So for the northeast stop of our 2009 season Formula Drift went back to Wall Stadium. Wall was closing down last year so Formula Drift was forced to find a new venue last minute, which is why we went to Englishtown, NJ for the first time. Wall re-opened its doors and asked Formula Drift to come back and put on “the best show of the year!”. Our team dug through our notes and pulled up our 2007 setup for the rocky road ride that is Wall Stadium.

We arrived on Thursday with plans to get some good practice in for the weekend. Kevin and Sergio got the car all ready to go, I watched a few cars take to the track, then headed back and jumped in the car. The first few runs were pretty good. Decently high on the bank, finding the line through the lower section, just feeling really good. Then the rain came. It started coming down pretty hard, so we headed back to the trailer. We checked the weather and see that it is scheduled to rain the rest of the day, and all day Friday. We agreed to go back out on track and prepare the car for a rain setup since it appeared that we were going to have to qualify in the rain. This was the most I had ever driven my car in the rain/wet at this point. We were doing fine on the course, the car was adapting to the wet conditions very well due to the Maxxis Z1 tires.

Friday morning we roll into the track to torrential downpours! All the drivers were talking together as we watched two cars go out on course. There was standing water everywhere, and a thunderstorm that was headed right for us. The cars could barely make it around the track, the standing water literally broke front bumpers in half. After a few rescheduled drivers meetings, Formula Drift makes the decision to postpone all driving until Saturday, as the weather appeared to be sunny all day on Saturday. So now we had to do all qualifying AND Top 32 tandem in one day! Talk about long day!

Finish Reading Chris Forsberg’s Blog Post on Formula D Wall: http://www.chrisforsberg.com/blog/2009/06/10/formula-drift-diaries/

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