The rally games was really cool. They were charging a dollar but it was worth it. It was the Swiss Alps course from GT3. It's a lot harder when you're being bounced around and not sitting still on your couch

 

I noticed that too, the Cusco subie was hella quiet. And was it me, or were the 350z's the loudest of the bunch.

 

Yup...the Zs as well as the Supras were the loudest.

On Sunday when they were rolling out the cars and then starting them up to get to the track, I was about a foot away from the rear-left fender of the Yellow Hat YMS Supra as it started up and did a burnout as it left. It was literally painfully loud. Everyone within an arm's reach from me could do nothing but cringe. But damn was it good.

 

Nah, the RX7 was the loudest, but it crashed the first night of racing during the 200km race.
It came into the pits with the front left tire horizontal and suspension toast. I don't think it made it out for Sunday races.

 

Grrr! The girl on the far left and the one on the far right are idiots. I was in the Falken lounge on Saturday evening watching the race and they were taking up 2 seats right in front of the window which wouldn't have been a big deal at all had they actually been watching the race. But no, they were sitting there watching the other car-***** out the window talking about how unfair it was that they had to wear white boots while the girls outside got pretty blue boots. I wanted to tell them to STFU and move so I could sit in their seat and watch the race.








I really need a tripod.

 

yea the 350's were pretty damn loud.

on friday watching the practice runs into the early evening, the Cusco car had it's fronts and rears glow the brightest out of everyone who went by the turn after that huge straightaway under that bridge.

i wish i had a camera for friday to capture it. it was quite a sight.

 

Get a room you two!!

 

 

And here are a bunch of Drift / D1 pics, enjoy
I'll post in 3 batches, here are the demo runs...

 

Firebert- thanks- I have the Nikon D70 and a couple of big fast lenses.

 

Rocky, I am a mere mortal in your presence.

 

hey tan,

nice nice pics...wanted to ask for your permission if i could use these pics for my d1/jgtc video that i am going to be doing...i know i have been lagging on the first d1 event held here in the states, but now i got enough footage so i am going to edit the video i took as well as include any photos i can into the footage...you got some awesome pics too, what type of lens are using for those shots?? ttyl and i saw your car, did you take off your jdm lights?

daniel

 

Daniel,

Let me know what pics you want and I can send you the full res images. That is if I can get a copy of the video

I used a Nikkor 70-200 2.8 and a Nikkor 300mm 2.8 to take most of these pictures on the new Nikon D70.

yeah I took off the jdms cause I'm planning to get a Legacy GT Wagan (maybe...).

 

More D1 Pics...





















Nice spin-out sequence

 

Hey guys here's my review:

The JGTC was unique in that along with the racing there was a drifting competition, auto-x, karting, R/C racing, and of course the car-show and vendor booths, decorated with the requisite eye-candy. They said about 45,000 people showed up, but it didn't feel that crowded. I took a bunch of pics below to share and a funny vid or three. The race cars were pretty cool, the racing was okay - not great. I did see a couple good passes as there are two classes racing - 500hp and 300hp. But with a grid of 20 cars, it was nothing compared to an ALMS race.

I saw a lot of really cool cars. My pics don't have comments, but if you see the gray 240Z with it's hood open - it has the Sylvia 2.4l 4-cyl turbo in it (20DET?) Very cool. I saw lots of Sylvia's and 350z's and four Skylines.

Cusco and Tein had booths. The suspension shot is the Cusco display model of a WRX's suspension. I sat in some cool Recaro "Speed" model seats which are a new entry-level ($400?) sport seat with tilt adjust and great support.

The pics with the hot Japanese chick and the camera crew was really funny. This Japanese camera crew was interviewing her (she's American). They hardly spoke English and asked her: "arr uu naturallll?" regarding her appendages. She said no, and monkey-boy in the race suit went nutz in Japanese. He started gesturing towards his parts like he had a 3 foot member and saying "Natural! Natural!" It was really funny.

http://www.purelyhip.com/2004_jgtc/

www.purelyhip.com/2004_JGTC/jgtcmov1.mov
www.purelyhip.com/2004_JGTC/jgtcmov2.mov
www.purelyhip.com/2004_JGTC/jgtcmov3.mov