During the Drift Office demo at Pacific Raceways on Friday I caught a ride with Bobby Rice in his nicely prepped AE86. As you can see in the pics, this car looks a lot cleaner than most drift cars, though Bobby doesn’t baby the thing. He has about $15,000 invested in it so far, and has gotten a lot of help from Bob and the rest of the crew at Drift Office. I got some crummy in-car video of my ride–going up and coming back down. As you can see we spun out both times, which was pretty hilarious. Here’s another video I shot earlier in the afternoon of Bobby ripping through the s curves. Thanks for the ride, Bobby! I have a bunch more pics of Bobby’s AE86 after the jump.

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On Friday, Rob, Sean and I bounced a little early, and went down to Pacific Raceways for a drifting exhibition. Bob from Drift Office and the Raceway’s Marketing Manager, Tracie Brandenburg, organized the event, which is set to become a series this summer. Some of the Northwest’s best amateur talent was on hand to tear up the track, and of course, there were a bunch of dope rides on hand. Matt Gehr and Bobby Rice both drove ’86 AE86s,  Earl Smith was behind the wheel of a ’90 Mazda RX-7—the back end was converted to a pick-up bed—and Victor Moore and Roland Gallagher each piloted wicked ’89 Nissan 240SX Coupes. We’ll have a bunch of photos posted in the events section tomorrow, and some professionally shot video posted in the next couple of weeks. For now, check out pics of all the cars after the jump. What did you do this weekend?