Widely regarded as one of the world’s finest road courses, Road Atlanta hosts all types of racing. It’s been home to the Petit Le Mans since 1998, it was part of the Can-Am series when that was a thing, and has hosted everything from Indy Lights and the NASCAR Busch Series to AMA Superbikes. But late last month, it played host to another kind of event.
That event was Gridlife South, a weekend-long celebration of drifting. The festival features concerts at night and racing action during the day, bringing out some of the biggest names in the American drift scene, including Vaughn Gittin Jr, Chris Forsberg, Ryan Tuerck… and, from the look of it, dozens of GoPro cameras and caseloads of energy drink.
It looks like a heck of a good time, and fortunately Donut Media was there to capture the action and splice the best of it into this two-minute clip. “This is what happens when you throw an all-weekend party at a race track,” reads the description. If it looks like a party you’re sorry to have missed, there’s another right around the corner, slated to hit Gingerman Raceway in southwestern Michigan next month.