Category: Drifting

The Day I Became a Stunt Driver

The…. one day I got weirdly lucky and landed a stunt driving gig because I wouldn’t let the company’s guy drive my car. Yes, it’s a technicality but dammit I’m the guy driving in a commercial!

I was at Utah Motorsports Campus showing the worker ladies how TopDrift works and they let told me someone was looking for a nice car to film while drifting. There is a drift club in Salt Lake City but I guess their cars were too beat up for prime time.

The client turned out to be Xinsurance, a company who claims they will insure anything. To make the point clear, they show all kinds of extreme sports and the voice over keeps saying “THIS is covered, THIS is covered” etc. The video shoot at UMC was two hours and I was in the commercial for a total of less than two seconds but I’m not complaining. This is the commercial that aired on Monday night football:

Needless to say I was pretty stoked when this came out. I was certain it’s only a matter of time before big brands come knocking and want to pay big bucks for my driving skills. They haven’t yet, but any day now…..

Here’s more footage from the shoot. Hard to be satisfied with .75 seconds of drift footage when you spent two hours thrashing your car around.

TopDrift’s first event in Utah!

Are you a drifter? Do you meander from town to town looking for your next meal or grift? Do you mumble barely audible nonsense as you rummage through people’s trash? Then TopDrift is PERFECT for you!

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Every guy out there thinks he’s the best driver in the world. Or, at least could be if he just had the right shot, coaching, budget, etc. I’d also like to argue that drifting is indeed the universal language. Everyone loves sliding a car around in a snowy parking lot. Everyone has a dream car. But what do you really want to do in that dream car? Compete for fastest lap at Laguna Seca? Win a glorious race against top competition and against all odds? I’d argue nay.

What people want more than anything is to burn rubber in a controlled slide. All over the world, all cultures want this more than anything. To the world’s humans I present: TopDrift.net

TopDrift allows everyone to enjoy the thrill of drifting in a controlled, safe environment with an added twist of competition and fun.

Normally formula drift is scored like figure skating – very qualitative and based on opinion. Winners smile big while losers cry foul. Not with TopDrift. We have objective telemetry equipment measuring your drift angle so we know exactly how many points you scored. And how many you didn’t because of a spin. Our first event is July 5, 2019 at Utah Motorsports Campus. Come on out and enjoy!