2009 in Review

2009 will be remembered as the year the Northwest burst onto the national drift scene with Evergreen Drift drivers taking home ProAm podium results from Vegas to Irwindale.

Lets take stock of what the Evergreen Drift crew has accomplished for 2009.

Evergreen Drift Championship

The Evergreen Drift Season Championship was won by Peter Funatake. This four round championship pitted all the best Northwest drivers against each other. Peter steadily improved throughout the season starting with a top 16 finish in Round 1, a top 8 finish in Round 2, 3rd place for Round 3, and 1st place for Round 4. This was the right combination to win the championship by 23 points.

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Merry Christmas from Evergreen Drift

The Evergreen Drift crew wishes everyone happy holidays and a merry and safe Christmas.

Tire smoke is better than snow. . .

Abbitt makes Wrecked top 10 video list

Abbitt Wilkerson has had a very productive year attending all the Evergreen Drift events plus some of the other FD and ProAm rounds and turning out quality video edits for each one. This is only Abbitt’s second year doing drift videos as he is just 17!

You can view his portfolio on his Vimeo channel - http://www.vimeo.com/abbittwilkerson

WreckedMagazine.com has recently released their top 10 drift videos of the year list.

The videos were chosen “based upon views, buzz, links, quality of production, and entertainment.”

Abbitt’s 2009 Formula Drift Evergreen Speedway round video came in 9th on a list populated with several professionally produced big budget videos.

The film features equal parts clips of the FD cars as well as scenes from the Evergreen Drift ProAm event with Evergreen Drift local drivers.

Join us in congratulating Abbitt on a fabulous job by watching his award winning video.

AW Films Takes on Formula D Seattle

We can’t wait so see what this kid does in 2010!

BIO > Mark Couts on Motor Mavens

Our friends at Motor Mavens have a great Bio on long time Evergreen Drift driver Mark Couts.

In the past Mark has had the usual assortment of S chassis cars but now is rolling a E36 BMW.

We look forward to seeing this beautiful car mix it up in tandem mayhem come next season.

Click over to Motor Mavens to read the full bio -

Motor Mavens Mark Couts Bio

Evergreen Drift Channel on Vimeo

Evergreen Drift not only has talented drivers, we have a bunch of talented media guys that crank out the top quality videos after every event.

Guys like -
Abbitt Wilkerson
Running:Projects
Brad Valdez
Slideline Northwest
Jon Fromm

These guys spend hours filming and editing so everyone can enjoy some top notch videos. Their effort and dedication to the sport is every bit as involved and important as the drivers and volunteers.

In order to showcase their talent and make a one stop shop to see all the best Evergreen Drift videos we set up an official Evergreen Drift channel on Vimeo.

There are currently over 40 videos spanning the last 3 seasons to keep you busy.

Hit up the Channel @ http://vimeo.com/channels/evergreendrift and be sure to subscribe!

YouDrift.Net ProAm Nats Video

Check out what looks to be the last of the ProAm Nationals videos. This one is from the folks over at YouDrift.net.

They included Ian Fournier’s decisive runs. Wait to the end to see Ian pimping his sponsors and supporters like a true pro.

Speedhunters SDCOTY Award - Vote Northwest!

The good folks over at Speedhunters are gathering votes for their end of the year awards.

Looking at the “STREET DRIFT CAR OF THE YEAR” category list of nominees I found a couple of Northwest familiar faces.

The ethos of the Street Drift Car of The Year is “cars which carry a torch for true drift style and true drift culture. These machines should still be street legal(ish) in spirit and have oodles of visual presence.”

As of this moment Nikolay has a ton of votes and Ian and Earl have a few.

Hop on over to the Speedhunters thread to see the rest of the contestants and put in your vote in the comments section.

Shreeveco 2009 Wrapup DVD

“I decided to put together a little DVD, so all the year’s videos can be seen from the comfort of your couch. Due to budget restraints, there will be a very limited run of DVD’s, so get ‘em while they’re hot!

These will be $12 a piece, including shipping. Please send payment by way of Paypal to Shreeveco@Hotmail.com

All proceeds will go toward new equipment to produce better videos!

Thanks for all your support!

This will now be a two DVD set. It turns out the company I’m going through doesn’t do dual layer DVD’s in such small quantities. It’s looking like I’ll end up paying twice as much as originally planned and get half the product because all the videos won’t fit on one DVD. Lame. Based on this, I’m going to have to make the $12 price only good until the end of the year. After that, I’ll have to raise the price a bit if there’s still interest.

Again, thanks guys.”

- Justin Shreeve - Justin Shreeve Films -

// Help a brother out so we can enjoy even better videos from Justin in 2010.

Dead Pirate Video - All Guns Blazing ProAm

Ross Fairfield of Dead Pirate Production has released his four minute epic heavy metal tribute to the destruction and power drifting from the ProAm National Championship event.

The video opens with a bang showing the heavy hits from the event including Victor’s shunt at 0:07 and Nikolay’s tail slide at 0:15.

Max out the volume and let the video assault you full throttle.