JES735

Hello, my name is Jan-Eric Seeber and I’m a competitive drifter. My main focus is competing on international level and I am working on my goal to be a participant in the Drift Masters European Championship in 2023/24.

I was hugely influenced by my childhood. Sitting in my Recaro baby seat with my plushie stuck into the rollcage above me.
I have done a small amount of karting as a kid but haven’t had the opportunity to compete. But this is what I wanted to do!
So, I’ve been interested in cars and cars going sideways ever since, when I discovered tandem/battle drifting it completely fascinated me. Drifting however is a motorsport that’s comparably still quite accessible. As it happened, my first car had to have rear wheel drive, a Nissan 350Z to be exact. With this car I had the opportunity of getting access to a closed off space, where I was able to explore drifting for myself. Safe to say, I didn’t leave my car the whole day, except for fueling up, because I was absolutely hooked! Then I proceeded to drive some more events in my street car – but before long a dedicated drifter was needed! We stuck with Nissan Z-cars and got ourselves a crashed 370Z which we repaired and modified for drifting.
Since then I’ve been regularly driving drift taxi at the Nürburgring driftday to hone my skills and started giving courses.
Next step was to enter the Drift.de German Drift competition in which I’ve achieved to become champion in the class for solo runs and in the following year, vice champion for the battle class. This also led to different engagements, for example at the Essen Motor Show doing show drives and exhibitions. Meanwhile having the wish to compete on a higher level, go for Nürburgring Drift Cup and for international Competitions in Europe, we bought Calle Linnarssons 370Z in Sweden and gave that car an overhaul together with DBM Engineering in Netherlands, to ready it for today’s competitions. To still be able to drive, expand my skills and keep drifting alive, we started the project “DTM Driftshow” together with German Drift-Legend Harald Müller.

Although our main focus still is competing on international level as soon as possible. And still we’re working hard together on our goal to be a participant in the Drift Masters European Championship in 2023/24.