Rhys Millen and Ross Petty do battle at the Old Wall Speedway

Not to long ago Wall Speedway was home of Drifting in the the northeast and I have to admit I miss this track dearly. While going through some archived footage we dug up this awesome tandem battle with Ross Petty and Rhys Millen from the 2007 Formula D first round of Top 16. Ross Petty spent the WHOLE time before the run revving and doing burnouts at Rhys. They rolled off the bank and Ross Petty smashed right into him resulting in a zero score for him. Rhys came back and responded with some aggressive tandem right back at him. What a great race these two guys had at the Old Wall Speedway.

After finally arriving at the track we enjoyed a few practice sessions with the Drifters at the racetrack.

Forest Wang and Tony Angelo ripped up during practice at Autodromo Monterrey.

Justin Pawlak was driving so hard he just shattered his bumper square in the middle of the track coming into the infield.

After we got back it was raining in downtown Monterrey. Here is a view from our hotel window.

A look at night outside our hotel room over Montterey, Mexico.

So we landed a day after all the Formula D staff on Friday early morning around 9am. With everyone at the track we decided to brave a taxi cab ride for the 41 miles it took to get to the track. A 41 mile (1 hour) taxi cab ride cost roughly $27.50 American. It was safe to say our taxi driver had been taking “mind altering substances” before driving us through Monterrey. His old Dodge Neon 4 door had a grinding 2nd gear and he took off from a stop by revving his car to redline (around 7k) and slipping the clutch all the way till the car returned back to redline. I don’t have as many pics of this adventure because I didn’t bring my point/shoot in order to keep my travel gear low. I just brought a book bag for the whole weekend in Mexico. Anyways, on the the way to the track here are some places we drove past while traveling through Monterrey. Our cabbie also had to ask for directions over four times to find the race track.

Sleepless in Seattle was definitly now the team’s case over this past weekend. All it did was RAIN RAIN RAIN but don’t worry, our waitress assured us that the local Seattle area gets about 60 days of sunshine a year. Not only did it rain virtually all night it rained during the Formula D main event as well.

It was however a busy weekend at the track for PM Lifestyle. We produced an internal video for Mobil 1 that talked to the teams that trust Mobil 1 with their motors ever week. We shot the new cover for Issue 6 at the event on Saturday morning and also took the photography to produce a new advertisement for Disc Brakes Australia.

To make Seattle more exciting the 405 was closed over the weekend! For you local northwesterns you know that is a recipe for disaster. So other than some late night airport runs and Denny’s we didn’t get ourselves into to much trouble. Just sat back and watched the Olympics at the good ol Hilton in Bellevue. So I deceided to showcase some of my favorite snaps from the Seattle weekend that I took.

Myself and Jayke are gearing up currently for Formula D Mexico which we depart in like 10 days for, so be ready for Mexican Sombrero Hostel Parties!