More pictures from Day 2!
To say the least, this weekend was something out of a movie. Those who have seen the Top Gear episode of their 24hr race, it followed the exact same mood. For the stupidest of reasons, I rear ended a truck on Saturday at 10am, pulling out of the track to fill up the tank before doing a practice session. The truck ahead of me came to a full stop to ask a walking spectator something while I looked back to reach for my harness.
I got a huge trailer hitch through my intercooler, oil cooler and radiator, bending my core support.
At 10am, people were asking me how I was going to make it back home. With the perseverance of 3-4 people working on my car nonstop since the accident.... by 4pm, my car goes through tech and joins the practice session, and although with minor issues, the car leaked nothing and I was able to get a few runs in.
Here's a pic of putting the car back together, mid-afternoon on Saturday:
Here's a pic of how the car looked on a practice run Saturday afternoon:
By Sunday at 2pm, (where pictured), I was able to put on what I felt was an awsome show to the crowd spectating, with a mangled up car.
With all said and done, it's frustrating that since June (when my car left the bodyshop), all of the damage you see to the car is hardly related to drifting, aside from a tail light and a rear bumper and door trim. I've had the worst of luck outside of the track, but it's amazing at how this car keeps persisting and again and again proving itself to be one hell of a car.
Even so, I still cannot complain that I got an awsome Christmas present. The last time Homestead-Miami Speedway held a drift event was in 2004 where D1 hosted their driver's search. This is when I first started learning about drifting and it had been one of my dreams to slide that track ever since I started.
I'm definetly beyond thrilled. Now I gotta find some stuff in the storage to sell and raise money. I just figured a two month downtime on the car will be required... I will just have to get the money to do the cage, send it to the body shop, finish my new turbo setup and install any other goodies that are left.
I'd like to thank my sponsors for helping me get out there:
- SMDG Shop: For working on my car overnight, replacing my rear hubs, bearings, brakes, etc basically overnight to get the car ready for the event
- Ireland Engineering: For the urethane bushings on my car, which accomplished one hell of a difference, providing a lot more grip in the rear, which helps a LOT with predictability and control of the drift.
- KO Performance: For helping me get all the parts I needed from a miserable drift event the past weekend (where a wheel hub went bad and almost shot the wheel out mid-drift).
- R3vlimited: You guys still rock on with the support to keep this going. :)
Not forgotten as well is TJ from Stasis, who I'm hoping for the best and that his recent health issues were just a minor scare.
Anywho, I know there are more pictures and videos out there, and I will make sure to share with all of you. :D
Thanks again,
Erick
To say the least, this weekend was something out of a movie. Those who have seen the Top Gear episode of their 24hr race, it followed the exact same mood. For the stupidest of reasons, I rear ended a truck on Saturday at 10am, pulling out of the track to fill up the tank before doing a practice session. The truck ahead of me came to a full stop to ask a walking spectator something while I looked back to reach for my harness.
I got a huge trailer hitch through my intercooler, oil cooler and radiator, bending my core support.
At 10am, people were asking me how I was going to make it back home. With the perseverance of 3-4 people working on my car nonstop since the accident.... by 4pm, my car goes through tech and joins the practice session, and although with minor issues, the car leaked nothing and I was able to get a few runs in.
Here's a pic of putting the car back together, mid-afternoon on Saturday:
Here's a pic of how the car looked on a practice run Saturday afternoon:
By Sunday at 2pm, (where pictured), I was able to put on what I felt was an awsome show to the crowd spectating, with a mangled up car.
With all said and done, it's frustrating that since June (when my car left the bodyshop), all of the damage you see to the car is hardly related to drifting, aside from a tail light and a rear bumper and door trim. I've had the worst of luck outside of the track, but it's amazing at how this car keeps persisting and again and again proving itself to be one hell of a car.
Even so, I still cannot complain that I got an awsome Christmas present. The last time Homestead-Miami Speedway held a drift event was in 2004 where D1 hosted their driver's search. This is when I first started learning about drifting and it had been one of my dreams to slide that track ever since I started.
I'm definetly beyond thrilled. Now I gotta find some stuff in the storage to sell and raise money. I just figured a two month downtime on the car will be required... I will just have to get the money to do the cage, send it to the body shop, finish my new turbo setup and install any other goodies that are left.
I'd like to thank my sponsors for helping me get out there:
- SMDG Shop: For working on my car overnight, replacing my rear hubs, bearings, brakes, etc basically overnight to get the car ready for the event
- Ireland Engineering: For the urethane bushings on my car, which accomplished one hell of a difference, providing a lot more grip in the rear, which helps a LOT with predictability and control of the drift.
- KO Performance: For helping me get all the parts I needed from a miserable drift event the past weekend (where a wheel hub went bad and almost shot the wheel out mid-drift).
- R3vlimited: You guys still rock on with the support to keep this going. :)
Not forgotten as well is TJ from Stasis, who I'm hoping for the best and that his recent health issues were just a minor scare.
Anywho, I know there are more pictures and videos out there, and I will make sure to share with all of you. :D
Thanks again,
Erick
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