so who all was in the demo?

 

there was an s15, a mustang, s13, BMW, and 2qty 350z's.. I'll post pics up in an hour.


Here are my two cents..... WHERE WERE THE BAD ASSES?? DAMN, I WAS HOPING TO SEE DURDISHUS, HACHIBILL, AMONGST MANY OTHERS!!!!!

I hope tomorrow's and sunday's displays are more entertaining..

 

sorry man, didn't mean to disappoint, but i'm in cali for round 1 of formula d. i wish i old have been there, it sounded like alot of fun.

 

It was the old driver of the Braile auto integra, which he now drives a white 350z, the two battleground drivers in their S14s , TerTech's BMW, Ernie Fixmer driving a red S13, an asian girl driving a red 350z, and a mustang. The cars all looked beautiful, but you could easily tell who was adapting quicker to the track.

 

hahaha all day, all we smelled was rubber... after the drift even, there was a strong ass smell of BURNT OIL... especially when the BMW took a dump and started smoking like crazy..... THE ONLY ONE that drifted their ass off was the beamer tho....

 

I didn't see the ter tech car start smoking, but the red 350 was smoking a lot when they first took to the track. IMO the white 350 and ter tech were kicking ass.

 

Is there going to be drifting every day of the event?

 

yes. Friday was just a "practice" day for them to get used to the track. Sunday they get a whole half of an hour to show it off.

 

Drivers were Harri Tervola (BMW), Blake Fuller (White Z), Ernie Fixmer (Red 240sx), Verena Mei (Red Z), Dan Willie (Batlground 240sx) & Doug vanDenbrink (Red Mustang).

Tracy Shayhorn was also scheduled to drive with the other Batlground S14, but after Dans car broke on Friday, she loaned her car to him and on Sat, the organizer decided that since she had not taken part in the Friday practice, she couldn't do the Sat/Sun demos.

Verena's car burning some oil/water I think was from either rings or turbo, but apparently the Nismo guys who built the car say its fine.


The BMW didn't break on Friday, the oil was just because our catch tank filled up and overflowed into our exhaust evac system. We showed up running on 5 cylinders though and I would say did a hell of a job regardless.

The track was pretty narrow in some parts and the walls were definitely intimidating to some of the drivers.

Harri was the only driver who was really going balls-to-the-wall errr bumper-to-the-wall, he brushed the wall on entry 3 or 4 times and the corner workers were going wild for it.

Blake did really awesome as well and really just went for it after getting into the tire wall on saturday.

Verena did well but wasn't super aggressive. She managed to catch the tire wall twice today (sunday). Once she slid backwards into it and another time the left rear I think.

Ernie rocked some hardcore manji down the some of the straightaways and tagged both rear corners pretty good on the S13. I think he did decent overall, but had quite a few spins. He also nearly took out a few other cars by doing donuts in some of the corners when other drivers were coming (most of the turns were nearly blind).

I didn't see a lot of dans runs but what I did see was some smooth clean drifting. Dan got the right front corner on a tire wall I think, but minimal damage, just lost the bumper pretty much, but Blake came into the turn and nailed the bumper and dented the right side on the Z.

I didn't see much of Doug either but he had some nice drifts and the car sounded awesome, rear-mount turbo 4.6. Doug definitely wasn't going all-out and was the only car that got away with zero damage.

The fans really really went crazy for the drifting and it's a shame we were scheduled so early on sunday, other wise there would have been an even bigger crowd that got to learn what it was. Saturdays track time was perfect and everyone who came back to our paddock area loved it. WDC even setup an autograph session for the drifters on saturday,

Overall this event was a HUGE step in the right direction for drifting, and it looks like the IRL got a lot of positive feedback from the fans and track workers too. Hopefully things will fall into place and there will be more IRL/drifting combo weekends this year.

As for our car, well the dead cylinder problem got worse over the weekend, and this morning the car finally lost all power on about 15min into the session and harri brought it in. Look like maybe a headgasket. Plans now are to make the car look nice and at the same time build a newer car, probably a '99 or 2000 3series.

To sum it up we all had a great weekend, blown car or not, and I know everyone who took part would like to extend huge thanks to WDC for putting this together and paying for everything throughout the weekend plus being the most professional people that I have had the pleasure of working with in the world of drifting.

-Sean

 

So I take it they know how to promote an event with out any shadyness? Hahaha

But this is awesome. I would like to one day step in on a demo weekend if it were ever possible.