Race Results

As the year comes to an end for drifters, D1WA looked back to the beginnings and invited the founding President, Patrick Coetzer, to the final event of the year held at Jacks Hill. In true Christmas spirit D1WA handed over the keys to the club car to Patrick for the day as a thank-you for all the hard work and effort he put in over the years. Despite not having drifted in roughly 5 years it only took one warmup lap before he was on form and shredding the tyres, much to the delight of the many officials that scored passenger laps with him.

The drivers were smoking up the track all day with 25 drivers entered in the morning session and 20 drivers in the arvo. Needless to say, Zac from Mobile Tyre Tech was busy keeping them all super stoked with fresh rubber and of all the tyres he dealt with, no one kept him as busy as Chris Day that tore up 28 and took a record number of passengers out in his street driven 370z.

Being the last event, the focus was more on fun than competition although there was a pair of 18×10.5 wheels thanks to Showtime Accessories up for grabs for best Xmas themed car and/or driver. Carla and Ashlee decorated the club car without holding back and it was easily the best but the award was for an entered driver which left Jake Ober, Ken Worroll and Austin Edwards vying for the prize. Between the only 3 drivers that agree dressing up isn’t only for the Xmas turkey it was decided that the win and wheels went to Austin Edwards with both his Xmas themed shirt on as well as his Christmas red BMW flaunting a tree strapped to the roof.

Rodney Raffa was forgiven for not having any decorations on his BMW after a beastly effort to change his engine out twice and convert to turbo in just 4 DAYS!! Raffa gave it a red hot crack that produced only a small fire as the turbo charger was melting his plastic rocker covers, which he changed twice but without a 3rd spare had to call it a day putting in only a few, but certainly epic, runs.

Wanneroo Raceway was the place to be Sunday 15th with D1WA Drift holding their Round Two Championship Event thanks to their latest sponsor Madman Motors. It was so great to see all the drifters, some even coming from Esperance, their supporters and families that made it down to watch the latest battles take place. The young ones were happily entertained in between battle rounds playing on the playground, while the young at heart took photos with the girls from Monster Energy and gladly sampled their free merchandise. It was another fun filled day with plenty of door on door action and some battles too close that even the judges Richard Lazare, Brent Peters, Kurt Holland couldn’t split the points. D1WA used a new, fair points system so that even new drivers like cory gilpin making his competition debut and winning street class had an equal shot at the win but at the end of the day the awards were taken out by Josh Watkins in 3rd, Damien McBride in 2nd and Ethan Faithful in 1st place. D1WA holds around 15 events each year for new and old drifters alike and is a volunteer run organisation.

D1WA introduced a Brand New event, at Perth Motorplex called King of the Plex. the majority of the event was passenger friendly practice then in the arvo we moved to a fun top16 Battle format, the weather was fantastic, free drinks were flowing thanks to Monster Energy, and the event had a really cool vibe thanks to Carlas Playlist on our new Speakers

D1WA 2021 Championship we introduced a Brand New event format, and the Drivers Battled it out in some of the worst wet weather we have seen

with 21 drivers in Street class these 2 drivers managed to Win all their battles and got a shot at the Pro class top 16

Matsuri #13 we introduced Drift Games and Driftkhana to the super popular 2 day event.

Crowd Pleaser

Tom Melling

#228

Smoke King

Jesse Gray

#31

Most Improved

Jessica De Bellis

#389

With 76 drivers entered is was a great weekend at Collie Motorplex, We can’t wait for Matsuri #14