for next year’s competition. Wondering how a front-driver is going to get it’s ass out around a drift course? Probably with lots and lots of wrenching. The crew from Papadakis Racing will be converting a production TC into a rear-wheel [...]

Our boy Tanner Foust is a busy guy. Not only will he be prepping for domination in the Red Bull World Drifting Championship mid next month, but on November 6 the back-to-back Formula D champ will be handing out the sixth annual Gran Turismo Awards at SEMA. The awards get dished out in several categories, [...]

Come November 15, thirty-two drivers will hit the tarmac to get all sideways and smokey for the Red Bull Drifting World Championship. The entrant list includes the sport’s top drivers from 12 countries — from Japan to Ireland. Friend of Fiends and back to back Formula D champ Tanner Foust will be attempting to once again [...]

I was chatting with our buddy Tanner Foust the other day and he told me that he’d just bought a used 1976 Porsche 912E. As an early Porsche nut, I was somewhat surprised as IMHO there probably isn’t a less interesting variant of Porsche’s eternal rear engine line. The early longhood 912s of the late [...]

As it says. The first episode of the TV coverage of the 2008 Formula Drift season featuring the season opener from Long Beach airs at 1pm PST/4pm PST on Speed Channel on Sunday. Further episodes of the season play through the beginning of December. Without giving too much away, Tanner Foust won the championship a [...]

Who knows. NBC hasn’t said a thing about the UK’s gift to car geekery or its US debut. What they have said is that the atrocity that is the Knight Rider remake is guaranteed another nine episodes — making it all the way through the remainder of the season. I was an impressionable tyke when [...]

Friend of ‘fiends, Tanner Foust got put on the spot recently on what his dream car is. Despite recent drives in mega-cars like the Lamborghini Reventon and Pagani Zonda F, there’s no simple answer to what seems like this simple question. There’s a reason this guy’s hosting Top Gear USA… Check the vid after the [...]