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FormulaDrift @ Irwindale Mega Post Part II: Down to Business

Posted by Chris on October 22 2009 2 Commented

The second day at FormulaD began with a walk around the pit and paddock areas to get a look at what the vendors/teams/builders/shops had on display. Right away I was drawn to a rather iconic set of colors…

Anyone who follows Subarus or sport compact racing in general will have seen the Crawford built 2008 time [...]

FormulaDrift @ Irwindale Mega Post Gallery Part I: The House of Drift

Posted by Chris on October 20 2009 3 Commented

Having never won a trip anywhere I didn’t know exactly what to expect beyond a flight and the event. It started off pretty damn good though; upon arriving at the hotel there was a nice surprise waiting for me in the room…

VIDEO/EVENT: CSCS @ Cayuga, It’s official: God Hates Racing

Posted by Chris on October 5 2009 3 Commented

As further proof god hates racing and Canada’s climate is a cruel joke, the season finale of CSCS was basically rained out. OK, maybe not rained out totally, a day full of spitting rain, puddles, problems with timing equipment, poor track conditions, made it a bit of a weak note to go out on. The [...]

EVENT: JDMRides Final Meet Up Close

Posted by Chris on September 28 2009 Add Comments

I hate shooting ‘meets’ and events like this. you always get shots of a wicked car with some other car you don’t really want in the shot behind it, or some tall skinny dude eating a hotdog in the background (that was me in many other people’s shots today). So I decided to focus more [...]

SIGHTING: Insane Lip

Posted by Chris on September 26 2009 Add Comments

Saw this at the Kennedy Commons meet last Wed. Absolutely BONKERS amount of lip on this BMW 650. I’m not a huge follower of this style really but I gotta say it worked really well on this car in particular. The owner seems to ‘get’ exactly what the 6-series is about. Not like the people [...]

EVENT: A foggy ALMS Mosport 2009

Posted by Chris on August 31 2009 2 Commented

ALMS quite literally roared into Mosport this past weekend and having missed the past two years because of my stupid birthday landing on this weekend I was determined to go this time. Forsaking family and the girlfriend and donned my rain gear and went with a good friend who knows the track decently with the [...]

EVENT: CSCS Cayuga August 23

Posted by Chris on August 25 2009 5 Commented

Sometimes it can feel a bit pointless shooting the same event returning to the same track with basically the same group of cars. It’s fun to attend and see familiar faces, races and places – but shooting it can often feel somewhat more deja vu than nostalgia. That said, CSCS this past weekend was a [...]

EVENT: DriftMania Day 2 – DMCC Smacks Downsview Around a Bit

Posted by Chris on August 17 2009 one Commented

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Sunday practice saw a lot of wall riding and wall… tasting… by the Pro cars. 2 of the cars, including the Solstice and an R33 Skyline went out of the competition before it even began. The actual competition day was cooler than the previous practice day, but the competition [...]

EVENT: DriftMania Day 1 – DMCC Hits Downsview!

Posted by Chris on August 16 2009 Add Comments

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I had been looking forward to Driftmania for the whole summer, and it happened to land on the very first warm weekend we had in Toronto. Prior to this it has been all rain and cool temperatures, which made for great drifting events on every on/off-ramp around the GTA [...]

EVENT: CSCS 2009 Season Opener @ TMP

Posted by Chris on June 2 2009 Add Comments

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This past Sunday was the Canadian Sport Compact Series season opener at Cayuga’s Toronto Motorsports Park. It was mostly a great day for running, perhaps a bit too cold to get the tires thoroughly heated on most events, but certainly not a problem for the drift guys!