Talk to you on the flip side, here's the commercial!
Dmcc Commercial RD1 // 2010 // dmccdrift.com - French [HD] from XCHD.tv on Vimeo.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
DMCC this weekend and all Female pit crew
.........ok except for Canadian pit chief Ed Imbeault, for the first time in history we are loading up the rig with an all female pit crew and cheering squad. This weekend marks Memorial Day here in The States and Round 1 of DMCC in Montreal Canada. DMCC is always a great time, the language barrier is just enough to handle and when we communicate, we are the ones with accents (cool). If your in town this weekend please stop by St. Eustache for Round 1. If you see us at Eggspectations, be sure to say hello and we will congratulate you on picking the best breakfast Montreal has to offer. Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening calamity will be sure to include St. Catherines and Cresent St activities.
Talk to you on the flip side, here's the commercial!
Talk to you on the flip side, here's the commercial!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Formula Drift Atlanta - the good, the bad and the ugly.
The weekend started out with a practice day on Thursday when we suffered a throwout bearing failure inside the transmission. This limited our runs for the day to 4 and we were stuck replacing the bearing at the mid-afternoon practice.
Friday's practice session went a little bit smoother but we only had an hour to dial in the car for the track. Constantly playing with tire pressures, it was time to get into grid and qualify for the main event on Saturday. We laid down a couple solid runs and waited for the rest of the field to post up their numbers. We were excited that we had one of the highest exit speeds of the weekend. The exit speed is measured coming out of the horse shoe and is typically where the men get separated from the boys. By the time the rest of the field put up their best runs we were stuck in the 32nd qualifying spot. Not where we wanted to be but we are happy that we made it to Saturday. Some of our friends didn't even make the main event. We were running the #1 qualifier on Saturday which was Tanner Foust. Now, Tanner has the 800hp Nascar powered Scion. With almost double the horse power, it was going to be an extremely tough battle to overcome.
Saturday came and we were staged up against Tanner, the lights on the tree dropped and we were off with Tanner leading first. I stuck as close as I could on his door and felt that the follow run was pretty good. I put the blinders on and we re-staged on the line with me set to lead the 2 cars into the depths of Atlanta's drift course. I put up a solid battle but it seemed too easy for Tanner as the Scion's power was no match for the 350z. At the end of my lead run around the last turn the engine let go and sprayed oil all over the place. The Track, Tanners Car and the engine bay of the Z were covered. It took quite some time to clean up but we have to be happy we didn't loose to Tanner by a spin or an amateur maneuver.
In the meantime we got the car back to the shop and the Drift, Break, Re-build, Repeat process is in full swing. We will have the 350z up and ready for DMCC Round 1 in Montreal at the end of the month.
Friday's practice session went a little bit smoother but we only had an hour to dial in the car for the track. Constantly playing with tire pressures, it was time to get into grid and qualify for the main event on Saturday. We laid down a couple solid runs and waited for the rest of the field to post up their numbers. We were excited that we had one of the highest exit speeds of the weekend. The exit speed is measured coming out of the horse shoe and is typically where the men get separated from the boys. By the time the rest of the field put up their best runs we were stuck in the 32nd qualifying spot. Not where we wanted to be but we are happy that we made it to Saturday. Some of our friends didn't even make the main event. We were running the #1 qualifier on Saturday which was Tanner Foust. Now, Tanner has the 800hp Nascar powered Scion. With almost double the horse power, it was going to be an extremely tough battle to overcome.
Saturday came and we were staged up against Tanner, the lights on the tree dropped and we were off with Tanner leading first. I stuck as close as I could on his door and felt that the follow run was pretty good. I put the blinders on and we re-staged on the line with me set to lead the 2 cars into the depths of Atlanta's drift course. I put up a solid battle but it seemed too easy for Tanner as the Scion's power was no match for the 350z. At the end of my lead run around the last turn the engine let go and sprayed oil all over the place. The Track, Tanners Car and the engine bay of the Z were covered. It took quite some time to clean up but we have to be happy we didn't loose to Tanner by a spin or an amateur maneuver.
In the meantime we got the car back to the shop and the Drift, Break, Re-build, Repeat process is in full swing. We will have the 350z up and ready for DMCC Round 1 in Montreal at the end of the month.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Preparing for Formula Drift - Atlanta, GA
The oil is changed in the Z and the tires are being mounted. Wednesday we hit the road for the first big event for our team and we are ready to place some tire marks on some hot Georgia pavement. This track is one is one of my favorites out of all the places I have driven. It's triple digit entry speeds combined with a little technical section make this track a lot of fun.
Here is a link to the video from last year so you get the idea.
Don't forget, you can now watch Formula Drift LIVE on Friday and Saturday by visiting Formulad.com/live I highly suggest figuring out a way to connect your computer to a large TV. This is a fully produced program with announcing and great camera angles.
For those of the less fortunate without a high speed internet connection, feel free to stop over at Import Intelligence for an oil change and to catch some of the action!
Talk to you guys on the flip side!
Here is a link to the video from last year so you get the idea.
Don't forget, you can now watch Formula Drift LIVE on Friday and Saturday by visiting Formulad.com/live I highly suggest figuring out a way to connect your computer to a large TV. This is a fully produced program with announcing and great camera angles.
For those of the less fortunate without a high speed internet connection, feel free to stop over at Import Intelligence for an oil change and to catch some of the action!
Talk to you guys on the flip side!
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