DMCC West Round 3 - 2010

Eyo.

Yesturday I went to Castrol Raceway to watch the Drift Mania Canadian Championship drifting event, which was my first real taste of the Canadian dori scene..and it's a bit different then expected.

First of all, walking in was a good treat since you can walk down through the tented area's where all of the cars are parked and being worked on, and it's true that the 240sx dominates in Canada as well. To your left...a Silvia, to your right..an Onevia. One thing I noticed while looking in on the cars was that just about all of them had the typical SR20 swap done, and they were all pretty low-powered. You'd see the traditional red-top, followed by a new turbocharger and intake system, intercooler and not much else. On average I'd guess the cars were running 280hp. Most of the cars were pretty tattered and torn with Phat Ziggity style usage of zipties, but a few people came up just to show off their pitch perfect and clean cars: Toyota Supra [Gold rims, white paint w/ carbon hood], Acura NSX [Black / chrome VIP-ish rims, white paint w/ carbon hood], Pure white Nissan Skyline R32 [Nicest car there imo - Built RB26], and a bone stock R35. Overall the pit area was basically what you could've expected. (There was a NOS tent handing out free drinks, twoot twoot)

3oclock and the event starts: the cars all come out, line up, driver / car introductions happen with the eye catching DMCC girls, the cars all go back, and the drifting begins!

It started off pretty clean in the beginning with some pretty good runs, but even after the first few tandems the day went sour. Cars started spinning, gripping, even crashing. I only think that 1, maybe 2 tandems didn't involve spinouts through the entire day, and we saw more "One more time"'s happen after each go. I have to say that Angus Franks or "The Mad Scientist" put on quiet the show in his S12 (yes, 12) after banging up the cones, smashing his rear light off on a barrier and finishing his run with the Boot wide open! The driver of the GTO then showed us the power of V8 drifting going against a Silvia in what was the ugliest set of drift runs all day. I swear they were almost ready to go for a 5th and 6th time, as each one of them spun out when the other didn't. I have to say that the GTO either seemed really hard to control, or the driver was simply running it too hard and pushing out >too< much power to be able to make a steady drift. I won't fail to mention the oldest driver of the bunch who was riding in a red RX-7 FD, who in my opinion displayed the most skill out of the bunch.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to stay after they had rounded down the final 4, but I would've really loved to see the FD go against the Cream colored 240 - the 2 cleanest runners.

I honestly hope that the other events will be better in terms of..well, less spinning and more drifting! Overall it was a good day tho, and damn did I get a good sunburn.