SOUTHERN FRIED SENSATION

There’s something special about the wheels touching down on Christchurch Airport’s runway. Those short, sharp bumps signify the start of a ripper of a weekend — especially if baking a few sets of Hi-Flies in the name of a few giggles with mates is in order.

It’s a trip, and a purpose, that’ll never get old, waiting until damn near the middle of the year — Queen’s Birthday weekend — to head down for total immersion in the South Island drift scene. No, make that the South Island grassroots drift scene — that one noun