MAXIMUM ATTACK
The name C’s Garage has been synonymous with drifting not only here in New Zealand but around the world for the past decade. Brothers Adam and Joel Hedges, along with a small clique of friends, have been at the forefront of local drifting, injecting style and excitement through their car builds, and demonstrating driving techniques inspired by what they have witnessed first-hand driving at tracks like Meihan Sportsland in Japan.
We’ve seen the boys evolve, from running 18s and big BN kits that kiss the pavement and blow up the Internet, to their comp-style cars on the cover of NZPC issue 205, to running a successful drift shop engineering parts sold all over the world. They tried the grassroots thing, and they tried the competitive side of the sport before becoming somewhat disillusioned with that and reverting to doing it simply for fun. Throughout all of that one thing has remained constant and that’s the driving — it’s always been about driving as fast, aggressively, and excitingly as possible.
Then around two years ago, they got a little lost with the direction they were taking.
Joel recalls, “We were kind of lost at the time with set-ups and what to do next with our cars and driving.”
Teaming up with a few close friends to form D*Club, they spawned the idea of creating an event and bringing one of their favourite drivers down to New Zealand: Naoki Nakamura, a man widely regarded as one of the best drifters on the planet. Little did they know at the time that the decision would be the genesis for change, and alter the course of all their
