Subiesport Magazine - November 2008 - (Page 86)

Orange Invasion - Europe Story By Shigenobu Kumakubo — Photos By Ross I’Anson IT’S BEEN A while everyone. This is Kumakubo from Team Orange. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to come to the United States at all this year. As some of the Subiesport Readers know, I am invading Europe these days with my RWD Subies. In this column, let me tell you guys about my trip to the U.K. drift event, and some cool Subies over there. From a few years ago, Europe started having drift events called EDC (European Drift Championship). This year, Team Orange decided to attack round 3 and round4 of EDC with my teammate, Kazuhiro Tanaka At Rd3, the event was held at Silverstone Circuit where I have drifted in the D1GP in the past and I managed to be placed in the second position. So that was my favorite circuit. Of course, Silverstone was known to host one of the very first F1 events. As a general manager of Ebisu Circuit, I love driving and drifting on different circuits, especially the good ones, so I was pretty excited to go to Silverstone. There were so many nice time attack cars and Japanese cars everywhere as EDC was a combined event with the Japanese Tuning Show. At the car show, there were at least a few hundred GCs and GDBs. Damn! Those guys were SUGOI (Amazing)! Of course we brought our two GDBs to the event so that we were never lonely without those Subie guys. So, who won the drift event? At the final, I lost to a Nissan Silvia and my result was 2nd position at Rd3. 86 NOVEMBER 2008 At Rd4 of EDC, we went to Santa Pod Raceway. This is a totally different track from Silverstone. This was actually a drag race course and the organizer made a special drift course on the parking lot and you Subiesport Readers know, Team Orange was in business! We love special parking-lot courses! The surface was unbelievably bumpy, and it seems that the local UK drivers don’t have much experience with that kind of rough surface and they were having troubles. By the end of the day, Team Orange had a one-two finish there (me first and Tanaka, second). We have received many congratulations from the USA after our wins at Santa Pod and we were so happy to have support from Subiesport Readers and my Las Vegas friends, Flat4 members. Let me introduce you guys to this coolest Subie shop in the UK, ZEN Performance. ZEN Performance enters Time Attack and became the UK champion last year and two years ago with their

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