July 24th AutoX: Pulling times out of nowhere (like my arse)

My former co-driver came up to me and said during our championship runs:

"Jon, I have this feeling you're gonna do the same thing you did at divisionals...."

And he was right.

There I was, behind the eight-ball and trailing in top time of class by a mere few tenths. I knew I had to nail my final run to beat my former co-driver and that is what I did; I was locked, loaded and focused and dropped my time from 70.604 to 69.614 on my fourth and final run- A WHOLE SECOND!  As my buddy Mike E. (who was there helping me with shock dampening setup) said: "Who the HELL drops and finds one second from one run to the next like that?!!!"

Apparently I do.

I won by 0.360 tenths. Take a look at this link for final results:  July 24th Championship

It's good to win but when it's that close, things are a lil too tight and uncomfortable, like a wedgie creeping up your butt.  Something must be done to spread the gap again between me and my competition. Muuhahaha... *wink wink*

FR Driving: Rear-end sliding out just a bit, trying to get the power down!

Touke Drift Event

The number "3":  A prime number...triple, trifecta, THREE'S company.  Point I'm trying to get to is that good things come in threes...or maybe not (think Terminator 3 or Aliens 3). 

The Touke Drift event on July 9th kicked off 3 straight weeks of driving events for me and what better way to do that than by getting sideways nasty with tire smoke. 

-My car in Drift Mode-

 

"You have to transition like this and then do this..."

My main job with Touke Drift is as "Instructor."  I can say that it is pretty fun and rewarding to teach newbies the ropes although it's not as easy as you'd think it'd be- there are times when you can't expect them to get it right away.  But when they do, it's great to see the look on their face and feel the positive vibe when they finally do get it.   

Most of my day was spent on instructing, staffing, directing cars, dodging the sun, and making sure that cars didn't collide in one massive heap which would not have looked beautiful to say the least...no real life twisted metal thank god.  I did get some runs in which helped me to setup my car on the new coilovers (more on that in a later blog).  So, the event passed by without that much of a hitch and everyone left happy and satisfied looking forward to the next Touke Drift event.

One BIG happy family.