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Highlights from round 1 of The British Drift Championship at Lydden Hill is now live!

We feature in a few places including two of Nick Stathams battles! Look for our logo on his white R33 Skyline!

Isn't it great when everything falls into place? (There is a bit of a story to this one!)

So there I was, standing at the bus stop at about half 2pm, after work waiting for the bus (which was late as usual). I looked up to see 6 Mustangs drive past, then another 6, then more, some more after that. I was thinking to myself 'where are they going!' I was tempted to try and stop one to see where they were going, but didn't fancy the fact I might cause a crash as the road was quite busy....

Leeds Castle opened its grounds to the rumble of Supercars for the first ever Supercar Siege event! Supercar Siege has been created as a charity event to raise money for the Royal Navy & Royal Marines Childrens Fund.

There were some awesome cars on show including this quad turbo'd Lambo! 

My personal favourite of the day was the GT40.

As the event was set at Leeds Castle it made an ideal family day out. There was plenty to see and do besides just...

An early start can only mean an interesting day ahead!

This time its a drift day at Snetterton race circuit run by MSV Track days and hosted by Snetterton drift days with Pete Bell. This would be my first time attending Snetterton, and was therefore looking forward to seeing the track and having a new location to have a bit of a wander around.

Quick fill up just short of the track.

There were only 16 cars booked in for the day, unlimited seat time can only be a good...

Not too sure where these guys have suddenly appeared from but Ill Motive have put together this video from King of the Ring - The First Chapter.

Really liking the video. Keep an eye out for more from Ill Motive as we think there is lots more good stuff to come from them!

Also check out our picture gallery from King of the Ring HERE

Project Touge have released this awesome video compilation showing the highlights from round one of The British Drift Championship at Lydden Hill Race Circuit. Some of our Sponsored drivers even made the final edit!

After an awesome weekend at Lydden Hill Race Circuit for Round 1 of The British Drift Championship we have been sent this video by Grant Buchanan.

The video shows some of the action including in car footage of Steve 'Baggsy' Biagionis crash. Luckily he was ok and walked away with no injuries.

British Drift Championship 2013 Steve 'Baggsy' Biagioni Crash and Roll Over from Grant Buchanan

Oliver Silcock is a new face to the 2013 British Drift Championship and one of our sponsored drivers for this season.

We took some time out to have a chat with Olly and find out a bit more about the man behind the smoke.

This is what Olly had to say........

I started drifting regularly during early 2011 and got instantly hooked! I'd never driven a rear wheel drive car before I got the PS13 so it was quite a steep learning curve. Everything I'd learnt on track days in my...

We are currently running a group buy on Walbo fuel pumps. The group buy covers the full range including the extreme 450LPH in tank pump compatible with E85!

The group buy price gives up to a massive 35% off retail prices. For example, a 255LPH fuel pump for a Nissan Skyline is only £61.40 on the group buy.

To qualifiy we are looking to get 20 confirmed orders by the end of April. We are advertising the group buy on the website, our Facebook page and across several forums...

In the car world Mazda are best known for the rotary engine. Although the engine in this picture is for power boats and not designed for cars, the engineering that has gone into this 12rotor engine is definitely something to be admired.

Made by Smith Power this R12 rotary engine weighs in at around 375kg, features 3 x 4 rotor chambers in a unique configuration. The R12 will rev to 8,500 - 9,000rpm and Smith Power claim the 960 cubic inch (15.7 Litre!) will produce 1440bhp...

Auto Extreme are pleased to announce we are now dealers of Summit Racing Equiptment! The product range includes high quality strut braces, chassis braces, fender braces and much more. Parts are available for most makes and model of car and the full lineup will be added to the website shortly.

Auto Extreme have just lauched the 6Boost UK website! 6Boost manifolds are one of the best and most sought after high performance turbo manifolds available. They have been used on some SERIOUSLY high powered drag cars including a few record breakers!

They are built with one thing in mind and that is maximum performance! 6Boost manifolds come with a lifetime warranty against cracking and manufacturing defects. For more information take a look at the 6Boost UK website at

Recently while at a local rolling road day we were approached by a photograher and asked if he could do a shoot of our demo car. A few weeks later we arranged a place and the following pictures were a few shots taken on the day.

The for full collection and more pictures please check out the following link for the full article at Tom Giddens site Wide Boy – The Auto Extreme R33 Skyline

After being away from our TV screens for almost a year (not including the endless reruns on Dave) the TOP Gear team return for a new series of the popular motoring show! Series 19 begins tonight at 20:00 on BBC2 tonight. Check out the following trailer for an idea of whats to come!

Check out this awesome edit from Lydden Hill featuring one of our customers in his Scorpion Motorsport 500bhp 1JZ S14a. Massive thanks to Bandit/Gabor for his editing skills!

Practice day at Lydden Hill with Auto Extreme / Bandit / Scorpion Motorsport.