Randomly during the year, Just Drift and BH (brian harte) host a 2 day event at WSIR in the lovely Rosamond desert called ALL STAR BASH. It’s the least serious event in drifting, fun, food, nighttime sleep over party with 100 people, games, wii, dirtbikes, and oh yeah, drifting. This was my 3rd all star bash, kids came from the NW, Colorado, Utah, Mexico, and Florida for this one! Awesome! Some broad even came from Australia. We ran balcony the first day, and Horse Theif Mile the second day. fun fun fun!
View of the campers from up on the hill…. (i know its blurry,you get the idea)
And then we party………….. party…..
This lil guy fell asleep, he was super tired.
Look at this sleepy lil guy too, It was a long day, in the hot sun.
After NJ FD, i had a chance to go hang out with New Hampshire gang for a few days, super-relaxing-fun time, all the time!
The Tuerck’s have the funnest house ever, pool, harleys, they have a FIRE POLE that goes from the 2nd floor into the basement! NH is beautiful, the lakes, and small roads, and tree canopies are amazing. All we did was kick it, ride motorbikes, hop in the pool, bbq, ride the fire pole, and got some tattoo work done by dave(edge). House party at the house the first night, tons of fun and food, and everybody dropping R’s.
Philly to NH flight takes about an hour and ten minutes, awesome~~~~~!!!
Went to spyglass tattoo, and had a bitchin soda, its sooo good.
Kate says this soda is number one! She wears pretty flowers in her hair.
mid-house party carbomb break at top of the hill.
Back up the box truck to the pool so we can……..
Partycity!!!!!!!!!
Team Snakebite 4ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next day…………….. tattoos with dave and roll to Philly!!
Acting tough, no pain!
final product.. been about 2 years waiting for color, happy to have it finished!
I am a blog slacker. I’ve been meaning to report on all the fun things that happened since we left off. It’s been such a daunting task, because there is so much to tell, that I’ve been procrastinating getting started. That stops now! I want to get this info out to everyone in the electronic wonderland that is the internet, so i’ve decided that i’ll be doing 10 min blog entries, and more and more of them. Here goes!
FD NJ
Formula D NJ was great, as you may know, i hadn’t made top 16 at the first 2 FD events, and that was not part of our plan for 2008. We were very disappointed after the Atlanta event, and worked really hard on the Rx-8, making major suspension changes, to make the car fast, and to make it smoke! John at JIC, and Kevin “the wizard” Wells, both had a hand in changing the car before FD, and we went into the event with high hopes!
The track was HUGE, 4th gear clutch kick entries, to a giant link, and then power through in 3rd gear. It took a day to figure out gearing, and spring rates that would let the car get around the course properly. We qualified like 5th on the Friday, and felt pretty good, scores were higher than they’ve been recently. Saturday found us feeling good, and driving hard. I would post up a 92.5 for top 16, which placed me 12th! woo hoo! All 4 DA guys made the top 16 for the first time ever, and in front of a massive hometown crowd. I had to run the JIC’/Hankook rocketship that they have stuck a Porsche badge on, consistently the fastest car at the track, I just went for broke from the get go. After the first set of runs, i was up 12-11, and we had to run a one more time. We w0und up hitting the clip, and Tyler advanced to Top8. All in all, a very successful weekend, and leaves us wanting more from Las Vegas. After the event, i was able to head to New Hampshire for a few days of fun with the Tuercks, and we screened the DA DVD for a packed house in Philly, which was lots of fun. Both of those blogs to come!
NJ pics
Sometimes I have no idea what I’m doing in my race car.
Leaving this morning for the NEW new jersey round of Formulad. I am so excited to run this new course at E-town Raceway Park. It looks fast and awesome. It’s about time we got to run a course in the Northeast that will show real speed and drifting excitement. I’ll be trying to get some top 16 points for the first time this year, we’ve been working on the car between rounds, trying to make it a bit faster, thanks JIC, for susp tuning help….. check it out..operation make smoke!
See you in Jersey!!!!!!
Also check out how i felt about the old NJ track in my DriftZone episode that just came out…
My time is usually taken up dealing with sponsors, handling travel arrangements, entry forms, parts orders, planning test time, and actually driving my race car. I was able to steal away for a long weekend of fun in the sun at Mr Forsbergs sweet new pad. 2 Days of BBQ, Mariokart wii (it is amazing, i can not stop playing), Croquet!, and board games. We screened our DVD sunday night, JT hadnt seen it, and it is still the best Drift DVD everrr! I’m still super proud of this DVD, everything I have read online is great, people really seem to love it. I didnt know this, but croquet is intense. You get to smash around a hammer, and totally screw over other players. I had an awesome time! Thanks to Forsberg for having us………here are some pics!
Heres Lindsay, Michelle and Chris, locked in a heated Mariokart battle!! It’s so intense that Dai yosh has to look away, and seek comfort from JT Whareau (new zealand badass drift racer, trying to make it big in the states, good guy, more on him later www.jtdrift.com ). Far right, Hair Brian is entranced by the action on the TV!
Dai and Chris, 5 yrs in the states, and somehow Dai is still a super FOB.
Mike Groh gets serious with croquet.
This is what happens when Pete and lindsay wanna play Wii at the same time. Wii virtual real life fighting tournament.
Hair Brian just had to put on his new wedding dress and model it for us. He’s very excited about his upcoming nuptials. He worked for weeks to fit into that thing, and he’s going to make some lucky man very happy.
Pete Varleys face when we showed him Stay Hungry , the new DA DVD. Note the anguish and deep self-loathing. (pete made our first dvd, Bad as Hell)
It looks like I’ve got a blog on the wrecked magazine super awesome drifting website. I will use this space to do the usual car, team, stats, FD, Demos updates, as well as keep everyone updated on what the hell is going on in the drift world. I plan on keeping it real as hell, and I’ll try to make this fun to read. I’ve just returned to CA after the ATL FD event, (our new DVD premiered, www.driftalliance.com, its awesome, buy it, and if you dont love it, you might be retarded.) I’ll be making changes to my mega-awesome RX-8 before NJ, and trying to get some points on the board before I lose my mind. Join me in my fight against the tyrannical overlords of American drifting, and maybe we will have some fun along the way.
Tony A
PS- Joey, Get serious with this ^^^^ photo at the top of the page, its like 2 years old, one car doesnt exist anymore, and its snoozetown! lets get something good up there!!!!!!!!!!
Kate says this soda is number one! She wears pretty flowers in her hair.
mid-house party carbomb break at top of the hill.
