A short clip, shot by Tri Tri-Rudolph, from my qualifying run where I flipped the clipping point.

What an amazing weekend! After obliterating both motor mounts, & a bearing in my differential during qualifying, I managed to lay down a run that I was pleased with, so overall I walked away happy. The BFGoodrich G-Force Sport tyres performed flawlessly, and made for a great smoke-show upon track exit! HUGE HUGE thanks to Kieran from Gran Turismo East, and Dan & Tracy from Batlground Engineering for lending such a huge hand this weekend!!!

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I had the drift car officially stripped of all her vinyl for about two whole days… then she got wrapped with new graphics! It was kinda cool having her all black and shiny again. With those ol’ Racing Dynamics tucked under the wheel wells… she was indeed looking more old-skool euro – much to my liking.

I got the primary base of the new graphics on the car about an hour before I had to be at the track for Round 2 of Formula Drift @ Road Atlanta. I got most of the sponsor logos on the car at the track, and actually finished the rest of the application after race-weekend.

I designed everything in Illustrator… and it’s kinda crazy to see it go from the screen to the car. I’m an old skool veteran to vinyl application… but never anything this large in scale. I couldn’t have got-r-dun without Tracy’s help at Batlground. Everyone conked out asleep, or went home… but she stayed up to help me hinge the vinyl onto the car… proving once again that Batlground is the BEST ever. Thank you Tracy!!!

Ol’ grrrl is finally starting to look like a racecar instead of a street car with more stickers than you can count. Now… about some aero…
;P< This is a screenshot out of Illustrator of the file I was working with:.

Weeding vinyl on carpet isn’t much fun.

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On three… I’m going to close my eyes, and this will be applied… 1.. 2..

THREE! Man, that was easy. ;p

Batlground and Gran Turismo East logos complete.

Headed to the track with more vinyl work to do…

At the track…

On the track…

Through my sponsorship with Gran Turismo East, I would like to welcome BFGoodrich on board as my new tyre sponsor! I had a chance to test out their G-Force Sport tyres. They are a phenomenal tyre that hold up to heat and perform on demand! I’m really excited to be working with both Gran Turismo East and BFGoodrich this season!

I will be competing in the 2nd round of the SCCA Formula Drift Series at Road Atlanta!

We did our first drift demo for NOPI/NDRA in Valdosta this weekend. It was a blast. We have a lot to work out to make the whole thing more of a “demo”… so it was a good learning experience. The way the track was set up… spectators weren’t really allowed anywhere near us, so we were pretty isolated to the infield of the circle-track the whole weekend. It gave me a chance to relax between demos, and do a ton of skateboarding.

We all got interviewed be the Speed Channel… so we’ll see how it turns out! Overall, it was a great weekend!