Destination: Greece
Team Orange
Tandems in Greece!
Tandem drift master Kumakubo recently had an orange R33 Skyline built with all Blitz performance parts, so that his friend, D1's famous Nomuken, could join Team Orange to do drifting demos outside of Japan. Shortly after, the organizers of the Athens Tuning Show arranged for Team Orange to come out to Greece to have them perform tandem drift demos, using Kumakubo and Tanaka's famous D1 S15 Silvias, and the new pair of orange R33 Skylines, driven by Nomuken and Team Orange's youngest member, Naoto Suenaga. Together, the four drivers performed precisely choreographed tandem drift demos at Greece's Megara Circuit during the Power 100 Speed Festival.
A few days after the Power 100 Speed Festival, Team Orange held a drifting school in Greece, giving the top Greek drifters tips on how to improve their car control and entry speeds. We saw several S13s (in Greece they're called 200SXs and they come with SR20s), but AE86s were a very rare sight. We did, however, get to see some super cool vintage Mark 1 Ford Escorts out there tearing up the track!
Hot weather and hot chicks!
Aside from all the vintage rally cars, grilled lamb and ancient architecture, I was trippin on all the hot women in Greece. They all looked like they just stepped off the pages of Maxim magazine! Especially at Super Paradise, a topless beach on the Greek isle of Mykonos, one of Europe's top party destinations. Sorry, but you'll have to check superstreetonline.com for those pics! But here is a photo I shot of our cute waitress at the Mall in Athens. Not bad for a compact point and shoot camera!
Can't believe drifting brought me to the Acropolis!
Me and Team Orange's Kazuhiro Tanaka in front of the Parthenon at the Acropolis. That place is pretty amazing, towering over all of Athens. This is the place where the ancient Greeks invented stuff like the first hospitals, theaters and democracy. Nothing major.