Dec 22, 2007.
The first Norcal amateur drift competition held at Thunderhill raceway.

For this event I decided to get some Dunlop Direzza z1 sports tires.


Mostly to go along with my new front shoes. 17×9.0 +0 Volk te37′s in bronze.




Concave = SEXY

I got my car aligned during the week, and crashed while testing my alignment settings.
It wasn’t a pretty sight. Bent LCA, busted fender and bumper and headlight and corner lamp

Thanks to Herb for hooking it up with an alignment on Friday before the comp. Lucky for me I had some extra parts.
My buddy Gian had an extra LCA, so i purchased a new ball joint and threw it in. Replaced the fender and bumper.
I also installed the Msports headlight vent, VS driver fender and JDM urethane front bumper.

Now with my car looking kind of sexier it was ready-ish for the competition.
This was my first competition, more pics to be posted later.




A lot of the people in the comp had friday to practice on the full track. I got about 10-15 practice runs before the comp.
So I spent a lot of time getting adjusted to the new alignment settings and new tires.


So the track layout was awesome. I was having a great time just driving. The actual comp. was kind of biased, based on the fact that one of the judges was cheering for the guy who won first place (although his lines were spot on… this is where i mention he’s a professional driving instructor).
It went from 30drivers down to top 8 (they didnt’ do it d1 style w/ top 16). Apparently they were doing cumulative scores too because they totaled them at the end.
I’m standing by to hear from Geoff (t-drift organizer) about the final score standings.
Hopefully I learn from this comp and do well at the next one.
Thanks to:
Vex Motorsports – sponsoring the event, and letting me use the shop
Gian – if you didn’t have the LCA i’d of been screwed
Jay Pizo – Hooking me up some sweet as wheels as usual
Herb – Does my tires AND alignments
Whoever took the pics, cuz they came out awesome and whoever else i’m forgetting.
RESULTS ARE UP!!
Qualifying — For TOP 8
() – Car, [] Best qualifying score
1.Darius(s14) – 275 [95]
2.Connor(s13) – 260 [88]
3.Drew (s13) – 254 [90]
4.Thomas (ae86) – 248 [88]
5.Matt (s13) – 241 [85]
6.Joseph (s13) – 240 [95]
7.Jared (ap2) – 238 [80]
8.Xander (s13) – 237 [89]
9.Mando (ae86) – 228 [80]
10.Tommy (s13) – 221 [80]
11.Calvin (s13) – 203 [78]
12.Andrew (ae86) – 194 [70]
13.Serei (s14) – 190 [80]
14.David (ae86) – 185 [70]
15.Yee (s13) – 165 [65]
16.Andrew (s13) – 150 [70]
17.Kevin (ae86) – 125 [65]
18.Luis (s13) – 105 [45]
19.Brandee (s13) – 85 [35]
20.John (s13) – 78 [28]
21.Marc (s13) – 45 [15]
22.Jay Jay (s13) – 20 [18]
23.Arthur (ae86) – 5 [5]
24.Jeff W. (s13) – 0 [0]
25.Jay (s14) – 0 [0]
TOP 8
1. Jared (ap2) – 248
2. Thomas (ae86) – 237
3. Joseph (s13) – 230
4. Darius (s14) – 219
5. Xander (s13) – 205
6. Connor (s13) – 163
7. Matt (s13) – 20
8. Drew (s13) – 0
TOP 3
1.Jared (ap2) -271
2.Thomas (ae86) – 252
3.Joseph (s13) – 213
Based on top score during qualifying I should have been 11th. If only there had been a top 16. Congrats to everyone.
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