The season winds down. There is now one solo2 event left, and the four drifting events in September. I'm actually looking forward to the seasons end so that I can park the 86, and start the work I have planned for the winter. What work is that? I won't say... these things have a tendency to not happen on schedule. [...]
I hit the yard today to look for some parts for my AE92, but ended up not finding anything for that car. I did however come away with a set of IronCross wheels, a rare factory fan shroud and some nice speakers for the 86. Stopped by the scales on the weigh home, and was surprised to read 980kg. Not […]
Been almost four weeks. To those who find the time to browse the web and read stories of car life, I apologize. This used to be me, and I always hated such long lapses without updates. Things have been so non-stop for us lately… there has been no time to get here. Even now… I don’t want to write anymore. […]
Six Calgary Sports Car Club members and near twenty Vancouver competitors made the trip down to the Seattle area for the SCCA Bremerton National Tour event. The event consisted of a Test 'N Tune on Friday afternoon then two days of competition on Saturday and Sunday.
For the Calgary contingent, we (at least me) were not exactly going down to bring home some hardware. The trip was for experience and to witness the level of competition and event organization the SCCA could bring. We were not dissapointed on either count. [...]
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V8Less SCC - For myself, the V8-less Urban Battle was an opportunity to try my hand at drifting, something I've only ever thought about doing, and never really tried. The challenge included a car show, drag races, auto-x, and by invitation, exhibition drift competition. Nothing in the past few years has taught me more about driving. Rage2 at Beyond was generous enough to organize a couple of practice events for those of us unfamiliar with drifting the car. I had considerable difficulty at first controlling the car. I often spun out mid-corner, or was forced to hand-brake to get the car to rotate on entry. With help from others, I learned a lot about how to gently work the car. I often braked too hard causing understeer, turned in too sharply, or simply entered too fast. [...]
Disclaimer: Right off the bat, lets get this straight. I am not skilled. Don’t think I’m building myself up. I couldn’t qualify in FD. I just think about this stuff… and in some ways, I think I’m a little unique. Read. When you talk to the really good people these days, they tell you how they were first exposed to […]
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