DMCC Round 3

The third round of the Castrol Drift Mania Canadian Championship took place this weekend in Quebec city and what an event it was. In front of thousands of spectators the drivers laid down their rubber on the smoke filled track in a terrific display of talented driving at its best. Check out our full coverage of the event. View photos

DMCC Round 1

The first round of the Castrol Drift Mania Canadian Championship finished Sunday at the Autodrome de Montmagny just outside of Quebec city. The weather did not cooperate very much but the spectators still came out in full force as these events are rain or shine. Montrealer Marco Santos took home the victory with Fred Girard and Carl Nadeau finishing second and third, respectively. The full results were as follows:

1: Marco Santos

2: Fred Girard

3: Carl Nadeau

4: Hideki Nishimura

5: Haig

6: Steph Scardocchio

7: Ross Petty

8: Vlad Crown

9: Babu

10: J-F Chiasson

11: Marc-Ander Duquette

12: Mark Tschritter

13: Tania Bourbonnais

14: Kevin Grenier

15: Alex Lee

16: Calvin Wan

Drifting is a high-skill, high-powered motorsport that calls for drivers to control a car while it slides sideways at high speed through a marked course. It is similar to rally racing, but is done on a closed course and judged on execution and style rather than who finishes the course fastest. Drifting takes all the thrilling moments of traditional motorsports and packs it together into non-stop competition.

Drifting pros finesse their cars into spectacular powerslides around a series of corners of a set course as powerful engines roar and the tires bellow smoke. The driver controls engine power, shifts gears and feathers the brake pedal, while at the same time spinning the steering wheel in a precise fashion from left to right linking corners with pinpoint accuracy. The driver is controlling and maneuvering the car beyond the limits of the tires’ traction.

Check out MontrealRacing.com’s full coverage of the event in our gallery. A big thank you to Filip Bertrand for covering the event.

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