If you didn’t make it to the Speedtrial event on Saturday, then you should smack yourself right now!! (… waiting for you to smack yourself …) Hiroshi Takahashi from Running Free and Shinji Minowa from Hey Man! came over from Japan and gave us all silly Americans a show. They were great… showing us manji, chokudori, feint drifts, high speed, and smooth technique. I myself had such a great time, I honestly didn’t have much time to pay a whole lot of attention to our guests from Japan. I’ve improved so much since the last event that I could barely contain myself. I learned more than I ever hoped to… in the early morning part of the day, I was already doing braking drift (there was only one turn in the track where I used my side brake), entering drifts at 75mph, s-turns, feint motion drifts, and I even found out that I can show the peace sign while drifting with one hand. I also had the chance to help out my friends Johnny and Richard… they were drifting great towards the end of the day. Nadine and Tsuyoshi amongst other people took great pictures of me… thanks guys! I’ll post some more thoughts about the event as well as pictures later on this week (hopefully). Stay tuned!
Browsing Posts published in February, 2002
What the hell is with the date today? Anyway, Buttonwillow Raceway this weekend!! It’s a drift event… and Hiroshi Takahashi will be there from Running Free Japan. So here’s the to-do list that I always show you guys everytime there is an event coming up… Tires: I’m waiting on my W-10’s from Tirerack.com to come in tomorrow afternoon… I just picked out some used Michelin drifting tires at this cool little tire shop next to my house – the guy that works there is way cool. I also need to change my LSD oil, fuel filter, and belts… Other than that, everything seems okay. I’m surprised, because there’s not much to do this time… It’s comforting when your car runs great before an event. Oh yeah… I got a job! It’s a crappy one… but hey, it’s money. It will hold me down until things get better. Anyway, hope to see some of you at the event!
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