Yes it is finally upon us, Toxic Drift Opening Day @ Jackson R/C!!!! 

Mark your calenders April 15th 2012 for a fun filled day of R/C Drifting. Come enjoy the day Drifting with Toxic Drift and fellow R/C Drifters a like. Listen to Music provided as you hold that drift line. Perfect your Drift chassis and show off custom body work. New to the R/C Drift scene, dont worry come and jump on the track with our Toxic rental R/C Drift cars available at the event. It will be a great and relaxing event to remember @ Jackson R/C.

Mark T. Films snapping Pictures and recording Video all day so be on your best drift angle.
Plenty of drift goodies will be available to purchase
Also special guest 1:1 show and drift cars!!!

$15.00 to slide all day from 12-7

House Rules
* no alcohol or drugs allowed...
* no selling of any kind allowed without the permission of the staff...
* please keep language clean, children might be present...
* no speeding or burnout on street or parking lot. Its for all of our safety

Lastly it is required that everyone have a amazing time @ Toxic Drift's Opening day @ Jackson R/C!!!!

Salvation Slide’s Blood and Fire Challenge
Saturday, March 31st
10:00am-7:00pm
Salvation Army Corps Community Center
13 Trinity Place
Montclair, NJ

10:00am-1:00pm – Open Drift Practice
1:00pm-2:00pm – Qualifying
2:00pm-3:00pm – Open Drift Practice
3:00pm-5:00pm – Competition
5:00pm-7:00pm – Open Drift Practice

$20 Drift/Comp Fee
- Lunch is provided!

Free to Spectate! Bring friends and family!

Parking available in building parking lot and underground garage

      AWARDS, RULES AND JUDGING OVERVIEW
after the bump.....

Bruckners Hobbies from Bronx, NY asked Team DoriHoshi and Team Skavenger to host a Drift comp/demo for the WRAM(Westchester Radio Aero Model) Show on February 24-26 at the Secaucus Expo Hall in NJ. The 2 teams organized drift demos for Friday and Sunday, and the competition for Saturday. The day brought out stiff competition from the newcomers, and tandem battles were fought hard. 
 At the end, Team Skavengers member Mando came away with First, Team Shaolins, Ray with second and Skavengers team captain Blue with third. It was a good turnout and the WRAM spectators were very happy of the presentation.
Here are a few photos from Saturdays comp. You can find more in my Photobucket.

Located in the Industrial section of Harrisburg PA., on a whole city block; The Farm Show Complex has been home to Motorama for over 30 years. Motorama is a competition venue of all sorts. They host from robot wars to car shows and anything in between. If it has a motor and/or wheels, you will find it at Motorama.
It is an event that last 2 days all weekend long. but started on friday for some. Arriving at the complex to give Driftsylvania Productions a hand setting up the track and props to make it appealing for the spectators. Thanks to all the early birds with helping to get this done. For when the building closed at 9, The drift track was ready…

Bronx NY hobby store Bruckners Hobby will be hosting along with NY drift teams Team Dorihoshi and Team SDC a Drift Demo and Competition at the WRAMM Show at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus NJ this weekend; February 24-26th. 
Friday the 24th  - TDH/SDC Demo
Saturday the 25th - Comp and Open Demo
Sunday the 26th - TDH/SDC Demo
Doors open at 10am  
$12 Entrance fee 
Join us as we push the growth of R/C drifting.
Open to all drifters. 
 
Door Prizes & Awards for:
Best repped team
Tandem Battle 1st, 2nd & 3rd 
Best Team Tandem
Freestyle Drift 1st, 2nd &3rd
Best Drift Shell
Best Drift Missile

For more info contact:
TDH - PENO - [email protected]
SDC - Migs - [email protected]

Tucked away at the Montclair Citadel, in Montclair NJ is the Salvation Army Community Center gymnasium. Here on Thursday nights you can find the North-East drifters tuning and getting practice runs in at "Salvation Slide"- a new indoor facility brought to us by Team ZORZ.

Doors are open from 6:00-10:30, and FEE is 5 dollars.
 Track space is huge and there is a separate room with tables and chairs for tuning and battery charging. Bring your own power strip and extension cord.

                 There will be 2 sessions:   
beginners: 6:00-7:15
Nov/Exp: 7:15-10:30

Here are some photos from last week. Thanks to Team Zorz, Raikou and Toxic Drift for coming out. 
You can find a few more in my Photobucket.   

TAKEN FROM THE CAPTION UNDER THE VIDEO:
"K&N is giving away 5 Limited Edition Vaughn Gittin Jr. HPI Remote Control Drift Cars. This Monster Energy, K&N, Falken Tire, Ford Mustang themed Drift R/C Car is a model of the 2011 Ford Mustang drift car that Vaughn Gittin Jr. drove in Formula Drift last year and was featured at the 2011 SEMA Show. 

 For more information about K&N's Limited Edition Vaughn Gittin Jr. RC Drift Car Sweepstakes or to enter, go to K&N's Facebook page at Facebook.com/knfilters." 


Now check out a cool video.! 

On New Years Day, New York's first indoor track dedicated specifically for RC drift enthusiast - House of Dorifto - hosted their Grand Opening event. The day brought out the local drifters from as far as PA to get sidewayz. The building is located in downtown New Rochelle NY. It is actually the home to NY's newest indoor touring track, but they graciously accommodated space in their facility to lay down a drift track.
 The track is layed on a polished floor with tape and cardboard corners for now - "They do plan on some upgrades in the near future to track". There is a pit area with tables and electricity and an air compressor. You do need to bring your own chairs. There are places to eat in the vicinity of the building plus food places do delivery to the track.
Thanks to SNTRL and Team Dori Hoshi for taking the time to get the place right for opening day.
I received a new camera lens for christmas so this was a great chance for me to try it out. I couldnt find the lenses sweet spot but I did get a few nice photos.

BIG THANKS - to everyone for dealing with me being in the way alot of the time when I was there. I do hope the photos can express my gratitude. 
Now on to the pics.

You can view more photos of the day at my Photobucket

I made a few boo-boos in my year end review so I wanted to make sure that I fix my mistakes and give credit to where credit is due. 
A missed date but not forgotten was July 29, 2011. Driftsylvania Productions with the help of Toxic Drift, put on a drift demo in front of ROAR officials at Jackson Raceway in NJ. This was to acquire the priviledge of using the Jackson Raceway track for an upcoming drift event.
Dorifest was sponsored by Driftsylvania Productions and not Toxic. Toxic were the people that helped with getting the day in order at the track. Also at Dorifest - Jackson Raceway, we were graced with having special appearances by Gardella Racing,  Canibeat and Formula Drift Driver Eric O'Sullivan who was the guest judge.

As the year dwindles to an end and the North-East takes an event hiatus until The weekend of February 18/19 2012- MOTORAMA. I thought we could "manji" down memory lane of 2011.