crankandpiston grabs a few words with Abdulhadi Al-Qahtani, Saudi drifter and a big hitter on the Drift UAE scene. Meet Abdulhadi Al-Qahtani. He’s 28 years old, he’s from Saudi Arabia, and...
Well it’s happened. I’ve fallen so hard for the little Toyota 86 that I’ve gone and splashed around $26,000 of my own hard-earned money on one. Madness? Perhaps. But there is...
Continued from Part 1 - read that first! And so Ahmed Al Ameri got his chance to impress the Formula Drift organisers. The country’s best drifters auditioned for a chance to stage...
Two years ago, a young man was driving through Dubai when an advert came on the radio advertising Formula Drift‘s visit to the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. After nearly...
Curve Your Way is a product that has been wanted but never delivered before in the region. Thank to very opened minded gang of people at Red Bull Middle East though…...
Ah, Barcelona o Barcelona: the city that indulged us with its beauty and its soul; the city that is truly in the heart of every artist, designer and performer. Now it...
Since the weekend just past brought the 2012 Drift UAE season to a close at the Dubai Autodrome, we figured we’d Canon up and check out the paddock before the show...
Every year, overseas drivers attend various D1GP Drift rounds in Japan. This year there truly was a global competition with drivers around the globe attending Odaiba, to fight it out with...
‘Drifting’ in the Middle East is a regularly abused term. Take the countless videos on YouTube, for example, of imbeciles blowing the tyres off Nissan Patrols and destroying classic Japanese cars...
Since the international motorsport scene kicked into gear last month, we’ve seen thrills and a few spills in Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, Australia, Malaysia and – naturally – Dubai and Abu...
We had Luke Huxham on Facebook chat this morning, teasing us with this video. Suffice to say, the mix of a burning desire for the new wagon on the block and...
As we mentioned in our run down of the event, seemingly nothing could have stopped the 2012 UAE Red Bull Car Park Drift event from happening. Not even the mother of...