I already posted my thoughts on the suby forum I post on
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Yes, the event sucked as a whole. A friend (up there in the industry) told me a while back that the people that run D1 are pretty disorganized... That's why things have been mixed up and they missed out on Irwindale. I was pretty annoyed at times with how everything went down... I think the schedule got as far as 2 hours behind mid day. The announcer/s did suck. I liked it alot better when Toshi was annoucing at Irwindale. He actually is into the scene and knows alot about the cars. Like Cusson said.. I would be embarrassed for the drivers from Japan that came all the way out here to drift. Bring it back to Irwindale and do it the right way! I think they might have cheaped out because some of the sponsorship money isnt there anymore. Autobacs was their main sponsor and they just went through bankrupcty.
I still had a good time with my buddies and the japanese guys put on a good show for us.
Oh and... what the hell was up with the DUB/DONK section of the show??? stupid as hell
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D1 only comes around once or twice a year to the states... FD is a nation wide event. I believe because of this more and more of the big name USA drifters are moving their focus over to FD solely because that is where the big sponsorship money is. It costs alot of money to put a car in D1 at the professional level. I don't think too many companies wanted to waiste their money on the Anaheim event. That's probably why you didn't see alot of the big name USA drivers you used to see at D1.
You could tell the crowd was a little pissed of later in the day.
I think this event turned some people away from D1 or drifting all together, and for people that know nothing about drifting and this was their first event they probably didn't think too much of drifting.
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