IDS rd. 1

Nürburgring, the famous 24h race and the IDS was part of it. On a tight track in th FSZ1 we hade fully 3 days of drifting.

the main thing to me was test the new engine setup, the differen suspension setup and see if the car handles well. - it did :) Even though i was only running 1,1 bar of boost because the track was pretty slow.

The judging in the single rund (qualification) was done in 2 sections, one with 75 points and a smaller section with 25 points. The Judge who was judging the smaller section gave me a the worst score i have gever get. But thats what i was used to in the 1st round of a pro series.
Luckily the Judges in the main section knew what they were doing 74 points with a mega entry were enough to qualify. Also the Driftbox was part of the judging.

Ogien from poland was the name of my first oponent - like it was very often in the past season.

VIDEO: inboard footage of the qualification runs

and my favourit picture of the weekend - Big Remmo applauding in the rear:


qualification: place 9 - i lost the first battle and took place 9 home with me.

Not that lucky was Dino, a friend of mine who crashed into some gantrys and damaged his car pretty hard.


a big Hammer, some cable ties and 1 intercooler later the car was running again.

the IDS Pro search

was an interesting event held in hockenheim at the paddocks. I was honestly a little bit shocked after i saw, that the IDS orga gave 45 Pro driver spots to 46 drifters. It was´nt really a pro search as everyone became Pro because 1 driver was disqualified.

got boost?

back from the states and freshly inspired i took my car to Seifert Performance to get it mapped from RNT

i actually wanted to get the car mapped at 1,8 bar of boost. but unfortunately the fuel pump died in the mapping session after we hit the 1,5 bar mark. But that was okay, the car was fast enough and had a lot of torque.

It did the 100 - 200 kp/h in 9,4 sec. @ 28°C temp. and the big GT-wing on it. Thats faster than a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera :)

trip to the united states of america

After all the work on the car was finished (appart from mapping) i went to the USA to watch NYC and some of the US drifting and of course some sightseeing.

bullriding :)


Brooklyn Bridge from the Hilton Millenium 52th floor:


times square:


statue of liberty:


emire state building from the top of the rockefella center:


on the other side - the central park:


big cat :)


and squirrel wrestling:



and now the car part:




Matt Walding (Formula D)


B-Rad (Formula D)

from IDC to IDS

after a lot of discussions and trouble the name IDC changed into IDS with a slitghly new organisation.

I normally dont really care about names or politics and was happy to start into a new season and see whats coming up.

Unfortunately the sponsorship with my tiresponsor endet because of the economic crisis. So i had to find myself a new sponsorship wich was not easy. With a little bit of help of the IDS organisation i found a new sponsor and were able to start into the new season.

new power for my car

After finishing the 2008 season with such a good result it was obvious that my car needs more power.

A lot of modifications together with a nice Garrett GT 30/71r should give me what i need.


with a lot of help from my Sponsors Seifert Performance and ZEX Tuning i finished all the work on my car in time.

2008 season summary

i started into the season and wanted to know if im able to compete in the pro level.

At the end of the year i finished on position 7 overall (2nd in the german ranking) and did all that with a fully street legal daily usable 280 bhp car. Even though the judging from round one and my "no contest" at round two i managed this result, wich makes me happy.

For the season 2009 i wanted to go for more power.

IDC Finals

A massiv flu and immense headache i had and did´nt really want to go all the way to Brüstem in Belgium. But i had to because i wanted to know my position at the end of the season.

So i travveled nearly 700km in my drift car with a bunch of tires next to me.

The Track was really nice rough tarmac, very fast i really would have enjoyed it, if there were not the flu.

Some fancy medicine made me stay up and do the qualification - place 12 was what i got no idea wich line i took, or how fast i went :)

My Oponent number 1 was Ogien, the polish vice Champion in his M5 powered 400bhp-E36. The first battle was 6:4 / 4:6 and the "one more time" run was tight 6:4 / 6:4 to me. This was a really hard and tight but a fair fight.




lucky i was when i got out of my car and take some medicine again - but i had no medicine for my next battle agains (Big) Remmo Niezen. Remmo is imho definately one of the very best european drifter and a learned a lot of him.

After loosing the first run where i nearly overtook him in the first section and doing a mistake in section 2 i decited to link the two sections wich left foot braking instead of using the handbrake. I just wanted to show Remmo that i practiced the left foot braking - and messed it up right infront of him with a nice spin, d´oh.

Anyway i felt better after Remmo said that i was one of the fastest on this track.


and some video footage of the weekend: random footage of the IDC final 2008

IDC rd. 6

After all this little successes i thought i should finish the IDC championship and see what i can get. Luckily i found a Sponsorship wich supported me with brand new tires and so my car got a new outfit with a lot of funky stickers :)

Hungary was the next place to be - A nice carting track near Budapest was our next target.

After a very long trip without sleeping we had some nice trainings with the hungarian drifters.

We put all Pro Drivers together for qualification, so there were nearly 70 drifters fighting for the top16.
Judging was very interesting, because 2/3 were judged by the driftbox score and 1/3 was judged by a team of international judges (line and style)
My overall result was position 4 (IDC 3) wich was not too bad. But i had the advantage to practice with the driftbox in the past so i knew how to get a good score = massive angle.

My first oponent in hungary was Alex Gräff, another german drifter in a V8 powered E28. After having a massive advantage in the first run by 8:2 for me i took it easy in the 2nd run. I struggles to keep the low speed alex was going and spun in the last corner - damn!

the new look of my car:

Krsko Avto Magazin Drift Pokal reloadet

We just had to go there again. So many nice people, good drifters and a cool racetrack.

So we went to the Finals of the Avto Magazin Drift pokal in 2009.

The Judging ist a bit different over here:
Top16 = 4 runs and 3 out of them will be judged
Top8 = 4 runs and all 4 will be judged - no mistake allowed ;)
after that twin battles.

I qualifyed into the top 16, and messed it up then endet up taking place 8 for me. But the big Final was the night drifting. We had to qualify again wich i did with brand new grippy tires on the rear and did a 100 point run - awesome tires!

My first oponent was the austrian vice champion in a 360bhp E30 - a lighter car and more Power than me - i was a bit excited. But took the advantage of my tires and won 7:3 and 7:3.

Nest one pleas :) Here he was Cimpo the slowenian champion and a very agressive drifter in a highly modifyed E36 M3. Okay i just tryed my best and spun out in the 2nd corner - next run was a 8:2 but im shure Cimpo did´nt fully attack .

VIDEO: Avto Magazin Drift Pokal 2008