first roll out in 2010

the snow is gone and i´ve got both S14´s back on the road.



the daily S14 got some new 245 summer shoes, and the drift car needs some more cruises to run in the rebuild engine.

the new HKS gearbox will be mounted within the next week. After that i will raise the boost a little bit and hit the 600Nm mark later this year ;)

carnival drift matsuri

and again i came in my daily driver for some fun on the Hockenheimring.

It was around -5°C all day long but so much fun with a lot of different drivers, and very crazy track conditions - snow, ice, water, oil - pretty much everything.

Drift Demo @ ABF expo Hannover

My friends company Driftworld did a Drift Demo at the ABF show on the Expo Hannover.

My car for the weekend was a E39 M5. I really liked the 5.0l V8 and the handling of the car.


We did a show for slightly over 20000 spectators on one weekend.
VIDEO: my onboard footage
VIDEO: some practice footage

Drift Matsuri Nürburgring

2nd of january we had a small drift matsuri at the Nürburgring GP-Track. As my drift car still had the engine rebuild i went in my bone stock daily driver and had some really good fun out there.

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