Ok so I apologize about not having written this up earlier. I have been busy. No, I mean it, I have been busy. So anyway here is what happened to our heroes since the last episode.

There were two major comps this month. Our 2nd major comp went down on the 18th of this month. It was a good time albeit very hot. The heat I think drove away some of the drivers from the comp but we did have a decent turnout. It was pushing the 100 degree plus mark and the EZUps could only do so much to shield us all from that blazing hydrogen bomb in the sky. Most of the major players were there and some new ones. We gained a new player from the depths of the east coast. 716UTIM3 joined the comp at the last minute and made a good showing. When all was said and done everything went down as follows:

Round 2 Qualify Points

1st JustSideWayz 5 Points
2nd J-M250 3 Points
3rd mtz88 1 Point

Round 2 Comp results

1st mtz88 10 points
2nd WDJ 8 points
3rd JustSiDeWayz 6 points
4th WallysWorld 5 points
5th J-M250 4 Points
6th RobsRacing 3 points
7th 4nspeed 2 points
8th Ddriftit 1 point

Standings after round 2

1st JustSiDeWayz 21 points
2nd J-M250 14 points
3rd mtz88 11 points
3rd WallyWorld 11 points
5th RobsRacing 10 points
6th WDJ 9 points
7th DDJ 8 points
8th Envyuno 5 Points
9th DaTNiS916 3 points
10th 4nspeed 2 points
11th Ddriftit 1 point
11th Stupidgiggers 1 point

Who would have figured mtz88 would have taken it. What the hell does mtz88 mean anyway?

Comp Results:

1 Ariel - 20 pts
2 Rob - 18 pts
3 Eric - 16pts
4 Jimmy-14 pts
5 Nelly - 12 pts
6 Mark - 10 pts
7 Jimmy G - 9 pts
8 Neil - 8 pts
9 Jeremy - 4 pts
10 Chris - 3 pts
11 Matt- 2 pts
12 Wes - 2 pts
13 Ryan - 2 pts
14 Rich P. - 2 pts
15 Bihn - 2 pts
16 Edison - 2 pts

Current Standings after 2 Rounds

1 Ariel 34pts
2 Eric 34pts
3 Nelly 21pts
4 Nick 21pts
5 Chris 19pts
6 Rob 19pts
7 Jeremy 16pts
8 Jimmy W 16pts
9 Ryan 12pts
10 Mark 11pts
11 Jimmy G 10pts
12 Neil 10pts
13 Steve 9pts
14 Jah Mike 5pts
15 Rich P. 5pts
16 Matt 3pts
17 James 3pts
18 Wes 3pts
19 JR 3pts
20 Edison 3pts
21 Albert 3pts
22 Bihn 3 pts

Ok…so right now there is a tie for 16th place. There’s 1 more round, so if there’s still a tie, there will be a wild card drift-off during the round 4 (finals). Right now, Matt has the advantage since his qualifying scores are the highest of the 4 guys after 2 rounds…thus, he would be seeded #1 in the drift off.

Round 3 will be the make-it-or-break-it round. So you guys that are sitting on the fence can still take a spot in the top 8 if you place high enough.

There might be a change to the round 3. A handful of guys might not be able to make it, so we might push it to either August 22, or September after the FD event.

It was an awesome event. Unlike the the Sacramento weather for our comp the Freemont weather was nice. Around the mid 70s. We all set up our EZ Ups out in the parking lot of the mall that contained HobbyTown USA Freemont.

I would like to say thank you to Hyperdrift Norcal and to HobbyTown USA who have always been great to us. We have always had great luck and support from HobbyTown USA. In Freemont and Folsom HobbyTown USA have been great. This hobby shop had a great vibe to it as well. As I looked around you could find not only a great selection of hobby products and a friendly staff but tables apon tables of people playing collectible card games and a section in the back for the little kids to play. Great showing guys.

So needless to say this month has been busy and I don’t see any sign of it letting up. This is a good thing though. We will get through it one exhibition at a time from one drift to the next.

-MCtrlSys

Well, it finally happened. We had our first serious comp. For the most part it went off without a hitch. Starting up at about 7:30 AM the group had plenty of time to practice. The group is starting to look somewhat professional now. There were banners for manufacturers everywhere including a new one for Team WickedWays and the group banner which was flying from the drivers stand. If that weren’t enough there were banners flying for HPI Racing, Hot Bodies and Fast Track Hobbies. There were new types of drift cars running as well. Team Stockton and myself were running counter-steer cars and in fact DDJ took 2nd place with one. Of course Imperious Leader (JustSideways) took first. Being the good sport that he is he took the prizes that he won and gave them to the less fortunate drifters. As with all of the William Land Park meets that we have had previously there was great food all around. A big thank you to all of the ladies that provided and of course the guys who did as well. DDJ provided Sushi :). After everything was said and done the end result was as follows:

Qualify Points

1st) —— RobsRacing —- 5 Points
2nd) —–  J-M250 ——- 3 Points
3rd) —–  WDJ———– 1 Point

Comp results

1st) —–  JustSideWayz —- 10 Points
2nd) —– DDJ ———— 8 Points
3rd) —–  WallysWorld —– 6 Points
4th) —–  Envyuno ——– 5 Points
5th) ——  J-M250 ——-  4 Points
6th) —— DaTNiS916 —– 3 Points
7th) —— RobsRacing —– 2 Points
8th) —— Stupidgiggers — 1 Point

Standings after round 1

1st) —— JustSideWayz —- 10 Points
2nd) —– DDJ ———— 8 Points
3rd) —— J-M250 ——– 7 Points
3rd) —– RobsRacing —— 7 Points
5th) —– WallysWorld —— 6 Points
6th) —– Envyuno ——— 5 Points
7th) —– DaTNiS916 ——- 3 Points
8th) —– Stupidgiggers —– 1 Point
8th) —– WDJ ————- 1 Point

Thank you to Cool_Rolla and Hyper-Drift for this one.

-MCtrlSys

Well here is a first. It seems that 4 of our members decided to go down to Anaheim and compete in the RCX competition. Honestly I really didn’t even know there was a drift competition happening down there. Well I was surprised when the next day after the show I find out that two of our members came back in 6th and 7th place. I know it doesn’t sound like much but this wasn’t a little meet. It was one put on by HPI at one of the biggest RC shows there is in the US. They were competing against members of Touge Knights, D-Style and Team Arai and a bunch of others. The two that took 6th and 7th were Datsun710 and Glenn4Speed. We are ecstatic as they are the first 2 members to place in any drift competition anywhere. Finally our name is on the drift map as it were. I would like to congratulate all of the members of our group that went out there to compete and scream a mighty viking yalp from the top of Mt. Akina…….

Yalp!!!!

-MCtrlSys

RCX 2010 Images Here: http://drift916.5gigawattlizard.info/media/archive/RCX%202010/

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.

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.