the drift event was lots of fun for me. except for the part where me and mr migs had to travel down a bumpy ass road to McDonalds to get food for everyone at the signal tent haha, its not easy trying to drive over a bumpy messed up road construction area while trying to keep from spilling 8 sodas, hehe. but yeah the event was great, and orido really kicked ass. the supra didnt seem to be the easiest car to drift with, cuz i noticed even orido spun the thing while trying to get it going sideways. and watching orido finally pull off a -decent- drift in the Lug Nut car was awesome! haha, that car seemed almost impossible to hold sideways because of the miniscule wheelbase. Adey, were you in the stands? cuz where i was, there seemed to be a pretty decent amount of cheering going on, at least toward the end of the event around the last couple elimination rounds. and in the finals on ernie's 2nd run where he drifted pretty much the entire first banked turn and carried it downhill to the other set, damn that was amazing, and the crowd seemed to recognize it too and was cheering.
congratulations to alex, andy, and ernie for doing an awesome job in the finals!! it must have been very tough to judge, because i watched over my video of the final rounds and i think any one of them could have won, they all kicked major ass. Andy seemed to be the only one who ran very consistently for his final 2 runs (both of which were near perfect!), but he didnt seem to be able to carry out the same hi speed drifting as Alex did. and Ernie, man, he just kicked ass! his first run was a little off because he swung the 2nd turn wide and clipped a cone, but his second run was amazing! drifting the entire first hi-speed turn and then coming within inches of the wall at the 2nd to last turn right in front of the judges!! great stuff. and Alex did an amazing job in the silver corolla, and the times he spun looked like he might have been distracted by the positioning of Orido's car in relation to the line that alex was trying to run, but aside from the spins in his second run his drifting was buttery smooth and very fast! overall it was such an awesome competition and a really good showing for the California drift crowd, the competitors seem to be getting exponentially better with each drift event! keep it up!
