Hungarian Drifters (the birth of drifting in Hungary)

[ZaX]

I nicked most of this picutres from these fine sites, so I hope owners don't kill me next time I go to Hungary. Thank you all for lot's of great great photos.
http://duen.hu/foto.php?o=foto_resz&id=9...8859a26a85
http://nitrocity.hu/modules.php?name=cop...s&album=29
http://www.bmwpower.hu/gallery/thumbnail...album=1020
http://www.carstyling.hu/galeria.php?id=...20&start=0
http://www.partyphoto.hu/index.php?page=...ty_id=8241
http://www.srh.hu/index.php?action=pictu...&x2=1&x3=1
http://www.toljadneki.hu/download/kepek/...esz_1.html
http://kep.tar.hu/eladocucc/50321231/23555476#2

First of all, I must say thanks to Gergely aka SutteR for beeing the best host I've ever met. He was with us 3 days all the time on dispostion helping with traffic, acomodation, food / drinks, translation...everything.

We left Zagreb/Croatia on friday afternoon and headed to Budapest/Hungary, an 350km long trip.
We arrived to Budapest at around 22h. Meeting point was Tesco fuel pump. Since my car pefers 100 octane fuel we moved to OMV gas station.
Here we filled up our cars for the next day competition.
My girlfriend removing the bugs from the car.


Croatian team, form the left ZaX(200SX), Hrc (AE86) and Kas (AE86). We also had support car, Citroen C3 crowded with our cheerleaders and suporters.


From the left, host Victor, Din aka GodzillaGTR here, Ines, Boris, ZaX and host Zora


After that we headed to hotel were slept over while SutteR went home fixing his AE86 after washing and engine.
In the morning Sutter picked up us and lead to the Tokol.

We parked our cars and started to prepare them for the drifting.


Me, replacing the tires


Ines, my mechanic helping me out with usual cleaning and checking the car


Hrc, checking the oil level


My tires that will soon go in to smoke, I had 3 pairs / 6 tires + 2 spares for driving home


Machine and driver, ready to hit the track.


Toillets Lot's of them.


Tire change was also posibille, but not much help to me since they didn't bring protecting rubber on the machie to save my polished lip from scratching.


Judges and V.I.P.'s were in the truck. Great position to watch the competition, and also in the shade


OK. This is one of the best things I saw on drift competitions. 2 cells measuring the entry speed at the end of the straight. AWSOME. My speeds were in the range of 75-85kmph.


This was the layout of the track. Long straight, wide left hand corner that closes it self and then combination of smaller ones.
IMHO perfect for all the cars. Low powered cars could drift entire corner since braking drift could be used.


ZaX and Sutter


Hrc doing some big angle drifts


Who says ae86 can't smoke?




Kas with his new pretty paintjob



SutteR had one of the highest entry speeds that day. Just like ae86 should do.



Competition was very strong, best so far. 44 drifters, some of them were rally drivers with rally cars.
Benz - Rare car seen on drift competitions


One of many BMW's


This car fell of the ramp as you can see. Doesn't matter, it can drift


E36 bimmer, had nice rims in the back. Good perfomer


E30 with some kind of engine swap, aslo noticed 5 lug, so e30 M3 diff or something like that


Puci, winner of the first round. He did 3 very good runs and bit messed up the last one hitting the pile of tires.


AFAIK M5 engine swap in this E30. There were some more wicked engine swaps in E30 like 3.5l engine....


Boost gauge, must me installed by my mate Frx1. At least it's his style


This is me, giving the interview to RTL television. You can see the video on the link in the end


Some cars had small problems.


My Cherleaders and supporters


And now lot's pictures of me drifting. There are so much pictures that are sooo good.




Entry speed - 78kmph and some nice angle


Entry speed - 79kmph, good angle and smoke








Final lap, no more fear of killing the tires, I smoked them big time



These 3 gentlemans decided that the winner of this competition is...


...ZaX, 2nd place goes to Puci, 3rd was Geza with Lada!


Girls taking place on podium



Zora and Sutter with me on the podium


Part that it's hardest for me is packaging the stuff after the event. Here is Ines, Boris and Vanja helping me out with that.



My GF was very happy as you can see.



Some nice statics





After the cometition I was so tired that I felt in to the bed.
Next day (sunday) SutteR tooks us to sightseeing of Budapest.




After short sightseeing I headed home to prepare the car for the exibition in Croatian cinema.
Car is at cinema untill the next round of Drift Match Croatia 22. july in Karlovac. Hope to see some of the 44 hungarian drifters from Tokol in Karlovac.


So current situation with my drifting carrer this year goes something like this:
25.02. 2006 SCDT Adria, Italy 5th place
30.03. 2006. DMC Zagreb 2nd place
06.05. 2006. DMC Pula 1st place
20.05.2006. 2. Avtomagazinov Drift Challenge Logatec, Slovenia 1st place
17.06. 2006 Ada Huja Drift, Serbia 1st place,
08.07.2006. Tokol Drift Nap, Hungary, 1st place

Big thanks to: Vanja, Boris, Ines, Din, Renata, Hrc, Katarina, Kas, Format X, Mare, Danijela, Gergely, Viktor, Zora and everybody else that I meet that day.
I had very nice weekend that I won't forget easy.

Videos from the the Tokol can be downloaded on this links
http://www.online.rtlklub.hu/player/?vka...asid=1679#
http://www.mconet.hu/srh/DRIFT/1.MPG
http://www.e30.hu/Radir/Norba+Radir_Tsuiso_tokol.wmv
http://www.mconet.hu/srh/DRIFT/2.MPG
http://www.e30.hu/Drift/II.Drift_Day_200..._tokol.wmv

Results in excel table here
http://www.helppoint.hu/drift/vegeredmeny.xls

Best regards
ZaX