Bergenholtz Racing and Enkei Wheels established a marketing partnership for the 2010 Formula Drift race season. With the latest announcement of Joon Maeng as the new Official driver, Bergenholtz Racing is also implementing the all new light weight Enkei PF01 to its Mazda RX8. The Enkei PF01 is designed to be an ultra-light weight wheel. For more sizing and more info on the new ENKEI PF01, visit http://enkei.com/pf01.html

“It is quite an honor to be working with Enkei Wheels. Both Bergenholtz Racing and Enkei Wheels have been known for performance and racing. It is a perfect partnership. We are extremely excited to be working with a great company.”

-Ron Bergenholtz Team Manager of Bergenholtz Racing.

“Enkei wheels are engineered to the highest degree to deliver the best in performance. Simply mounting up the PF01’s to the NITTO NT05’s will increase the agility and acceleration of the Mazda RX8 immediately. It’s like having horsepower and and a suspension upgrade built into a wheel! I can’t wait to try them on track. The Mazda RX8 is going to do some amazing things with the Enkei PF01’s.”

-Joon Maeng pilot of the Bergenholtz Racing/Nitto Mazda RX8.

Stay tuned for images of the new Bergenholtz Racing RX8!

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Today at the Formula DRIFT office Bergenholtz Racing announced that Joon Maeng will be piloting the Bergenholtz Racing Nitto / Mazda RX-8 for the 2010 season.

“It’s an honor to be here and I’m looking forward to the 2010 season running with Bergenholtz Racing,” said Joon Maeng, driver of the Bergenholtz Racing Mazda RX-8. “Words can not describe the gratitude in my…” Read the entire post here on the Formula Drift blog.

Also spotted on SpeedHunters.com!

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Scion TC with Enkei RPF1 Light-Weight Racing Series wheels.

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Read the article here
http://www.0-60mag.com/online/?p=23311

More info on the New PF01 Light-Weight Racing Series wheel here.

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I was up in freezing Fukushima-ken yesterday, more specifically Ebisu Circuit, to shoot a few nice cars for all of you avid Speedhunters.com readers. Since I still feel rather let down by the fact that there was no real big S-chassis event at the beginning of this month, I thought I’d make up the lack of interesting Silvia’s from Japan by bringing you a few shots of a rather special machine. -Dino Dalle Carbonare

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Enkei RPF1s!

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^Enkei RC-T4 Competition Wheel click here for more info!

This was probably the biggest surprise at the Super Lap Battle last week, the Koyama Racing Labo Evo X built in collaboration with Team Orange. Anyone familiar with the world of JDM tuning will have no doubt have heard the name Koyama, he is of course the man behind most of the projects that JUN has built over the last two decades. Earlier this year however he decided it was time to move on, time for a change and joined the guys at Team Orange up in Nihonmatsu, the home of Ebisu circuit. more on speedhunters.com

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mitsubishi colt galant 00

Did you know Enkei has been making aluminum wheels since 1967? Here’s a 1974 Mitsubishi Galant found on the Japanese Nostalgic Car forums. It’s rolling on vintage Enkei Apache wheels and a stunning reminder of what the original Japanese tuner scene looked like.

Back then, Mitsubishi hadn’t set up shop in the US yet, but was looking for ways to enter the North American market. Meanwhile, the Big Three had been caught with their pants down when the 1973 Oil Crisis struck. Customers were clamoring for small, fuel-efficient cars but they had none to offer.

So Chrysler and Mitsubishi struck up a deal and sold this car here as the Dodge Colt. To read more about this car, check out this thread –>click here.

–Ben Hsu
http://JapaneseNostalgicCar.com

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This Mini is part of the Mini/Yokohama Ride & Drive program. The wheels on the Mini Cooper are the Enkei RPF1TypeII (2). Click here For more info on the Ride & Drive program. Thank you Eddie for the pics!
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From Meyer Motorsports
Meyer Motorsports teamed with PartsGroup.com to run the NASA South-East 9 hour Enduro at the high speed 2.5 mile Road Atlanta race course. Driving the PartsGroup.com Mazda RX-8 were drivers Tom Neel, Jay Andrew and Eric Meyer. Each driver ran 3 stints to take the car to the NASA E1 class win.

“Blending two teams without experience working together and pulling off a class win is a big deal” says Meyer Motorsports team owner Eric Meyer. “Both teams quickly figured out how to execute the various duties needed to execute a fast-paced, error-free, multi pit stop, numerous driver change strategy”. For 9 hours the newly partnered teams ran the #57 rotary powered 6 speed Mazda hard and fast to catch and then pull away from the various class leaders. Except for a broken shock, the car performed flawlessly.

Driver Jay Andrew: “I was really impressed with how much life was left in the brakes after 9 hours and then Tom ran the car the next day with at least 50% of the DTC-60 front pad left. Amazing pad wear given the high temperatures the brakes saw in Turn 10. No drama at all”.

Thanks to sponsors:

Hawk Brakes: www.hawkperformance.com
Mazda: www.mazdaspeeddevelopment.com
Kumho Tires: www.kumhousa.com
Lucas OIl: www.lucasoil.com
Chase Cam: www.chasecam.com (watch for YouTube Video soon)
Enkei Wheels: www.enkei.com
The Parts Group: www.partsgroup.com
Twin Vision Studios: www.twinvision.com

9 Hour Crew:

Brian Boardman, Eric Arms, Clay Pierce, Mark Canup, Paul King, Chris Whitworth, Bill Stewart, and Rusty Towers

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