Our friends over at RE-XtremeBlogspot took the time to cover the 52 Annual Tokyo Hobby Show in a drifters state of mind. He wrote an article on his blog page. I am sharing his article with others who may not know of his blog.
He brings news of new products to be released by Yokomo and Tamiya. Here are a few shots but take the hyperlink to his site for more coverage.

YankiDori held their first ever drift comp at Salvation slide. The comp brought out some tough battles on a tough course. Veterans, newcomers and most of the local teams made it a good competition.
Big shout to Little Gabriel for stepping up to his first comp. Gabriel is our youngest drifter from the area. More on him in another article.
Podium finishers are:
1st- Migs (Skavenger drift)
2nd- Freddy (V95)
3rd- Cuba (Toxic)

Look for more YankiDori comps in 2013.
Photos were taken by my kids.

Toxic Drift will be holding the Final round, Round 3 of their drift series on August 26, 2012. It will be held at Jackson RC Raceway in Jackson NJ. 
Competition time is 12-6. 
Entry fee: $15.00
Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
See you there.

Round 2 of Toxic's Dori Fest was held at Staten Island's Midland Beach. Here is home to an oval track located right on the boardwalk. The weather was just beachy and The comp brought out the best in everyone. 
The comp started out with very close qualifying scores, making the tandem battles nothing to miss. Round one started out with some OMT's. and a battle that brought 2nd and 3rd place winners from round one head-to-head.
The battles continued on and left only one standing.
                CONGRATS TO RAFA
Podiums standings are:
1st: Rafa
2nd: Mikey 
3rd: Lil Willie

Standings after Round 2 are:
1. Rafa (10) - 11 
2. Kinto (13) - 10 
3. Mikey (12) - 10 
4. Hyoung (11) - 9 
5. Dave (16) - 7 
6. Ltl Will (10) - 7 
7. Cuba (9) - 5 
8. Link (6) - 4 
9. Freddy (7) - 3 
10 Ray (9) - 2 
11. Big Will (4) - 2 
12. Takumi (1) - 2 
13. Sergio (0) - 2 
14. Rob (5) - 1 
15. Chase (0) - 1
 Here are a few photos from the event. 

You can always check out more photos here.
Round 3 will be at August 26 at Jackson RC Raceway in Jackson NJ.

 Rc drifting is getting recognized all over the world. 
RCDrift IDF "France" has made a presence the last 3 years at 
 "World Model" the biggest model fair in France.
"Mondial Du Modelisme"
It was Mondial Du Modelisme 32nd international event displaying model making toys. The event witnessed around 400 exhibitors showcasing planes, cars, boats, trains, tools, Doll houses and furniture, games and educational toys. 
This is the third time the crew of "RCDRIFT-IDF" were invited to submit RC drifting. Every year they make an enormously new track.
 This year the decorations consisted of: signalisaion on the road with signs indicative road markings, plants everywhere. a small Japanese town with a garage, petrol station, a koban, a familly mart, skate park, tennis court and car park full of body. we also had a real silvia S13 on our stand.
RCDRfit-IDF organized a competition with the AS factory team (a team contest at the "king of Europe" European drift championship) to judge.
Here were the results of the comp.
1st - Nuno Vieira 
2nd - Clement Bigot
3rd - Franck Peugnier 
Congratulations fellas..

Here are a few photos by - Alexander Leboeuf 
more can be found at link below
https://picasaweb.google.com/100596012501038048077/RCDriftMondialDuModelisme2012# 

Toxic Drift held their first rc drift event of the series at Autoland Scions Triple threat meet/Car show. This was a Scion dealership that was hosting a car show and barbecue. The intended plans were to run the event outside, but do to rain throughout the day the dealership allowed for it to take place indoors
(BIG SHOUT TO AUTOLAND SCION -Springfield NJ)
The layout was designed by Hono Circuit and nicely decorated with an overpass, garage, safety wall with fence and Tetsujin course markers. Lots of markings to find that perfect line. The competition brought drifters from all parts of NY and NJ making the competition stiff. Practice time started and the drifters hit the floor, only to realize some of us have never driven on tile floor before, some adjustments in tire and suspension settings were made and back to practice for driving adjustments. Qualify runs showed the more advanced guys were on their A game but some new comers were not to be slept on. Scores were close, so tandem runs were gonna be exciting. Battles were tough, no driver wanted to lose and some even went to OMT(one more time). But in the end one man was left standing. 

               CONGRATULATIONS 
                  KINTOJIN

Results are as follows:
10 - Kinto
8 - Hyoung
6 - Dave
4 - Link
2 - Mikey
1 - Ray
1 - Robert
1 - Ltl Will
1 - Rafael
1 - Freddy
1 - Cuba
1 - William
1 - Big Will
1 - Sergio
1 - Chase
 
Here are a few photos of the event. 
You can always check out more on Photobucket

Event 2 coming up this weekend. August 11,th 2012 at Midland Beach in Staten Island NY. See you there.

Pennsylvania based Driftsylvania Productions will be putting on an RC drift demo August 4th 2012 at Bring It On Car and Truck Show at UTI- (Universal Technical Institute) Campus in Exton PA. The drifting will be going on from 9-2, and admission is FREE, so grab your car and come get slidewayz. 
For more information contact: [email protected]

New Jersey's local team Toxic Drift will be hosting a drift series that will consist of 3 competitions at different locations. 
Round #1 will be held at Autoland Car Dealership on Route-22East, Springfield NJ. The competition starts at 6.
1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes. 
Entry fee is $15 for single event and $45 for series.

That's right, its time to have a battle for some bragging rights in the NY/NJ area. YankiDori will be hosting a RC drift competition at Salvation Slide on Thursday, August 16th 2012. 
Trophies will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners.

Rules will be here.
Drift Qualifying Rules
Drift Tandem Rules 

PLEASE READ
 

                  Judges have final say. 
   ANY ARGUMENTS WITH THE JUDGES WILL RESULT IN EJECTION OF COMPETITION

Single bracket elimination - due to time constraints. 
Doors open - 6:00
Sign up starts - 6:30
Track practice starts- 7:00
Sign-ups/Track Practice closes - 8:00
Comp Starts - 8:15 SHARP

Trophies and Prizes sponsored by:
YankiDori
Driftsylvania Productions
RC Drift Zone

On June 30th Local drift club - ClubLoose held their annual drift event at Englishtown NJ. The event is a two day drift event that starts early Saturday and slides into late Sunday. Many people from all around travel to this event. Toxic Drift was sighted getting sideways and giving an RC demo of how they do it 1:10 scale.
Here are a few shots of the day. You can always check out more in my Photobucket.