The Japfest event will be moving to Silverstone, the home of British Motorsport in April for the 1st Event of the year.

• Europe’s biggest celebration of Japanese cars moves to legendary new venue
• Japfest to be held at Silverstone, the iconic home of British Motor Sport
• Additional new Japfest event also announced for 2016

Britain’s biggest celebration of Japanese car culture is moving to an iconic new home. Japfest, which takes place on April 24^th, 2016, is moving to Silverstone, the home of British Motor Sport, after reaching capacity at its previous venue with over 16,000 attendees and 3,500 cars on display or on the circuit.

“Japfest keeps growing," said event manager Kat Chappell. “We knew that if we wanted to make Japfest bigger and better than ever, then we needed to move it to a larger location with more facilities, and where better could it go than to the UK’s most iconic race circuit, Silverstone?"

The new, more central, venue is a significant part of Japfest’s broader expansion, as the most firmly established series of Japanese car events in the UK. In 2016, Japfest Rock (the new name for Japfest 2) returns to Rockingham Motor Speedway on June 26^th, while a brand new, third Japfest event will also be added to the calendar.

Taking place at the Hop Farm near Paddock Wood, Kent, on September 11^th, Japfest Motorsport Heroes will be a special event celebrating some of the most iconic and significant Japanese cars from the world of motor sport, along with their roadgoing equivalents.

For club members wishing to visit all three of the events, Japfest has put together a Club Early Bird package, with access to them all for just £48 per person, including free camping at Japfest Rock and Motorsport Heroes,  plus a discount on track time at Japfest. Tickets for Japfest are on sale now via the official website atwww.japfest.co.uk

Meanwhile, Japfest promises to be the biggest and best of its kind, a thrilling live event featuring scores of the best Japanese cars in the UK and from across Europe.

Thousands of display cars representing the UK’s major Japanese car clubs will fill the vast Silverstone site and the largest trade and exhibition area of its type will take over the paddock, while there will be a series of all-day track action, including the much anticipated return of the Drift Kings epic winner takes all showdown.

Full details of the show, the cars and the various activities will be announced nearer the date, on the event website, or via the official Facebook page and Twitter feeds.

Goodwood festival of Speed welcomes a new category for 2015, Drifting, with some of the world's best.

For the first time in Goodwood Festival of Speed history, the 2015 event will feature a special category dedicated to the art of drifting on June 25-28 with a number of the discipline’s biggest names lined up to take part.

Red Bull Athlete ‘Mad’ Mike Whiddett and Monster Energy Athlete Ken Block, who attends with Ford, are two of the best-known exponents of drifting, and both will return to thrill the sell-out crowds on all three days of live motor sport action in the ‘Catch my Drift?’ category.

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New Zealander ‘Mad’ Mike’s Flat-Out and Fearless driving at last year’s event earned him the ‘Spirit of the Festival’ award and his style embodies the theme of the 2015 event, at which he again brings his sensational Mazda RX-7 ready for more tyre-smoking action.

YouTube phenomenon Block, whose stunning Gymkhana videos have achieved more than 300million views online, brings his incredible 850bhp Ford Mustang, dubbed the ‘Hoonicorn’, and will be joined by another Monster Athlete, Festival of Speed debutant Buttsy Butler, and his Toyota Soarer.

Goodwood can now announce that EXTREME Drift Allstars, the leading live action drift brand, will bring four supremely-talented drivers to the Festival of Speed.

James Deane, last year’s EXTREME Drift Allstars European Champion, who brings his Falken Motorsports Nissan 200SX S14 to Goodwood’s iconic 1.16-mile Hillclimb. Deane made history in 2014 by setting a new world record for a continuous twin-vehicle drift lasting an astonishing 17.72 miles.

The Irishman will be joined by the man he beat to last year’s European crown, Poland’s Piotr Wiecek, who brings his 1000bhp Budmat R34 Skyline to the UK and will look to show the kind of form that carried him to the 2014 Polish national title.

Norway’s top drifting star, Joachim Waargaard, will give his eagerly-anticipated BMW M4 its first outing in public at Goodwood while Australian Champion Luke Fink will drive his world-famous LBP PS13 V8.

Add in another Polish ace, Kuba Przygonski, driving a Toyota GT86, plus a dedicated area for the cars within the newly-expanded F1 Paddock presented by Sky Sports F1, and a sensational display of flat-out and fearless driving is guaranteed.