So I have this car right? Well anyway its an extra car that was given to me for free, and lets say that it needs a little Tlc. So the plan is to give this car the much needed love and then sell it to turn a profit. So its been sitting at my work on in the back... I mean way back... you cant even see the car unless you are looking for it. So on friday I try to start the car because I figure what better place to start than making sure it runs like its supposed to. So I get my trusty jumper cables out and I hook them up because lets face it the car has been sitting for 2 years its battery is going to be dead. To get to the point I start the car up fires up on the second turn, great no problems here. I let the car run for a bit but since I dont have any gauges hooked up I decide to turn it off and work on it more on next monday. Well I throw my jumper cables into the beat up car and lock the doors not thinking much of it because I never use them anyway might as well be with the car that needs them. Come back to work on monday and the car is moved, okay no problem my friends moved it because a tree was going to fall on it. Then I start thinking how did they move it the door was locked and the ebrake was set, hrmm so I start asking around and apparently the door was unlocked on sat. morning. Weird but no problem it didnt really matter if it was locked it wasnt in any condition to steal and it sat for 2 years with the windows down and it didnt get stolen. So today I go to start it back up and find that my jumper cables are missing??? Not only that but the door lock is broken on the drivers side from someone breaking in, now this is really wierd because it wasnt worth breaking into its a POS. Then I borrow some jumper cables and start the car, but wait the car only runs for about 1 min and then dies. Strange it ran great the other day and nothing has changed, but wait something had changed the asshole that stole my jumper cables also syphon'd all the gas out of the car. Now tell me what kind of person breaks into a car for jumper cables and a couple of gallons of gas. Really it wasn't worth it at all especially for gas that had sat for 2 yrs and prob. wasnt worth burning in the first place. In the end the stupid thief saved me from dropping the gas tank to empty the bad gas out :) and I lost a good pair of jumper cables.

Well I went out to Drift Day 31 on sun. the 5th of Feb. They were holding L3 instructor tryouts so me being an advanced driver and already talking to Naoki about wanting to help out figured this would be the perfect way to put my time in. Well there were 6 advanved drivers that tried out with 4 spots to fill so it was pretty relaxed, no real pressure with so many spots to fill and them needing the instructors. Long story short everyone did great but they decided only to fill one spot on Sun. and it went to me. So I was pretty excited and still am I get to go help out now and put my time in but I get to do it on better terms than being a straight up volunteer. I also get to go before anyone else and help with course setup and testing. It will be a lot of fun but also a lot of work, long days in the sun and no pay but I want to help out and return a little to the people that have helped me out so far in this crazy growing scene known as drifting. Thats all for now here is a video from sun. for you all to enjoy.

Drift Day 31 Video

Well my original blog didnt post for some reason so this will be much shorter version of it :) I was at irwindale speedway on sat. to compete in the formula d feeder qualifier looking for my fd license. Unfortunately it rained and we didnt get to do the full course where I could really showcase my skills. The car was setup for a bigger higher speed course and really threw me for a loop as well as many many other people having a really tight technical course. Well I couldnt get my line down and ended making a pretty poor showing of it. I did complete the course and I didnt hit the wall which is better than 90% of the people that went but not good enough to get my licence. I wont post up my runs because they arent very exciting but for all those that didnt get to witness the carnage first hand following this long and drawn out rant is a video of just some of the crashes and mishaps as well as some of the better runs of the day. The course was so difficult that a d1 driver and judge hit the wall on the exhibition run and another judge and d1 driver couldnt even complete the course so I dont feel so bad about not getting my license it wasnt my day, I got that idea when it rained and not very much just enough to keep the track wet all day and ruin the drifting fun :) Well there is always another day and I am very happy to have avoided the walls. Special thanks to all that came out to support me and stood around in the rain and helped work on the car and such. Thanks!

Click here to watch 'FD-Qualifier-quick-vid'