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Rookie John Wagner got into drifting in 2002. He was into autocross and a friend that he autocrossed with showed him some Option videos and Initial D. He attended the first Hyperfest in June 2002 as a spectator. From that point on he knew he needed to drift. He still had no RWD car so had to wait a bit until he finally got to try it. Eventually, he started borrowing his friend's 240sx and practiced drifting with him in empty parking lots. He finally got to drift in his first contest in May 2003 at Beaverun held by DG Trials. He had no idea how to drift on a track because all he ever practiced was drifting in a parking lot. Matt Petty gave him his first crash course and taught him a couple different ways to initiate the drift. He ended up taking third in the contest thanks to Matt.

The first car he ever tried to drift was jis 1985 S12 Nissan 200sx that he picked up in late 2002. He tried to drift it for a couple months and then realized that it wasn't good to drift. He still has it and drives it everyday as his daily driver. When it snows it gets to drift again. It was so hard to drift since it was completely stock, with no LSD, worn out everything and had no e-brake. He had to go really fast and clutch kick, and then hope for the best. Sometimes he drifted, sometimes he wouldn't.

He says he finds it challenging to drift another person's car or to drift on many different brands and sizes of tires. He says that his biggest influences are people that like to drift fast, getting close to stuff while doing it and people that have style to their drift. To name some of the people who influence him, Vaughn Gittin Jr, Matt Martin, James Evans, Fedor Andreev, Tadashi Ikegami, Peter Chhuom, Chris Forsberg, Rhys Millen, Nate Backner and Marc Rozzo.

Future modifications would include upgrading his suspension with real coilovers, getting rid of the HICAS rear subframe and installing adjustable rear suspension components, upgrading the turbo and building up the motor a bit. After he gets the car performing like he wants, he says he would also like to add an Origin bodykit and a new paint job. It would also be nice to have a steady flow of fresh tires to destroy he explains. He plans to keep drifting for years to come he says. Drifting is only going to get bigger and bigger and he compares the growth of drifting to the growth of skateboarding.



 
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