03/21/2015 is the day they had the event called Spirit of the streets hosted by Vegas Drift / Southwest Drift.
The course was designed for 3rd gear guys with some decent power, this case my car doesn’t like 3rd gear for long, but it can handle this course. I think the first turn is a long sweeper and it is wide open designed for both style low powered and high powered cars is where it got me a bit confused. If I take it too short in 3rd gear when I hit the turn too close to the inside cones I end up under-steering and if I take too far away and attempt to clip the cones as the wall I tend to loose power fast and down shift to 2nd and attempt to regain speed in which when doing so I end up spinning out. A few times I hit the whole course which was awesome.
I am still learning the ways finding the line and maintaining the line, but it doesn’t help when the cones created in such a way it confuses me, but I don’t care anymore if this was me last year I would be intimidated and stick to the wet course. But sometimes you Just have to figure it out when you get there and when you are there and found that solution use it and remember it. The Pro-Am / FD guys have been in the same situation with their 240 many moons ago, but they do their best on keeping the balance in all the things. VD team does their best as well, they are the legit team to keep up the grassroots in the Las Vegas Valley.
You are out there, out there to have fun and enjoy it. I thrive to get better and for me this is a solo road. I got this is my moto. I really have little to no support especially from my own family but that is what drives me today to become better because if I don’t self motivate myself in doing what I have passion for no one else will and if you can support yourself in doing so you are a very strong person for doing it, and knowing people see it and giving you kudos for showing up and how good you are doing shows a sign that you are in the right path and you can feel proud of your own self motivated accomplishments.
Here is a video of me in the course, it was one of the first runs of the day. (video courtesy of Stephen Kufchak)
Here is another video taken by my friend Stephen Kufchak.
About 8 runs in, I blew up my first set of tires. It was epic and awesome as it has been a while since I have successfully shredded a set of tires. That is how much I was determined on this track, I was ready, I wanted to learn my car even more and this day I have learned my car and have taken her to a potential of another change. I will post up the new changes over on the GFunk Garage.
This event had a new change as it was not just a practice event, it was also a mini competition for street cars only. I spun out like a boss twice so I earned a 0, But hey… at least I tried. On the good side I didn’t slam into the wall or destroyed my suspension pieces.
I will be uploading my videos from my GoPro by this weekend as I got some editing to finish. My youtube channel for more information. One day I will start a Vlog of these adventures, and on that note I am off till the next event.
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