After Tokyo Auto Salon day two was over, we decided to hit up a local conveyor belt sushi joint near our hotel in Chiba. Afterwards we met up with Ben Green, a drifter from Texas (yeah!) who now lives in Japan. When I reached Ben on Facebook, I told him that we would be coming to Japan and that it would be super awesome if he could show us around. Ben quickly suggested that he show us where the locals drift as he himself isn’t too shabby at the sport. So after taking a one hour train ride near Yokohama, Ben and his crew picked us up at the station and from there, we pretty much played cat and mouse with the cops as we jumped from one spot to another, sometimes with up to 30 other cars following behind. Let’s just say we got back to the hotel at 7:30am. It’s now 8:30am. I decided to do a quick post to let you guys know what we’re doing. We have tons more to cover. I’m only letting you guys see a smidgen of what me and Danh have managed to capture, and now we’re off to TAS day 3! Sleep is for the weak!

Ben and company come and pick us up from the JR station.

This is the kind of traffic I could get used to!

Team MaydayGarage getting to know the locals

Ben Green, our hero/drifter/friend showing us how they get down in Japan.

Ben's car unfortunately got hit the from behind by another normal car (non drift related) the day we flew in, but fixed it for tonight

This is Ray, a drifter from Philly who now lives in Japan

Ray was kind enough to drive us around in his 4 door skyline

Another one of Ben's friends who owns this GTS-T R33

Ben drifting through the intersection with potentially oncoming traffic

Starting a train

This was shot at 5:30am this morning. Hardcore

Don't let the clean looks fool you, like most all cars in Japan, they're built to perform as well.

I wasn't kidding.

There were a ton of cars to look at besides the drifters.

More to come later! Stay tuned!

–David–
David@maydaygarage.com