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Sung Kang made his “Fast & Furious” debut in the 2006 movie “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.”

And this month, the actor, known for playing Han Lue in the big-screen action franchise, is asking New Jersey locals to join him as he films his latest movie, “Drifter.”

Kang will be filming Saturday, Aug. 23 and Sunday, Aug. 24 at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown as part of Legends of Drift.

The event is billed as a drifting competition, car show and movie set all rolled into one celebration of car culture.

Drifting, unlike car racing, is centered on choreographed swerving and sliding. The sport got its start in Japan.

The drifting series Formula Drift has called Raceway Park and other local tracks home.

Kang is both starring in and directing “Drifter,” which he calls his “dream project.”

“To keep the culture authentic, I tapped a few of my friends to help,” he said in an Instagram video, listing people from the drifting world who will be part of the production.

One is pro driver Adam LZ, who is playing a role in the movie.

Legends of Drift is a ticketed event. (Tickets are $47.25 for a single day and $83.25 for both days.)

“If you’ve ever loved drifting, car culture, or just that feeling of being part of something bigger, I hope you’ll come out and join us,” Kang said in his post. “Who knows… maybe you’ll even make it into the movie."

Kang, 53, played the perennially snacking character Han Lue in the third “Fast & Furious” movie “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift."

He originated the character in the 2002 movie “Better Luck Tomorrow.”

Both films were helmed by Justin Lin, who went on to direct Kang in the “Fast & Furious” movies “Fast & Furious” (2009), “Fast Five” (2011), “Fast & Furious 6″ (2013) and “F9″ (2021).

Kang made his own directorial debut in 2022 with the horror comedy “Shaky Shivers.”

His TV roles include John Mak, the assistant U.S. attorney in the Starz series “Power” and “Power Book II: Ghost,” and The Fifth Brother in the Disney+ “Star Wars” series “Obi-Wan Kenobi” (2022).

In 2020, Kang started a YouTube channel and podcast called “Sung’s Garage."

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ENGLISHTOWN, NJ — As the summer season starts to come to a close, “Fast & Furious” star Sung Kang is preparing to get behind the wheel to film a new project in New Jersey, and he's inviting the public to be part of it.

On Aug. 23 and Aug. 24, Kang will be filming his movie “DRIFTER” as part of the Legends of Drift event at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, the actor announced in an online post.

According to the Legends of Drift website, the event will be “a full weekend of drift competition, car culture and the filming of ‘Drifter,’” which has been described as a new movie and passion project by Kang.

Drifting is a sport and driving technique where the driver purposely oversteers while still maintaining control and drives the car through the entirety of a corner or turn.

Kang will be in attendance at the event, alongside professional drift car driver Adam LZ, auto racing analyst and TV show host Rutledge Wood, drifter Luke Fink and more.

Part of "Drifter" will be filmed in front of a crowd at the event, and Kang is inviting fans to join in on the movie experience.

“This is it — I’m making my dream project: a movie about drifting, made with real people, real cars, and the real car community,” Kang said of the film shoot in an online post. “...One of the best parts? You get to be involved.”

“If you’ve ever loved drifting, car culture, or just that feeling of being part of something bigger, I hope you’ll come out and join us,” Kang said. “Who knows… maybe you’ll even make it into the movie.”

The Legends of Drift event will run from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 23 and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 24.

Tickets for individual days are $47.25 and $83.25 for the weekend overall (tickets can be purchased here).

In addition to his role as Han Lue in the “Fast & Furious” franchise, Kang is also known for the film “Bullet to the Head” in 2012 and for work in TV shows such as “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and “Lisey’s Story.”

To learn more about the Legends of Drift event, you can visit their website.

Old Bridge Township Raceway Park is located at 230 Pension Road, Englishtown.

MANALAPAN, NJ — The Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District has officially broken ground for a new addition to Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School (MEMS) to help relocate their administrative offices.

The groundbreaking ceremony, which took place on Aug. 6 at 10 a.m., featured remarks from Superintendent Nicole Santora, Board of Education members, and more as they prepared to break ground at the middle school for the offices' relocation.

The groundbreaking came after the district’s $115.4 million bond referendum passed in November, which called for the construction of a new addition to MEMS and relocation of the administrative offices currently located on 54 Main Street.

According to district officials, maintaining the administration building on Main Street would have required “extensive renovations and ongoing repairs, making it neither sustainable nor fiscally responsible."

Since the current administration building would have required such extensive renovations, this led the district to include the construction of a new addition at MEMS in their referendum.

“I was first elected to the Board of Education 20 years ago in 2005,” Board Member Ryan Green said at the groundbreaking ceremony. “I remember sitting with my fellow board members in the Main Street building, in what is now Dr. Santora’s office, talking about ‘how are we going to get out of Main Street, and where might we go?’”

According to Green, there were even board members before him, in the 1990s, who discussed how they were going to move administrative offices from Main Street, making this project one roughly 30 years in the making.

Though discussions of a move from Main Street date back decades, Green said their referendum committee only began meeting in January 2023, a year-and-a-half before their referendum campaign was launched.

Once the campaign began, that's when Green said their team really came together.

"The Board of Education, our community leaders, our Communications Committee, district administrators, parents, custodians, bus drivers, support staff — everybody came together to explain to our communities why we need to do this," Green said.

Once Manalapan and Englishtown voters approved the district’s bond referendum in November 2024, district officials were able to make their dreams of moving on from Main Street a reality.

“With this move, we’ll be able to use our funds more efficiently instead of paying for repairs, upgrades, and maintenance on an older building,” Santora said at the groundbreaking ceremony. “Those funds can now directly benefit our students. Additionally, our administration is now exactly where they should be: with our students, with our faculty at a school building."

“Thank you to all the residents of Manalapan and Englishtown who answered the call when we asked for your support,” Santora said. “Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Schools would not have been able to get this amount of critical work done in this short amount of time without this bond referendum. So thank you."

To watch a full recording of the groundbreaking ceremony, you can click here.

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