More Info On DriftCon 1

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I copied down all of the information that DJ722 put up so here is the rundown.

Registration Deadline is March 5th 2010, PM DJ722 at www.hyperdrift.com to pay for the 20 dollar entry fee.

Rules:

Motor: Open
Tires: T-Drifts only. No LPs, Type A’s, mini-cup T-drifts, ABS, etc.
Body: 1/10 touring only
Chassis: 1/10th touring only.

The comp will follow D1 Japan format. Each driver will get 1 qualifying run where they will be scored based on clipping points (e.g. boxes). There will be no practice runs during qualifying. Qualifying scores will determine bracket position for tandems (e.g. lowest qual score runs against highest).

During tandems you will be judged based on the following:

-Line
-Angle
-Coming in (chaser)
-Distance (leader)

During tandems, judges will take into consideration how well you hit the marked clipping points. That’s right, unlike in the past, you’ll still need to hit your clips. So even if you pull a car length on the chaser, your speed will not mean anything if you take bad lines and angles. Same applies to passing.

Passing: Passing is allowed provided that it’s legit (lead car takes wide line, lead car spins out, etc). Passing is not an necessarily an automatic win, but does help the chaser. Note on passing. The judges know a legit pass when they see one. So don’t just bum-rush the lead car. USE YOUR HEAD and think about when to pass. Style and control and huge, so don’t forget that.

Noob drifters comping, if you have any questions ASK! The veterans will be out at sessions and we can show you. :D

To all drifters. The judges will do their best to be as accurate as possible. But don’t forget that we’re doing this for FUN and for the movement. None of us our perfect. However, I will DQ a driver for consistently arguing/yelling at the judges. That type of attitude will not be tolerated.

Final registration is coming soon. So stay tuned. Looks like we’ll have about 20 drivers.

Schedule:

6pm-6:30pm : Check-in, driver orientation (shouldn’t take long). No track time during this.
7pm-8pm : Open practice. Practice will be 20 mins long and broken into groups so that there isn’t too many people on the track at once.
8pm : qualifying.
9pm: Tandems. Class Omega (beginner) first, then Class Alpha (Intermediate).

New Notes:

Instead of having a beginner and intermediate qualifying rounds, we will have 1 qualifying round. All drivers will run a single qualifying run. Based on score, the top 16 drivers will compete against each other in the “Alpha” class. The rest of the drivers will run against each other in the “Omega” class.
Brackets will be created based on score (highest score takes on the lowest score in the first run and so forth).

Qualifying round will be 1 run only. No practice run. You will be judged on how well you hit scoring zones (e.g. angle and line, and how far in the scoring zone).

Tandem battles will be the same format.

Hyper-Drift’s DriftCon 1 (3-27-10)

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Well it finally happened. A real competition for us to actually attend. We wont all be going but alot of us will to represent the Central Valley and NorCal. Hyper-Drift from Hawaii has created a section here based out of San Jose. At the moment the section is being headed up by DJ722 who is actually a part of our forum now as well as some of us being a part of theirs. (http://www.hyperdrift.com). We have also allied with them. We were offered to be under the Hyper Drift banner but we decided that we had been doing this for long enough to want to keep the name. The offer was appreciated but we wanted to keep our identity. Well that aside we are going to this competition. We would like to thank everyone involved in this as we know that this is alot of work and effort. The comp will be on Sunday March 27th at 7pm inside of San Jose’s Fast Pace Racing. The contact information is:

Fast Pace Racing

Fast Pace Racing, 2050 Concourse Drive, San Jose, CA 95131, (408) 943-8283

http://www.fastpaceracing.com

Hyper-Drift

http://www.hyperdrift.com

1:10 Sacramento Drift Network

http://www.onetensacdrift.net

See Ya There!

-MCtrlSys


Drifting Isn’t Just For Degenerates Anymore.

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JDMBucks AE86 Drifter With Emergency Drift Bicycles On The Roof.

JDMBucks AE86 Drifter With Emergency Drift Bicycles On The Roof.

JDMBuck shows that Drifting isn’t just for the criminally insane anymore. Not only does this shell look amazing but the bikes really show a creative bent. This is an amazing body and I am sure we will be seeing more from JDMBuck soon.

-MCtrlSys

One Ten Sac Drift Net Member Tests To Destruction.

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It seems during one of our recent practices that one of our members (WallysWorld) took it apon himself to see just how much abuse a standard Team Associated TC3 Chassis could take. So what did he do you ask? Did he logically progressively start driving it faster and through more intense sessions? Did he use sensors and computers to measure the stress being put on the chassis during a race? No to both. No, what he did was launch the chassis at full speed off of a 4 story parking garage! What was the result you ask? Well beyond Wally’s heart exploding in his chest and soiling himself the car landed and just kept on going. DAMN! Next time you decide to test a chassis like this you really should give us all some warning eh?

