HyperFest 2004 at Infineon Raceway 9/11/04

[Raziel]

I was there too. I wish i could have had more track time but oh well. Good job to all the drifters that went out there. The course wasnt all that friendly. I mean it wasnt easy to clear that first turn because it was up hill and hard to gain enough speed for some people. But a lot of people handled it well. Mooboy your always at the events im at. Next time say whats up. You know my car by now i think. The black FD.

[Mooboy]

Originally posted by Raziel
I was there too. I wish i could have had more track time but oh well. Good job to all the drifters that went out there. The course wasnt all that friendly. I mean it wasnt easy to clear that first turn because it was up hill and hard to gain enough speed for some people. But a lot of people handled it well. Mooboy your always at the events im at. Next time say whats up. You know my car by now i think. The black FD.

Definetly i'll say whats up. My clutch is all but dead so I only had power in 1st gear ahaha. I think I got some cool shots of your car driving past me with the fisheye lens as well as some savage spin action I'll let you know. You going to any of Al's private events?

[Slonie]

Originally posted by prophet
They might if it was on tape but other then that i dounbt it. It was pretty random you hit it at some weird angle. If someone had it, it was luck because no one was expecting you to do that, you were doing pretty damn good. Ive never drifted but from what i saw my opinion on the track is to take the truns wider so you can sling your way into that stupid *Censored**Censored**Censored* turn thats soo damn sharp you cant even take it. That track set up was kinda crappy to be honest :/ Did you just loose control or what?

Luckily I already know two people who have it on video, and it will be posted as soon as I can get my hands on it! One of them may have even been shooting progressive scan for a nice still frame capture...

The track itself really was tricky. We were headed uphill into the big right, and the left hander after the main right was very very tight. You had to slow down a LOT and position the car on the far right to be able to clear it. Even then, us Corollas without massive power had a very small chance of continuing the drift past the tight left. With more power it would be easy...After that point the big left into the exit was pretty easy of course.

As for the hop, I made a gross miscalculation of where the car was going to go when I pulled the ebrake up. The idea was to just kiss the berm and go up a tiny bit, not to use it as a launch pad! Usually when you use the e-brake while sideways it will slide you outward while keeping the same angle...In this case I didn't have enough angle so I just slid forward at a 45-degree angle and hit the berm dead on! Anyway, that was the best photo finish ever so I don't regret it. I had like 5 degrees of toe-out on the passenger side afterward, but a quick alignment via eyeballing it had the car tracking nice and straight again for Sunday's runs...

Thanks for the pics and support, guys!

[DV_S13SIlvia]

Originally posted by prophet
heh bunny hop.

13 did you race?

Heh no i didn't. I'm too poor and neither my car nor I am track ready just yet.

[prophet]

what kinda stuff does a car need to be track ready?

[DV_S13SIlvia]

Suspension that isnt on thier last legs and that can break if the weight is shifted too much. Basically my suspension is shot due to the last owner.

[prophet]

huurm yeah you dont want the car bottoming out on you

[DV_S13SIlvia]

LoL yea THAT wouldn't be very good at ALL!!!!
Now that I think about my car I need to balance my tires too. Crap, my car's barely even street worthy.

[prophet]

Atleast you have a car i need to use the bus and my feet :/

[DV_S13SIlvia]

.................... Good point!

[Krazy Bunta]

How bout an amatuer vid?

www.ncda.net/NCDA_Represent.WMV

[Raziel]

Originally posted by Mooboy
Definetly i'll say whats up. My clutch is all but dead so I only had power in 1st gear ahaha. I think I got some cool shots of your car driving past me with the fisheye lens as well as some savage spin action I'll let you know. You going to any of Al's private events?

I dont think ill be going to any of Als events anytime soon. I actually just barrowed a friends Power FC so i could make this one. I still need to buy a new one.

Yah my FDs really spin happy. I wish i had more time to get used to the track. At first i would pitch it too much so i couldnt clear the first turn but on my last run i figured out not to do that and to slowly pitch it more and more till the end of the long turn. Oh well next time.

[Slonie]

[FD3S_pilot]

i couldn't go but my friends went....hey raziel i think my friend got a pic of your car i'll post it later, who's the guy in the Fc(the winner) and dam Solnie my friends told me a ae86 got air but dam i didn't know it was you!! man i heard stuff like FDs spinning out and shxt!!!! a civic doing donuts and a sick blue s14 from Sac. dam i should have gone and hang with you guys...well always Formula D in Oct. something

(got some pics of those guys "racing" on kiddy-bikes......i wonder who they were?)

[Raziel]

Originally posted by FD3S_pilot
i couldn't go but my friends went....hey raziel i think my friend got a pic of your car i'll post it later, who's the guy in the Fc(the winner) and dam Solnie my friends told me a ae86 got air but dam i didn't know it was you!! man i heard stuff like FDs spinning out and shxt!!!! a civic doing donuts and a sick blue s14 from Sac. dam i should have gone and hang with you guys...well always Formula D in Oct. something

(got some pics of those guys "racing" on kiddy-bikes......i wonder who they were?)

Yah my first time on this course. Took me 4 runs to get used to it. But on my last run i got the long sweeper but was carrying too much speed for the tight U turn.

The guy driving the FC was henry Anh hes cool. Hes one of the NCDA instructors.