Checking in from the road...

Post by **andysapp** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:17 am

OMG DRIFT RACING!!!1

Its been a craaazy weekend. Three events... Three days... Summed up: pure mayhem. We're headed back to ATL, but I figured I'd drop word on how things went.

The FD qualifier was a mess. It rained, turned all the dirt and sand in the lot to mud... And turned everyone to suck. People were killing it at the practice day a day earlier... And one the mud was slung... Nobody was looking good.

They only gave one FD license... To Quoc Luy in his satin black 13 hatch. A provisional license was given for the FOERST three events to the driver of the green Garage 112 hachi. Two invites were given to the qualifier in San Diego. One to "Hachi Bill" Sherman from No Ants... And the other invite to me.

After the announcement was made we all went back out for an amazing session filled with tandem madness. It was sooo much fun. Once the pressure was taken out of the equation, and it dried up a little... People were ripping it.

Last night we blazed trails to Lousiana for the Import Face-Off invitational. It was gawt damed AWESOME. It was a road course that was very challenging... And by mid-day we were killing it. Hot lapping the entire circuit with non-stop drift madness at every corner.

martymartymarty.net, Dan and I all made top 8. martymartymarty.net and I both advanced once, to be eliminated. I was taken out by the 1st place finisher (mostly due to fuel cut with gas sloshed to one side), and martymartymarty.net was taken out by the second place finisher... Also in a Miata.

martymartymarty.net and I got to battle it out for 3rd/4th... Just like the drift expo!!1 it was AWESOME. From what we were told it was the best tandem of the day. We got wikkid close, and finished it off with some slow manji standing burnouts for the crowd to finish the day.

People at the event were SO stoked about drifting. It was really a cool day, and it totally validated all the stress, sleep deprivation, and personal anguish I put myself through in the past two weeks. It was an amazing track and an amazing day.

Anyway... Now that I've rambled on for a good bit... I guess I'm gonna pass out. It's been a looong two weeks... And I can't wait to get home.

Let's set some shit on fire this weekend.

CodyW · Post by **CodyW** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:19 am

woooo, i'm down!!

much respect to all you guys for tearing it up down there too!

Rhoad Racing · Post by **Rhoad Racing** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:28 am

Righteous!!
Congrats to all of you guys! I can't wait to see some footage of the mayhem.

down_shift · Post by **down_shift** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:32 am

Sounds like an incredible weekend. Is there any coverage of the LA event?

CBR · Post by **CBR** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:16 pm

Oh teh instanity!1

Post by **andysapp** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:16 pm

I'm going to try and hunt down some coverage later tonight. I want to find video from the specator standpoint BAD. All my in-car does the track no justice.

Next event they have there... we HAVE to go back.
It's fukkin' gnarly!

Post by **andysapp** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:42 pm

Post by **andysapp** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:43 pm

down_shift · Post by **down_shift** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:45 pm

lucky!

/napoleon

Post by **andysapp** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:53 pm

http://hyper-productions.net/pics/IFO/

matts13 · Post by **matts13** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:09 am

those are some good pics. i love the pink looks really good a lot better than before. glad to see you got the bmw back together too.

Post by **andysapp** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:50 am

Thanks man! I'm glad to have her back together as well. My weight reduction efforts are starting to pay off. I was in third gear the entire time on that track... much to my amazement. I didn't think a lot of that would make a difference... but I was indeed wrong.

I agree... the pink effing RAWKS.
+1 for pink.

turbofb · Post by **turbofb** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:44 am

So whats does the invite mine? Will they let you run at fd road atlanta? Congrates on the invite

Post by **andysapp** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:51 pm

The San Diego qualifier is an "invite-only" qualifier. I just found out today that it is the FINAL qualifier for FD this season. SO... I'll have to see what I can do about getting out there. It would be good in more than one way to make it that way - I'll just have to see what I can do.

I still don't really see why I got an invite. I did VERY poorly. The one qualifying run that I didn't battle massive understeer, I was off line IMHO. Maybe they were watching practice, and recognized that something was different (I was doing decent in practice), so that's why I got the invite... a second chance of sorts.

down_shift · Post by **down_shift** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:27 pm

Well anyway you cut it you got fourth in the judges points. It'd would be different if the invites were to people who scored like mid pack or something. You did something right.

But they have other reasons for to want you out at SD.

*edit hmm so I guess the SEDA Qualifier is for the 07' season?