Demo, Hobbytown USA, Folsom, CA

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Well it looks like the Hobbytown Demo went off without a hitch.

Given there were no models other than the glue together kind but it was still fun. We drifted out there from about 8am to 5 or

Focus... Focus... CRAP!!!

Focus... Focus... CRAP!!!

JDMBuck fends off the rabid shoppers.

JDMBuck fends off the rabid shoppers.

6pm. We actually outlasted the swap meet by at least 4 hours. A number of different people showed up and as always were utterly fascinated by the fact that these little cars were acting in total denial of the laws of physics. People apparently cant quite fathom that cars can drive sideways. As always the major fans of our demo were the kids who came by. For some reason the hobby totally enthralls all children. Kinda like Gamera. The Folsom area allthough it was a great demo is still a bit off-road centric which I can understand given the area. Given that fact we really sold nothing that we were trying to sell at the swap meet. Oh well back to ebay and craigslist. Overall as Justsidewayz noted this demo was “Off The Hook” (I hate ebonics). I just hope that our next demo is a car show because I really miss the models.

-MCtrlSys

When did we get all of these cars?

Holy F***ing A**Crackers!

Holy F***ing A**Crackers!

1:10 Sacramento Drift Network’s 1st Anniversary.

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Well it kinda snuck up on us. One year ago (August 30th 2008) 3 guys got together to drift. Little did any of them know that a year later we would be going as strong as we are. In one year we gained many practice locations, did two exhibitions for car shows, one TV spot, Have met individuals from 3 other clubs (Drift EZ, Team Redline & Colorado Drift), and have grown membership wise by leaps and bounds. Hell we even got one of the hobby shops here to accept us and start bringing in drift parts. And you know what? We had a damn good time doing it! We would like to thank everyone who put up with us along the way. To PXRacing/Takastyle, the Phatephex Girls, Endless Motoring, Drift EZ, all of the people who own our practice spots, Channel 31, and especially all of our wives and girlfriends who dealt with our obsession. What now? Well I guess we will just keep doing what we are doing and take it as it comes. We have arrived.

-MCtrlSys

Endless Motoring Car Show Exhibition July 04, 2009

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Well, another car show has come and gone. I apologize that I haven’t written anything about this meet for a while. We weren’t all there that day as it was the Forth of July and a number of the members have families. There were 3 of us there all day and as the day went on more showed up and some stayed for a pack or two and it was still well worth the time. 

As usual JDMBuck was a part of the actual car show with his tricked out Honda Civic Hatch and the rest of us watched the booth and drifted. The show was a smaller show but well worth it. The fine ladies from Phat Ephex were at this show as well and did another shoot with our tiny little cars.

Nothing much different from the last show but it was definitely for a good cause. It was a show to help keep Endless Motoring out there and tuning our imports.  

Sacramento Drift Network On Good Day Sacramento

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Well I thought we would never get to this point but here we are. Channel 31 Good Day Sacramento did a piece on us. The whole thing was fun. We showed up at the Channel 13/31 building around 6:30 and set up. About an hour later the news people gave us the heads up that they would be out in a few minutes. The crew in attendance was just enough, as it seems we might have been pushing it with more members. The cameraman and anchor Nick Toma came out and started the news story. It seems that when we showed up there was a breaking story that they needed to cover, so we didn’t get as much time as we thought. No big. Justsidewayz was interviewed while we all drifted the track and Justsidewayz brought Nick up to speed (No pun intended) as to what it was all about. At the end Nick decided to try one of the drift cars out just once to see what drifting involved. He proceeded to spin in place 3 times and hit the wall. After this he gave up. TYLORD attempted to give Nick the 30 second drift lesson as well as could be expected. Great try. We have to face it, anchormen are not nessecarily drift gurus out of the box. It was all done as quickly as it started but it was great to get some airtime. Thanks to Nick, his cameraman and the rest of Channel 31 for giving us a bit of their time and airplay. Also thanks to the group for putting on a great show. I don’t think it could have gone better.

-MCtrlSys

Exhibition: 6/14/09 - Car Show & Meet @ RPM, Rancho Cordova

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Well the 14th went by like a tornado hitting a trailer park (chuckles under breath). We didn’t have a whole lot of time to prepare for doing an exhibition for a car show but we pulled it off. First I would like to thank JDMBuck and the hosts of the show for getting us in and letting us run. Allthough we only had three parking spots to do our exhibition I would say that the session went off without a hitch. A good amount of the crew showed up to help out and the feel of the meet was hyper-stimulating to say the least. I am still recovering as I would think the others are as well. The whole thing was an awesome experience and we recieved more publicity than we have ever gotten at any of our sessions.

