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Clipping Point: Interview’s with todays top drifting stars, industry insiders & upcoming grassroots drifters.

2011 Clipping Point: Steffen Moy

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EverythingDrift: When Did you First Get into Drifting . And how did you meet Fredric.

Steffen Moy: I have always been into drifting, or motorsports overall. About 10 years ago, I used to race a Honda Civic in road racing, and I have been a mechanic for a friend of me that did some rallying. I have always been into cars, mostly RWD, spending so many hours on snowy roads. As drifting became more popular in Norway, I have always been in the scene, ether as a mechanic, judge, etc., but never competed myself. But yeah, once upon a time I helped Fredric tow his drift car, a BMW back to Norway from a drift event in Sweden. We both had the same passion about the sport and I guess it just clicked. The weekend after that he was going to Finland for an event up there, which is a long drive from our hometown. I wanted to help him out, so I joined him. After that we have had so many miles in a van with a trailer and now we are competing in the biggest drift series in the world. I did not expect that 4 – 5 years ago!

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2011 Clipping Point: Mickie Frial

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EverythingDrift: When did you first get into drifting and how did you find out about it? And who or what inspires your drifting style?

Mickie Frial: I first got into drifting around 1998-2000.  My cousin Tom always had Option Mags and Hyper Rev laying around and at the time my dad owned the 240SX that I now drive.  My cousin would always ask my dad to sell him the 240 once he got the money.  Cool Fact of the day – my dad bought my car new off the lot in 1990 and I’ve kind of been in love with it ever since.  I remember seeing pictures in Option of 180sx’s and I was like “You can do that with my dad’s car? Cool!”  I inherited the car in 2000 and promptly proceeded to crash it up a curb during a massive understeer.  I told my dad someone cut me off and I swerved to avoid a big accident.  I dont think he believed me but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

There aren’t a lot of people that inspire my drifting style, but if I had to pick I’d say Taniguchi and Koguchi from 2001-2004 era.  Their cars were basically badass street cars.  Nowadays most pro drift cars look like freeway billboards.

I think I’m more inspired by music more than anything.  I’m going to see Megadeth and MachineHead in July and I’m super psyched on that.

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Throwback Thursday – 2006 Clipping Point: Alex Pfeiffer

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This week’s “Throwback Thursday” is the continuation or part 2 of the Tyler McQuarrie interview we reran last week.  We have known Alex Pfeiffer for a long time now. I have seen him build cars, drift pretty much every car out there with multiple teams. Currently under Megan Racing in a Nissan 350z, this guy gets around and I have always been a fan of him and what he does. Next stop Atlanta after making Top 32 in the first round of Formula Drift. Let’s look back and remember where he was in 2006.

Honda Tuning: How did RS*R recruit you to become their first American driver?
Alex Pfeiffer: Back in 2002, they had the first RS*R Drift Festival in the U.S. at Irwindale, and I won that event. From then on, anytime they needed a driver to do a drifting demo or wanted to have someone test their cars, they always hit me up. We’ve always had a good working relationship, and things just went from there. Continue reading →

Throwback Thursday – 2006 Clipping Point: Tyler McQuarrie

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The 2011 Formula Drift Session begins now and we wanted to take a look back this week at last years 8th place driver. Taking 3rd place overall in 2009 and been in all makes and models of cars from Toyota to Honda to a Porsche and now Nissan .  We look to see Tyler haveing a good year comin back in his Falken 350z for this session.  Heres a 2006 interview we did with Tyler for Honda Tunning Magazine(One of the few magazines still in business thank god).  
Honda Tuning: How did you get into the RS*R car? Did they approach you?
Tyler McQuarrie:I was talking to them a little bit last year around mid-season; they kind of knew that I was looking to get into a new car. Around halfway through the season, I had made the decision that I wanted to look into other opportunites beyond the Jasper Supra, and I started talking to Ben from RS*R USA from there. Yokohama was the tire sponsor for the Supra, and I’ve been with them for other racing events for quite a while; they really helped to facilitate the talks since RS*R was also sponsored by Yokohama. At the time, RS*R was just looking to run a second car, and continued to have Alex as their primary driver in the S2000. I think they were hoping to run two S2000s, but when Alex moved on to judging, my spot in the driver’s seat was pretty much a done deal. Continue reading →

2011 Clipping Point: Charlie Ongsingco

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We had the opportunity to ask Charlie Ongsingco of the Drifting organization Just Drift some questions to get to know him better and allow you some of the drivers of the Top Drift series some insight to Charlie.

EverythingDrift: When did you first get into drifting and how did you find out about it?
Charlie Ongsingco: Initial D!!!!! Just kidding.. lol. I raced carts when I was a kid, and I would just toss it sideways all the time and laugh. I wasn’t going to win anyway; I was too heavy for karts. So I just messed around and
had fun with it. Then 10 years or so ago, I was watching drift vids with friends before going to the canyons and run. Few chassis later… we learned drifting. The hard way.

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