After tricky weather made most of practice a waste, a tough draw in the top 32 and a super competitive battle that saw him lose to the eventual event winner Tommy Lemaire, Geoff Donati is pleased overall with his and his team’s performance at FD Prospec round 1 in Atlanta.

In recent seasons, a Hyundai Genesis, an uncommon sight at drift events, has factored into the ranks. Dayton Boy JP Hunnicutt pilots that 2JZ-swapped piece of Korean engineering. His history with drifting and the story of how he came around to whipping the Genesis is an interesting one!

I sat down with him to talk through his drifting philosophy, how the Dayton Boys came to be and what his favorite memories from 9 seasons of drifting have been: