the rebuild

after i did the motorshow essen, i decited to rebuild my engine. We took it off the car and some new bearings came in, that i can really upping the boost in 2010 ;)

Essen Motorshow 2009

The Essen Motorshow is the bigges car & tuning show in germany.

As part of the Sport Auto Drift Team i was invited to run a indoor drift show during the show.

VIDEO: Motorshow Essen drift demo
VIDEO: TV-report
VIDEO: Motorshow Essen Drift demo 2

2009 season summary

All in all i finished 12th in the IDS Pro championship, wich is not statisfying. I am okay with it, because after round 3 my personal targed was, to stay in the top16 and stay qualified for 2010. However doing only 4 out of 7 rounds, getting a 3-point penalty and blowing 6 gearboxes and 2 drive shafts / axles the 12th place is not too bad for me.

For 2010 i definately need a stronger gearbox :)

A big thanks to my supporters Seifert Performance and ZEX Tuning and of course to my Dad for helping me out a lot.

IDS the final

The IDS final and the Falken European Drift Final were at the same track like round 4 - the faster part of the Nürburgring GP-track.

I was very happy that some of the english drifters came over.

The first trainings was good, i early noticed im faster than most of the other cars so i raised the tire pressure.


Qualification was okay, not really smooth but okay and i was happy with my 10th position.



My first oponent was Michael Scherr, a german driver in a 300ZX. I was happy to have him as my oponent because our cars weight about the same and are running similar power.
But then again, i struggled with the speed difference, because Micha ran out of tires and had to use some cheapish 205 tires. I tryed to overtake him on the grass and spun.

In this picture i already spun about 180° and i was still right behind him :)


VIDEO: first half of the battle against Micha
congratulations to Micha, i was really happy for him, because he is one of the drivers who just enjoys drifting and a really nice person :thumb up:

In the Falken Final my first oponent was a guy from Finnland in a turbocharged E36 M3. To be honest i was a little bit scared, because they were good.
I won this battle 6:4 and 7:3 and made my way to compete against Big Remmo in his 400bhp-V8-powered E30. It started to rain slightly and i knew Remmo is fast so i lowered the tire pressure again.
I was surprised that i could do a 5:5 against one of the best drifters from europe in the first run. In the second run the judges scored it 5:5 again but they had to make a decision because we ran out of time. So Remmo won because i made the a small mistake in the second run. Good feeling to nearly do the even against on of your role models :)

VIDEO: big Remmo vs. me

some really cool picture were taken by Ross from Doristars - take a look at his website: www.doristars.com

and two more videos:
VIDEO: some of my own footage
VIDEO: very nice footage from Pascal Aachen

IDS rd. 6

was a round on a racetrack i have never been to - the Lausitzring. It is a super modern race track where the indycar series used to race in the past.

We had our own pits, with heater, toilet, showers and more luxury, than we ever had before.


Also the track layout was mega cool. We were doing 200 kph entrys just to see how fast we can go and also very fast 4th gear drifts through some banked corners.


The judget section was a very long and technical section including about 7 corners. And in training we were allowed to drift the whole entire track wich meanes you could kill a brand new set of tires in less than 2 laps :)

As much as i liked the Track, as much i was annoyed after i destroyed my gearbox before the qualification. Bad luck, but it seemed that im running slightly too much power for the standart gearboxes.

This was in the Oil, when i released it:


And this is a picture of my 3rd gear - not only 1 toot left:

that was gearbox number 6 so far.

But i shure i will be back at this really nice track!

my drift car in the Forza game

one of the Users from our driftforum has designed my ca in the Forza computergame - looks pretty good.

VIDEO: my S14 in Forza

road trip to England - JDM Allstars final

a friend of mine bought a car in england, so i organized a little road trip. We took the plane to London, were picked up from the airport in a big new Jaguar XJR.

and here is the scooby :)


after we picked his car up, we visited some friends and their shops and watched the final of the JDM Allstars series before we started our trip back home - 1300km.

IDS rd. 5

was held without me. I was just to annoyed of all the crazy decisions and the devious things wich happened under some drivers.

my second S14

a friend of mine was selling his S14. It was in mint condition with very low milage and i just could´nt withstand.

Here it is, my new daily driver - a ´95 S15 in bone stock condition.


of course it has to be tested properly and wich track would be better than the Nürburgring?


the fastest lap time i recorded was a 9:01 in a standart S14 with 200bhp :)

IDS rd. 4

the car was repaired and ready for the 4th round at the lower course at the Nürburgring GP track. A very fast track - apex speeds thru the "Schumacher-S" were at around 120 - 125 kph.

I really liked that track, but had technical problems again (broken gearbox and a snapped drive shaft / axle). In the qualification i blew a boost pipe off and only did 1 qualification lap - enough to qualify on 6th position.

I lost my first Battle against one of the polish guys. He simply overtook me in the first run on the inside. There was nothing i could do as my tires were cold and i washed out. An agressive but fair maneuver - drifting should always be like this!


3 days after the event i´ve received a phone call from the IDS orga telling me i got a 3 or 4 point penatly because i only did 1 instead of 3 qualification runs.

Okay thats it, im out of this stupid series - i was so upset about what drifting became in germany. Other drivers complaining and asking for penaltys for nothing - that no fun!