STEVE ‘BAGGSY’ BAGGIO NI What initially drew you to drifting and what was the appeal? From the offset it was the sheer factor of the feeling of drifting. I had previously been involved in circuit racing but drifting is so much more of a buzz, there are no limits, you push as hard and as fast as you can. I can’t even describe what it feels like – it takes you into another world and you just don’t want it to stop. Why did you choose a Subaru Impreza as a drift car when it is inherently a 4WD car? On reflection would you have done anything differently? We chose an Impreza because we wanted to be different really. When we decided to build a new car for 2010 we all sat down and decided we wanted a challenge, we wanted to bring a new car and new people into the drifting community. I like to be unique and so we decided to build one from scratch, learn the hard way what things worked and what things didn’t so that if people wanted to build one in the future we can say this is the way to approach it - tried and tested. I don’t think I would do anything differently perhaps just some things sooner because we tried lots of different things and “Baggsy wasted 2 years of his life (joke)” but finally here we are. TRUE GRIP 26
Mauro Carlo broke the world drift record on Sunday; achieving 2,308 metres of continuous drift, have you ever been tempted to attempt anything similar? This is something we will look at in the future; we’ll certainly be keeping an eye on things so watch this space! To be honest a continual drift is not much of a challenge as you are purely going round in a circle and the record will get to a point where it can no longer be
Land Rover’s to a website for pre 1970’s Mini’s, absolutely everyone involved with cars and into cars. We’ve been told that over 1 million people had heard about the theft within the first 24 hours. I’d like to say a massive thank you to everyone involved, from the people who tagged photos and put posts up on their forums to the guys who actually got into their cars and went out searching. I obviously didn’t realize just how big it had got at
“ It wasn’t until I was sat into my car on the Sunday with my laptop that I realized the enormity of it all...” broken because the tyres will give out, it won’t be a record on how far you can drift but how long you can get your tyres to last. “Actually you can put this as an official Baggsy statement; the world’s longest sideways jump in a drift car would be cool!” With regard to the theft at Santa Pod last week, what were your feelings regarding the enormous response from the motoring community/Facebook/Twitter? Overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming, we couldn’t have asked for any more support from so many different car cultures – from