Ken Gushi Blogs About Formula Drift Seattle
Posted by Wrecked Magazine on 19 Jul 2010 at 07:08 pm | Tagged as: Formula D, Justin Pawlak, Ken Gushi
Ken Gushi took over his blog to talk about his battles in Seattle. The car broke a ton of parts drivetrain related but the team got Ken Gushi back out on the track and qualified 15th. He beat Cody Parkhouse in the Top 32 and then faced against Justin Pawlak in the Top 16. He talks about beating Pawlak and being told he was “too slow” which he has a great reply for. Read about all of this and his Top 8 battle with Takatori.
Read Ken Gushi’s Blog Post about Seattle: http://kenshirogushi.blogspot.com/2010/07/post-seattle-and-scion-exposed.html
A good driver have to know how to fallow the lead car, is not just go balls out when leading. If he cant follow an slower car, maybe he’s not that good of a driver.
“follow”
Ken was much faster in qualfying then he was during the battle with Justin.
Judges need to be more consistant when adressing some of these rules
E.4 COLLISIONS
Vehicle contact in drifting is something that Formula DRIFT recognizes as part of
the sport, however contact of vehicles while in head-to-head battle requires
specific rulings and guidelines as follows.
A) LEAD CAR:
The lead car must be required at all times to run the line given by the
judges and also maintain adequate speed through out the course. If the
lead car measures untypical speed, this may result in a score against that
driver. Untypical speed is defined as speeds of equivalent measurement
from qualifying speeds. Some slight variance (+5, -5) is in most cases
acceptable.
Learn how to use those brakes Justin Pawlak!
no no no. ken knew it couldn’t compete so he through the round. unfortunately this is becoming more and more common. ken could never and will never compete at this level. hell, I’d live to see him compete at the local level and see how he fares…….