Tommy Chen founded SpeedTrial USA, a group that hosted road racing events in the 90s.  With his friends, he was able to get Option Video with Keiichi Tsuchiya, Nomuken, and Daijiro Inada to come host the very first drifting competition on US soil in 1996.  In '99, Tommy hosted the first sanctioned US drifting event under the guise of "car control" run groups.  In 2002, Tommy made history again when he hosted an event with icons of the AE86 drift world Hiroshi Takahashi and Shinji Minowa.  

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