Sunday
Deconstruction
Not even a week after ever crashed his car, we have taking every useable part of his car in preparation for his new build. The pictures don't do justice to how bad the damage is to the frame. Both frame rails are kinked behind the subframe and even the subframe is kinked in the middle. So rather then try to fix this chassis, we are opting to just go the new chassis route. Stay tuned as we start the new build later this week, there are surprises in store
Monday
VgeasDrift Last Event of 2012
This event was a bittersweet one for me. it starts the day before when my best friend crashed his car during a practice of the course. I was pretty bummed that we weren't able to tandem together, but we will get him a new car built and be ready for the next Vegasdrift Pro/AM season.
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so on to the actual day of the event. This only being my second event i have entered in my car i was still pretty nervous, and this event was one of the biggest turn outs in three years so there was plenty of talent there which didn't help my nerves. the track was setup with a high speed third gear entry into a long sweeping right. im not a fan of right turn initiations, so that was another obstacle for me to overcome. well i was able to shake my nerves off and make a couple of passes, Then i was really able to get comfortable with the course. here is a crude video i made with my go pro just sort of hacked together but you get the idea.
I learned a lot from this event like how pushing your clutch in during transitions helps, ebrakes can help you get a little farther if your coming up short on a clipping point, and how making sure you have good tires. and keeping new ones on to help keep your grip up, This helped me out in being consistent. i really only went out there with 2 goals in mind, 1 stay consistent and 2 work on trying to hit the clipping points and put the car in all the right spots as if it were a judged event. i also learned that my tires were CRAP, i was running the Achilles 2233 in a 225 45 17 and all they did was chunk chunk chunk. they have very little grip and they chunk like crazy i have no other experience with Achilles tires so im not going to say that all Achilles tires are bad. but take my advice and DONT get the 2233's. luckily Ever had some spare wheels since he wouldn't be driving this event. So half way through the day i switched to his wheels, after i had already gone through 2 sets of my Achilles tires. i pop'd on his fresh FEDERAL 595 tires and boy what a difference. The grip was better, the smoke was better, they wore evenly with no chunking, and they lasted a long time. im very satisfied with the federals and will be running then from now on, and most likely i will get the federal rsr tires for the front as the 2233 are even chunking on the front of my car.
so by the end of the day i was feeling good, had some good tires on the back and felt like stepping it up so i tried running a few of my first ever tandem runs. below is the only video i have that my girlfriend took on her phone from the bleachers.
the video is very poor quality but you get the idea, i am the lead car.
Also check out this video by Tommy Suell, im supper excited that i made it into this video there are some pretty cool shots of me i really like the shot where im being followed by Josh Guild. Thanks again Tommy for including me in the video.
so to wrap it up i would like to thank Nick for putting on a great event, and for all the VEGASDRIFT staff that made it possible. i would have to say that this event was one of the best ones in a while. i would also like to thank everyone that came out to drive and to watch we need big turn outs like this so we can justify having practice events more often. If your still having doubts about coming out to drive at a practice event cause your embarrassed of your car or the skills you lack, you should really think about making it out to the next event. everyone is so nice and helpful out there, there was no egos and there was three separate tracks a figure 8, and small 1st/2nd gear course and then the main course. please don't let drifting die in Las Vegas.
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so on to the actual day of the event. This only being my second event i have entered in my car i was still pretty nervous, and this event was one of the biggest turn outs in three years so there was plenty of talent there which didn't help my nerves. the track was setup with a high speed third gear entry into a long sweeping right. im not a fan of right turn initiations, so that was another obstacle for me to overcome. well i was able to shake my nerves off and make a couple of passes, Then i was really able to get comfortable with the course. here is a crude video i made with my go pro just sort of hacked together but you get the idea.
I learned a lot from this event like how pushing your clutch in during transitions helps, ebrakes can help you get a little farther if your coming up short on a clipping point, and how making sure you have good tires. and keeping new ones on to help keep your grip up, This helped me out in being consistent. i really only went out there with 2 goals in mind, 1 stay consistent and 2 work on trying to hit the clipping points and put the car in all the right spots as if it were a judged event. i also learned that my tires were CRAP, i was running the Achilles 2233 in a 225 45 17 and all they did was chunk chunk chunk. they have very little grip and they chunk like crazy i have no other experience with Achilles tires so im not going to say that all Achilles tires are bad. but take my advice and DONT get the 2233's. luckily Ever had some spare wheels since he wouldn't be driving this event. So half way through the day i switched to his wheels, after i had already gone through 2 sets of my Achilles tires. i pop'd on his fresh FEDERAL 595 tires and boy what a difference. The grip was better, the smoke was better, they wore evenly with no chunking, and they lasted a long time. im very satisfied with the federals and will be running then from now on, and most likely i will get the federal rsr tires for the front as the 2233 are even chunking on the front of my car.
so by the end of the day i was feeling good, had some good tires on the back and felt like stepping it up so i tried running a few of my first ever tandem runs. below is the only video i have that my girlfriend took on her phone from the bleachers.
the video is very poor quality but you get the idea, i am the lead car.
