This is a guest post by Nico Castronuevo.

This last Saturday around 30 of the Pacific Northwest’s best drift drivers put on a show for the fans at the 2nd annual Bigger Foot Bash/Team Tandem Competition at Pacific Raceways. Bigger Foot Bash marked the last drift event of the year at PGP and was one of the best of the season. From the weather to the people everything was perfect and how every drift event should be.

The day consisted of fast entries, massive angle, and door to door tandems. The drivers really showed what the Pacific Northwest had to offer.

Coming out of Portland, Formula Drift driver Kyle Pollard took the time out of his pro schedule to participate in the event. Unfortunately his differential blew during practice and he was unable to compete.

After a few hours of hot lapping the Team tandem competition started.

The teams were judged on style, angle, and how synchronized they were with each other.

At the end of the day Canadian based team Drift Union showed why they were the reigning champions and won the Team Tandem Competition for the 2nd time in a row.

This event was a great way to end the season and just makes me that much more excited for next season.

This is a guest post. Photos and text by Les Roach.

Xtreme Drift Circuit turned out to be a nice surprise, the thing is I was terribly afraid that XDC was going to be copy cat of Formula Drift… which was not something I was looking forward to. While both events are similar they are two completely different animals. XDC seemed to bring some up and coming fresh talent to PNW that hasn’t been seen before. It was hosted in Pacific Grad Prix track next to Pacific International Raceway in Kent. The guys from Non Stop Tuning are coming all the way up from as far as Florida, man these guys can really tear it up on the track. NST is a shop located in the heart of Texas that not only does their own R&D for products they build, but also sell a number of products that have been successful on their drift cars. KSport set up booth at the PGP track as well, not to mention brought the KSport drift team to back up their products as well.

XDC was pretty simple on how the inner workings came were. Basically all the drivers did runs to qualify for the Top 16, from there they did a tandem style drift and ran eliminations to see who was the TOP driver. Many of the talented drivers of the NW made the top 16, which was to be expected most of them have spent many, many long days out on this tight technical track First place landed in the hands of skilled driver Nate Hamiliton with Walker Wilkerson following up in second place. The rest of the results will follow shortly.

When next year comes around make sure to make it out the XDC for some great vendors, beautiful models, and skilled drivers. XDC will be an event you will NOT want to miss.

It’s that time of year again out in Oregon. The Deuces Wild Poker and Show N’ Shine has been going on for the past few years now. I personally, have never had the chance to make it out (it’s on the list) to one of their events due to my schedule; however, they are typically very well attended (currently 60 confirmed on their event listing). You can expect to see some highly modified cars if you plan to head out to Cobb Surgeline Tuning in Tigard, Oregon this Sunday August 14th. You can find a Facebook Event listing here with the full details of where to go and when. The great thing about this event is that all the proceeds go to the American Cancer Society.

If you missed Formula Drift this year, there’s always Xtreme Drift Circuit on August 13th, 2011 at PGP Motorsports Park, where you are guaranteed to see carnage and some of the top Northwest Drift drivers compete head to head. You can find more information at XtremeDriftCircuit.com.

I would like to again, thank Emotive Image for allowing me to borrow some gear and My Life at Speed for allowing me to piggy back on their site for media credentials.