Sideways Hoonage

Last Sunday there was a private-ish drift event/get together/ho down/whatever out at Miller and Dave (master of the Ghetto Arts and proud owner of a Starion) invited me to shoot some photos. I happily complied, so at the crack of mid morning I set out for Tooele via SR201.

After an hour, or something, I arrived at the gates... as did Dave in a truck. I got my wrist band, signed a waiver, pulled in and drove to the far side of the paddock and parked. They blocked off the area between the "Basic Research" grandstand and the garages for the event. Unfortunately the track officials wouldn't let the drivers get close to the concrete barriers they used for the sectioning off, but being the creative and resourceful people they are the drivers made a small wall of tires a good ten feet in front of the barriers.

It was a good time, thanks to Dave for inviting me out. And now, on to the pictures:


Ladies and gentlemen, here are your participants... Well, some of them anyway


Yeah, you're gonna need these


And one of these


Cause this is gonna happen to your tires if you're doin it right. I have never heard so many tires popping and hissing.


V8 + FC3S = Bad Assery



You kids and your propensity to throw up the horns...


Jordan showed up. Here he's having some alone time under his jacket.


Points car. I think it's gonna be at Willow Springs this weekend.


The closest thing to a tandem drift that went on




I may have gotten a little close...

The rest of the photos, along with future drift photos, are gonna be in The Drift Kids set on my flickr page.

First Wide Open Wednesday of 2010

Yes, the time has come for Miller to open the east track to anyone with $25 and a car that isn't leaking fluids like crazy. It was the first Wide Open Wednesday of 2010 and there was a great turn out. UtahHondas.net had a big presence out there, hell, Hondas in general had a big presence: Civics galore, a CRX, a couple Integras, an S2000, a Prelude and an NSX, the holy grail of Hondas.
















Usually there's a healthy amount of Subaru's, but this time there were only 4: a last generation Legacy GT wagon (none of the pics turned out too well unfortunately), Jordan's monster truck:


This wagon which, after a first lap hiccup, ran pretty well:


A GC coupe that appeared for only one lap then disappeared:


And the lone Evolution representative:



...I'm having a bit of a hard time coming up with the necessary transitions, so I'm just gonna post some more pictures.


haggard


thunder bunny?


wonder if this one's ever gonna make it out there


You might think it's slow, and you'd be right


If not for the NSX this would've been the mid engine car of the event.


In life there are winners and losers. This guy is not only a winner, but he might be the WoW shit box champion.


He never moved from this position except when a Mustang would come through and eat a cone.


Everyone knows it's Jeffrey!


LOOK! IT'S JACKIE CHAN!!!


You know those old guy muppets in the balcony who always talk shit? Yeah, these guys aren't like them.

Look at all of the shots I've taken at all the Wide Open Wednesdays events in this massive flickr set!

Ferrari Challenge

I was supposed to go out to the Ferrari Challenge on Saturday, but nobody else was going that day so I decided to not drive my sleep deprived and alone self out to Tooele. I waited until Sunday to drive my sleep deprived and alone self out to the wind farm that was Miller. I knew Sean was gonna be out there, so I hunted him down after I hit on the girls in the ticket office (they smiled, but that's all they gave me). Found Sean, talked a bit then started shooting photos in the paddock.





Chatted some more, Sean left and the 599xx's and Fxx's started up and made their way down the pit. I was standing at the east end of the pits when the cars started up and rolled out of the garages.



After changing my pants and looking for a cigarette, I ran to the other end of the pits and set up at the exit of pit lane and watched them roll on to the track.



Check the safety car, a black California.



Then I ran around the track as the xx cars were lapping.






I wound up at the Clubhouse turn where I ran into Katie, the girl who bought my Pentax. She was out there breaking it in. It's in a good home. Anyway, the cars were coming into the turn pretty hot. How hot? Well, take a look



The xx's finished lapping and they started prepping the track for the 430 Challenge race, which got started a lot quicker than I expected. The 430's followed the safety car around on a parade lap, then got off to a rolling start for the 45 minute race.







Ryan was there, handing out claws to small children like this



The race ended and the brought out the cars for tech inspection, which was open to the public.




Some cars didn't fare so well in the race



Tech ended and I made my way to the parking lot, shooting photos on my way out






Later Miller. Thanks for hosting. I'll see you on Wednesday