In case you haven’t heard already, super-hoon, Travis Pastrana is planning an attempt at doubling the world record for jumping a car. And he’s doing it with a twist–out into the Long Beach Harbor across water onto a pontoon on New Years Eve. In front of a huge crowd of partiers and live on ESPN. [...]

I’ll be the first to admit the drift scene really isn’t my bag o’ tricks. I bow before the kind of skill it takes to kick a rig sideways and hold it, and the level of personal expression the cars themselves allowed are bad ass. Still, I have trouble wrapping my mind around the subjective [...]

While Lieberman was strutting his stuff in a bright yellow Corvette at the Thunderhill 25 Hours and Mr Baruth was losing an eight hour enduro in Atlanta, I stayed a little closer to home and indulged my other petrol passion by wandering down to the Cycle World Motorcycle Show at the Long Beach Convention center. [...]

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 [...]

The anticipation for the first Formula D round in 2008 was so huge that the FD staff had to request additional grandstands from the Long Beach Grand Prix Association because the pre-sale tickets outnumbered the original allotment of seats! Even with the additional stands the event still eventually overflowed into a standing room only [...]