NZ Performance Car

NATHAN MALMO

NZPC: When did you start drifting, what was your first drift car, and who was your drifting hero back then?

Nathan: Going back a bit, I first gave drifting a go (legally) in 2014. I would have been 20-21 at the time I put together a four-door R33 Skyline. A friend and I went down to the old Meremere Dragway day hosted by a good friend Taran (Team S Club) — this track eventually taught me how to control a car! After leaving it for a while when I had a mishap with the Skyline, I purchased a NA [naturally aspirated] Silvia in 2016, which taught me so much in only two years, learning, improving, and driving it. Then, when I crashed that car down at Meremere dragstrip one

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