Justsidewayz, Datsun710 and myself (MCtrlSys) showed up around 7:30 in the morning to set up and make sure we had a spot to reside in. The overhead and the track went up quick and I would say that the cars started to come in about 8am. The amount of and quality of the cars that came in were awesome. Unlike a typical muscle-car show the kinds of cars that came in ranged from Dodge V8-12 cylinder units to 1 cylinder powered bicycles. Also adorning the cars were a handful of models brought in from a number of areas for the photo-shoots and4-5 “go-go dancers” doing their thing up at the front end of the lot. Very unlike our normal practices in the parks and schoolyards. 

Once we were all set up we started to drift the track we had set up in the minimal space we had been given. It was difficult but not impossible. As the show went on more and more people would stand outside of the track watching. Not only kids (although sometimes they are the most devoted to watching) but a number of adults stood at the side of the track for long periods of time as well. In fact we had a number of photographers taking pictures watching and taking pictures with everything from small compact cameras to full professional setups. This wasn’t the scenario of somebody stopping for a minute and commenting how “cute” they look. This was utter fascination. TYLORD came in about half was through the session to drop of some DriftRC Magazines and some drift stickers to hand out. Thank you TYLORD. It filled out out front display table and furthered the interest. 

We attempted to keep the track from becoming to chaotic during the show but that worked about as well as it always does. By the time we were really into it there were 5 cars on the postage stamp sized track at once. One of us tried to keep the display table manned as much as possible and there were a great deal of questions to answer. Most of all was the, “How much does it cost to get into this?”. As always that answer is never quite as simple as it may have seemed. Introducing a bunch of hardcore tuners to something this technically intricate was probably like throwing meat to Hyenas but we enjoyed the hell out of it. 

As time went on and all of the cars settled in we found out how amazing the turnout really was. They had crammed hundreds of cars into this little parking lot. Teams and individuals from a number of areas had shown up to show off their cars. Most of the cars were of the JDM persuasion but there were a number of American and European manufactured cars as well. Nissan 240sx, S15, S13, 300ZXs, Infinity G35s, Lexus SC430, IS300s, Mazda RX-7 (FD-3S), RX8, Toyota Sprinters, Matrix (No Supras though), Dodge Vipers, SRT4s, Datsun 510s, BMW M3 GTR, Honda Civics, Accords, Acura Integras (Of course), and the list goes on. 

I think the highlight of the day was when DoinItMovin707 retrieved for us a group of the models onsite to pose with our cars. He seems to be the only one with the suave to do it. Thanks dude. We had two groups of models during the day pose with our cars so that we had something to brag about till the end of time. All I have to say is that we had some very happy RCs that day. Thankfully most of us have very supportive and understanding wives. Thanks ladies. Oh and a big thank you to the models who thought enough of us to pose with our tiny little cars. (No thats not a joke)

Overall we finished our outing at around 4pm and packed up our stuff. The exhibition that we put on was a total success in my eyes. We were able to interact and explain what we did to a great number of people. The vibe at that place was incredible. The people were awesome and we enjoyed the whole process more than we could possibly ever describe. Being totally immersed in car culture while bringing our own little piece of it to the crowd was more than we could have ever hoped for and we hope to have the chance to do it all again.

- MCtrlSys

1:TEN Sacramento Drift Network Is On The Air.

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1:TEN Sacramento Drift Network

1:TEN Sacramento Drift Network

Hey, Welcome to the blog for 1:TEN Sacramento Drift Network. We have been down for a while but it has been reactivated. It has been around a year since the inception of what would be 1:TEN-S.D.N. and we just made it through our first big event. The event consisted of a competition some practice time and lots and lots of hanging out in a park on a great cool day and relaxing. This meet although we did have our first competition was more symbolic and less serious. There were trophies to be had and respect to be earned.

The old Drift 916 site is gone now as after the name change and all of the upgrades that have happened I figured it was time to start over. We are now 1:TEN - S.D.N. (Sacramento Drift Network). I also cut out the tech site as it has been absorbed into the forum. Moving our site from Drifter Central to here was a bit of work but it went better than we could have hoped for. We lost some of our contacts due to the move but gained a bunch more in the process.

The site itself has been divided into three parts for now. The Blog (Our main page which is meant for the rest of the universe), Our Forum (Meant for the members to meet and exchange information) and Chat (Meant for the same as the Forum but is actually meant to take some of the stress off of the forum). So far it all seems to be working just fine.

On this site you will see what we do and who we are. If you decide to stay then you will have to go to http://drift916.5gigawattlizard.info/forum/ and register. After this is done you must introduce yourself on the Introductions Forum at which point we will activate your account. This process keeps spammers out and makes sure that only those in the area are using the space. Its not that we don’t want to hear from others it is just too much for the forum to handle if we let everyone in.

On that note Please enjoy the site and we hope that you will find RC Drift appealing enough to start the hobby for yourself.

- MCtrlSys, Webmin (1:TEN - S.D.N.)