Also check out this video by Tommy Suell, im supper excited that i made it into this video there are some pretty cool shots of me i really like the shot where im being followed by Josh Guild. Thanks again Tommy for including me in the video.
so to wrap it up i would like to thank Nick for putting on a great event, and for all the VEGASDRIFT staff that made it possible. i would have to say that this event was one of the best ones in a while. i would also like to thank everyone that came out to drive and to watch we need big turn outs like this so we can justify having practice events more often. If your still having doubts about coming out to drive at a practice event cause your embarrassed of your car or the skills you lack, you should really think about making it out to the next event. everyone is so nice and helpful out there, there was no egos and there was three separate tracks a figure 8, and small 1st/2nd gear course and then the main course. please don't let drifting die in Las Vegas.
TSJ ALL STARS - JAPAN DRIFT TRIBES - THE KANTO AREA 1 FULL MOVIE
Just watch and soak in the awesomeness
Sunday
Vegasdrift 22 T&T
Yesterday was the first event i have ever done, and i could not have been more happy. My car performed flawlessly and so did Evers with exception of his fan ground wire coming lose, but after a quick fix he was back on the track. Ever and i have Ben long time supporters of Vegasdrift and Ever has even entered a few events years ago before he started deconstructing his car for the last 3-4 years. We are usually at every event weather or not we are driving. we are out to support the grass root drifters and the Vegasdrift sanctioning body. This event was in jeopardy of being cancelled due to lack of people signing up, when i heard about that i sent out cries all over the social networks to try and get people to sign up. i just don't understand how you wouldn't like to pay some money to drift all day from 9-5 with out any care in the world, no tickets, big wide open area so its harder to crash, and all the free advice you can get from people with YEARS of knowledge. not to mention that everybody on the Vegasdrift staff are so nice and helpful and the really want to help the grass roots drifter that is aspiring to make it to pro level. Nick (the man responsible Vegas drift) is trying very hard to get these events together and help support our sport of drifting. But with the lack of people turning out for these events its almost not even worth it for the amount of work it takes to get these events all planned and coordinated. We need more interest in these events, how come when there is a Vegasdrift Meet and greet people come out of the wood works to attend, but then when it comes time to pony up and do an event nobody shows any interest. I guess there are just more internet drifters then there are real drifters.You cant tell me that you do it on the streets everyone knows that one warehouse is a bust, the other one has speed bumps now, the other one is so tight that you risk running into cement curbs, and im not preaching to keep it off the streets im aware of how drifting started and how fun it is to drift. But where else can you get a full 3rd gear pull to a large sweeping turn where you can actually get experience at high speeds. Lets face it doing donuts in first or second gear in a round about or a parking lot does not qualify you as a drifter, I do that with my Prerunner. These events are the chillest things around people with stock cars are out there, people with slow cars are out there, people that have NEVER drifted or even done donuts are out there. Please don't let these events DIE show you support for Vegasdrift and grass roots drifting, DONT BE SCARED, SHY, or EMBARRASSED. plan ahead start saving 5 bux a day. i guarantee you that you will have so much fun. the next event is Sunday November 18th start saving. oh and you can say you need tires, ever went through 1 1/2 sets of tires. now that's 2 federals and 2 more that he still has enough life on to do about 7-10 passes at the next event i went through 2 1/2 sets but only due to tire pressure issues, but i go it figured out and next event i should only need four tires. ever uses federal 595 tires and i tried out the Achilles 2233 both of those tires are pretty cheap about 75 a tire for the federals about 65 a tire for the Achilles
Now on to the actual event, i usually am behind the scenes taking pictures for the blog. but this time i didn't take any pictures and i only did one go pro video. there was just no down time it was drift drift drift all day. so below are only my one video and a video from TRACKDAY.NET that features Evers car,and a couple pictures i took with my phone. sorry. but that all i got.
Now on to the actual event, i usually am behind the scenes taking pictures for the blog. but this time i didn't take any pictures and i only did one go pro video. there was just no down time it was drift drift drift all day. so below are only my one video and a video from TRACKDAY.NET that features Evers car,and a couple pictures i took with my phone. sorry. but that all i got.
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