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!
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