Helmets

I've always been a big fan of custom painted race helmets. I'm researching what I'd potentially like to do with mine, and I came across this video of Robert Kubica (BMW Formula 1 Driver) explaining the features of his F1 helmet. After all, they use the highest quality, most technologically advanced gear on the planet. I use the same gloves he does!

Naoki, you crazy

After looking at Drift Day Naoki's blog, I came across this flyer he made. I thought it was pretty cool. What a cool car! Look how sexy it is! That owner/driver must be the sexiest man alive.

Dirty

I like dirty women. I like dirty cars. I drive dirty.

Looking through someones compilation of the Inland Drift event, I found they actually got a shot of one of my funniest runs. Sit through the video or foreword to 3:16 and you'll see:

Driving through the dirt to try and connect the big sweeper.
Showering the course worker standing there with dirt.
My bumper falling off.

Ahhh Corollas.

Korea in the house!

If it weren't for the fact that some of my good friends are drivers in Formula D, sometimes I feel like I wouldn't pay attention to it. With the obsurdity of the vehicles lately and the seemingly blatant favoritism going on (not within the judging) a huge gap looked to be taking place. The winners in motor sports are usually the teams with the biggest budgets, but every so often a smaller team brings the rain and causes the bigger teams lots of pain. This past round of Formula D happened to have their own Braun GP thing going on, with So-Cal's own Joon Maeng taking 4th place!

This was important for a few reasons. First, Joon is one of the people who I think had one of these coming. He's one of the finest examples of a privateer driver who sincerely does do everything he possibly can to make it out to every event. He is certainly a guy who never gives any excuses and drives his heart out at every event. In addition, since he's a privateer, he doesn't have the funds to build a 900hp car, and instead has to rely on driving his car 100% all the time. That seems like something missing these days in drifting. He's also a sincerely nice guy who is always willing to talk to people and be friendly, but most importantly he's Korean!

Most of you probably won't care all that much, but I think its pretty cool that there's Korean representation in drifting. The sport is full of cultural representation, but Koreans haven't really found their way to the professional ranks all that often. John Yim carried the flag alone for a few years, but now that flag belongs to Joon.

Join me in congradulationg Joon on his finish!

Training continues...

My training goes on, and on, and on. I've never driven at the balcony before, and considering I'm planning on participating in a competition there, I figured I'd better learn how to do the course. Thanks to Johnny Mac and the rest of the crew, I started to get what to do and became a little more consistant.

Funny thing, I also tried tandem for the first time. Before you know it, we were doing 3 car tandem. Pretty scary:



I do think though that I may not totally embarass myself now at the competition. I nailed down a few runs that looked pretty good, so I'm a little more confident now. Third gear entry is pretty fun.
Balcony


Can't wait for next month's competition!

More nerdgasm!

As an autmotive fan, modifying my car for better performance has been at the center of my being for the past 8 years. I don't think there's a day that goes by where I don't think about racing technology, safety equipment or something related. Little did i know people are that way about flashlights.

Being the nerd of technology and "customization" that I am, I found this forum all about flashlights and the cool ways to modify them. http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ is yet another site that is equivalent to garage journal and bob is the oil guy. Some photos below are the types of things people do. Some look like high tech sex toys, and some look like light sabers. You could argue light sabres look like high tech sex toys.

I thought my nerdism was bad.

In Photos, Anyone Can Look Good!

Found some extra photos from the Inland event. I've never had photos of me drifting before, so I think its kind of cool!

Enjoy here: http://everythingdrift.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=20067&g2_page=4

So I've been drifting a lot lately. Truth is, I'm interested in running in the all AE86 competition in the next month or so, but I've never been that consistent with my drifting. I'm trying to get in as much practice as possible so I can guage for myself whether or not I'll be ready. Hopefully I make some big strides soon, so I can look like I know what I'm doing at the competition!