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Drifting started at 3:15 PM today on the streets of downtown Long Beach. All drivers except Casper Canul and Chris Kregorian took advantage of the short 30 minute demonstration session today. Casper is busy replacing his engine and should be back tomorrow for the main event.
J-Rod provided commentary to help the race announcers and fans understand and learn what drifting is all about. Brief driver introductions were given as the cars came out onto the track for their warm up lap. As soon as the sound of the cars was heard, every single person in the stands stood up. This was simply astonishing, considering just prior to this, Paul Tracy set a new course record and yet, only a few fans stood and cheered for that.
Some of the crowd favorites were Millen and Taniguchi. These two drove very close to each other and had consistant lines. Hayashida and Pfeiffer also had the crowd in an uproar. Hayashida's S14 deafening loud and Pfeiffer's AP1 shooting 4 foot flames out the RS*R exhaust.
Gitten managed to hit a tire wall again and ripped off his rear bumper as well as the wing. A small section of the bumper dangled from the car every lap and the crowd loved it. Sunday should be even better.
Yen, in the JIC S15, was having bad mechanical problems. The team was under the car taking out the axle. This was unfortunate because the JIC car is quite a beauty. The white pearl paint is a must see in person.
Fixmer managed to hit a barrier somewhere on the course thus ridding the McKinney S13 of the rear bumper. His day was cut short to a destroyed Imput shaft for the transmission. The team will be changing it out tonight.
Hiro Sumida in the blue 86 corolla was putting on an excellent show with Taka, but he hit the barriers twice. Front bumper, sideskirt, and rear bumper were broken and laying scattered on the course.
Tarzan tagged the wall with the rear quarter of the Viper and kept his drift going through the next corners. The crowd loved this, especially combined with the large amount of smoke and the deep roar of the motor.
Thoughts of the course this weekend.
Hiro - The track is very visually difficult. Even though they have distance markers, it's hard to judge the length before the corner approaches. The course looks very narrow at places.
Taka - You have to stay in the middle of the track because it is very slippery in certain places.
Alex - Tricky and fun.
JR - Absolutly Amazing. Favorite track ever.
Ernie - I love it. He says it reminds him of his days in Okinawa.
Ken Gushi - I think i kept running over the broken bumpers on the track.
Brian Harte
Pink GodziRa
J-Rod provided commentary to help the race announcers and fans understand and learn what drifting is all about. Brief driver introductions were given as the cars came out onto the track for their warm up lap. As soon as the sound of the cars was heard, every single person in the stands stood up. This was simply astonishing, considering just prior to this, Paul Tracy set a new course record and yet, only a few fans stood and cheered for that.
Some of the crowd favorites were Millen and Taniguchi. These two drove very close to each other and had consistant lines. Hayashida and Pfeiffer also had the crowd in an uproar. Hayashida's S14 deafening loud and Pfeiffer's AP1 shooting 4 foot flames out the RS*R exhaust.
Gitten managed to hit a tire wall again and ripped off his rear bumper as well as the wing. A small section of the bumper dangled from the car every lap and the crowd loved it. Sunday should be even better.
Yen, in the JIC S15, was having bad mechanical problems. The team was under the car taking out the axle. This was unfortunate because the JIC car is quite a beauty. The white pearl paint is a must see in person.
Fixmer managed to hit a barrier somewhere on the course thus ridding the McKinney S13 of the rear bumper. His day was cut short to a destroyed Imput shaft for the transmission. The team will be changing it out tonight.
Hiro Sumida in the blue 86 corolla was putting on an excellent show with Taka, but he hit the barriers twice. Front bumper, sideskirt, and rear bumper were broken and laying scattered on the course.
Tarzan tagged the wall with the rear quarter of the Viper and kept his drift going through the next corners. The crowd loved this, especially combined with the large amount of smoke and the deep roar of the motor.
Thoughts of the course this weekend.
Hiro - The track is very visually difficult. Even though they have distance markers, it's hard to judge the length before the corner approaches. The course looks very narrow at places.
Taka - You have to stay in the middle of the track because it is very slippery in certain places.
Alex - Tricky and fun.
JR - Absolutly Amazing. Favorite track ever.
Ernie - I love it. He says it reminds him of his days in Okinawa.
Ken Gushi - I think i kept running over the broken bumpers on the track.
Brian Harte
Pink GodziRa
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