Vaughn Gittin Jr. didn’t have the 2015 Formula Drift season he was hoping for, especially after a crash in Texas forced him to skip out on the final event. It’s already almost 2016 though, which means a new racing season, and a new race car are right around the figurative corner. Before all that though, Gittin made his way to Niigata, Japan, to challenge fellow drifter Daigo Saito and his custom-built rear-wheel drive Lamborghini.

With 1,200 horsepower between these two monsters of drift, the drifting action takes on a decidedly post-apocalyptic feel once the darkness takes over in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Gittin and Saito took their battle to the abandoned Niigata Russian Village, a picturesque example of the “ruin porn” trope that so often fixates on places like Detroit or New Orleans. Opened in 1993 in a bid to improve relations between the two nations, Niigata Russian Village was shutted in 2002 due to a lack of visitors, perhaps owing to the fact that the main attraction was a replica Russian orthodox church. While it may have failed as an amusement park, it does make a wonderful race track, as Gittin and Saito expertly demonstrate.

While these aren’t quite Gymkhana levels of production values, the talent is certainly there all the same, especially as Gittin demonstrates his accuracy by knocking a lighted baton from a moving construction sign. Rocking the brand new body style and a 550 horsepower “Aluminator” 5.0 V8, Gittin’s new ride is ready to take the business to Formula Drift in 2016. Saito also impresses in his 650 horsepower V12 Lambo, and it’s little wonder that both drivers have Formula D championships to their name.