Donnie's JAPAN ADVENTURES Thread

[cfrost]

man that snow racing looks fun

anybody else notice anything..... odd..... about this picture?

[alex]

hi Donnie! when will you start working on your RB25 turbo upgrade?

[Slapshotnerd]

Cool story bro.

I remember seeing you at Tokyo Auto Salon '09 at the drift demo. I shot a few photos, then went back inside to keep shooting. It was pretty fun.

Good luck with D1SL

[Ninja Asaassin]

AWESOME!!!!!!

and the tire print is epic also

[Jonny Fonseca]

nicec pics! i like ur tire painting on the wall!!!

[BigGameHit]

While Deployed To Iraq for 8 months, I ordered a host of parts. Last week I installed my GT-R over-fenders to cover up my damage in the rear... FRP and tire debris don't mix, I already cracked them up in some places drifting the other day.









point of no return.

[BigGameHit]

Drift Matsuri 2009 Ebisu Circuit

This has to be one of the most baddest *Censored**Censored**Censored* drift events on the planet. Its held three times a year. 36 hours of straight drifting. Many cars don't make it past 3 hours because the drivers go nuts instantly with their Missiles. I had a great time and drove along side D1 Champion Daigo Saito at some points of the day. Awesome time.







Me sliding my buddies 180 throughout the day. Was my first time drifting a car that was not mine. He gave me permission to kill it and kill it I did.











multiple wall taps



Luckily we had the parts to fix it and continue into the night.


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Prepping for MSC, D1SL and Spring Drift Matsuri 2010












drifting around town picking up parts from UpGarage a buddy spotted me in traffic. Which is Horrible in Japan.









Parts pile for Matsuri

[BigGameHit]

Sadly In this area of Japan is the worst in relation to snowfall but that yields lots of fun in the mountains snowboarding.


This is the view outside of my window.



All of that Snow is eventually blown this way... 2way in the snow is not very fun on purpose lol.




When the track is frozen over, we venture to the mountains... drifting standing up is what I call it. The picture below is me standing on the Peak of the mountain in the previous pictures. elevation of something like 5000 feet or so.









I also embark on arm baring people in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu... for those that didn't know.. what is now BJJ started in Japan Ironically in the same place I live right now.





Submitting a Blue belt on my first day as a white belt lol.... not that it really matter in the grand scheme of things



Racing doesn't stop at our track though, its year aroudn. I competed in a Snow Time Attack. I came out with the fastest time for any FR vehicle there. I personally thought I did bad and left before the weather got worst.... :/







The gentleman in this picture was at the time 17 and highly followed by Team Orange. He is now 18 years old and part of Team Orange. Just finished his first season of D1SL. Very cool little dude and sick driver He will be D1GP in no time.









Photos by: Allan Arcega

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With the winter comes time to stock up and install parts. Im about to upgrade my turbo setup to an Holset H1C. Also got new D2 RS coilovers to replace my blown Kei Office coilovers that were ruined in that snow time attack.













Running Power FC with FC Datalogit.

[BigGameHit]

A few swings of the hammer and things are somewhat back in order







Random shots from Track Days which if we can help are every weekend. We burn junk tires from the auto hobby shop on base.











yes the girls are super bad *Censored**Censored**Censored* here



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In line waiting for Instruction From Naoto Suenaga of Team Orange

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Tokyo Auto Salon 2009

Ventured 8 hours down south to Tokyo to check out the Auto Salon. We were representatives from our site in GaijinDrift.com. We were allowed to obtain press passes and a front row seat to everything the Auto Salon had to offer. For this being my first time in Tokyo and at the Salon.... its was completely awesome to hang out and talk to the D1 guys behind the scenes with my baby Japanese skills.






























Photos by: Allan Arcega

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Drift Demo by Erik Elder

[BigGameHit]

Sup Guys

Alex asked me to post up my time here in Japan. Its been awesome outside of military work. I have met many people that I watched on tv for years and done cool things. Ill use this to show what im up to In japan from Racing to Snowboarding to Jiu Jitsu etc.

Little Information about me:


My name is Donald Jackson, I am originally from Baltimore MD and currently stationed in Misawa Japan. I have been actively participating in motorsports for 10 years now. I am a SCCA member of the Washington DC Region and MotorLand Speedway in Nango Japan. Before I began actively racing, I spent several years learning/building and maintaining full-on street prepped cars and gaining lots of road knowledge. When I am not performing my duties as an Airman in the United States Air Force, I am busy working on and preparing my cars for various events. My current and future plans are to enter as many events as physically possible in order to build my racing resume and gain higher skills. After my Air Force retirement, I plan to race more frequently on the ProAm level.

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The Saga Begins Arrival in Japan August 2008. The first thing I did upon arrival was go to the local drift track the following day along with upgarage, autobacs etc. I found and purchased my R33 for 4k. I wanted a R32, but all the ones available were AWD.





The Toilet cleans you!!!












Here was the car when I was looking to buy it.... as soon as I took ownership, the stripes came off immediately. Also Painted the Misters gold.



3 days later





Car was pretty clean but I only had the mindset of drifting.. so the cleanliness would slowly disappear lol. Went drifting very shortly after buying the car













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Owning a Skyline is not as special here... they are like civics. This was not a Planned Photo Shoot... just happen to be the spot I parked in.. Thought I would take the picture though.



Shortly after I embarked on drifting the R33, It began to feel good to me and I would try different things.. well one day things went wrong and I smacked a wall pretty good. luckily the junkyards are full with cars junked by Americans so parts are not really an issue.




Yes that is my tire print on the wall.










time to go looking for parts... and then onto the hobby shop to hook up with other drifters