On Wednesday the 17th of February, I met with Lostboy in Stuttgart to work on something of FUKU proportions. We sat in a local Starbucks for about five hours working, a period of time my Macbook Pro managed on a single charge with intensive image processing, airport on, and 100 percent screen brightness without breaking a sweat. This is one of the two things that resulted.

About two weeks ago, I got a skype message from my good friend, part time drifter and full time FUKU artiste Jazz “Lostboy” Williams asking me if I was game for visiting the Automobilmesse Erfurt, where he and another good friend as well as the famed “Polizei Drifter” Alexander Gräff were due to put on a small drift show. As we had a blast for the roadtrip to the round 2 of the International Drift Series mid last year, I gave him my green flag. As the day approached, it became clear that the area allotted to do the drifting was a lot smaller than what we would have wished, and that there was a potential weather risk, and putting a 400km trip with the drift car on the trailer was too much of a gamble. Alex’s wife and also a Pro Class drifter Corinna Gräff gave me a ring to tell me that Alex had decided not to attend the event but that we still had our hotel reservations.

Halfheartedly I called to tell him that we’d be the only team driving to the show. After having a discussion with Jazz’s team chief about the plans for the coming season, Jazz decided too that he’d make the rational decision of not taking the risk but rather visit and hang out at a Snow Drift event organized by yet another good friend and Pro Class drifter Oliver Harsch at the snowed-over Elchingen airstrip.

I had almost closed the drift show chapter, until I rang Alex to confirm that he was not attending, when he informed me about a quick discussion with his sponsors and them having evaluated the potential of the event and his decision to “screw the weather risk and get going.”

From then on, it was a chaos of phone calls because me and Jazz needed to get going. And fast, with less than two days to go before the event kickoff, we needed tires, a trailer and a tow car. A few dozen other phone calls later, I hit the sheets to save my last night before the madness crept in.

As is my trademark, I slept right through my alarm only to be woken up by Jazz on the phone. His message was pretty clear, “You are not gonna sleep. Roll out of bed, brush you teeth, take a shower and call me back. <Click!>”

At the end of the day we had sorted out the tyre issue and Jazz was due to pick me up around 9, but in our timezone, thats about midnight.

We set off only to stop less than 2 km into the trip for dinner and the ever so healthy Burger King.

Jazz had some weird condensation error on his camcorder, which we grabbed in order to capture some behind the scenes stuff from the show.

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Late November last year I attended the International Motor Show in Luxembourg following an invite from a good friend where I got to meet Team Triple Black who offered the crowds an spine shattering mix of  smoke, noise and chaos, but having been told that they boys were actually asked by the show officials to “keep it down”, I wonder what a full on show by Team Triple Black is gonna be like…

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Here’s some fairly raw material from the Falken European Drift Championship held by the International Drift Series late last year. This bit of footage shows Markus Militzer warming up in his E36 M3, chasing among others, Alexander Gräff, Dino Rockstroh and Dimi Patsatzis. I ended up wrecking that onboard camera. Anyone kind enough to help me buy a new one so I can keep on providing you more onboard action?

This one is for all my friends out there. Without you all, I’d be black and white.

Here are the Team Triple Black boys tearing up the tarmac at one of their shows at the International Motor Show in Luxembourg late last year.

A typo-design wave hit me sitting in the train today. After all, it was headed for Berlin.