Another great event put on by the staff at Southeast Drift. The weather was just about perfect for a day of drifting, with temperatures unusually low for august. This gave drivers piece of mind, knowing that there cars would run a bit cooler while getting abused on the track. The cones were set up and the rubber was ready to be laid.

Practice went on throughout the day, so the drivers could get comfortable with the track layout, and the other participants.

As Chad Lunn and I arrived to the event, one of the first practice tandem runs was going down. The sound of stressed out tires, and cars bouncing off the rev-limiter was a familiar sound. As the cars entered and exited the apex’s a few cones were tossed, as drivers pushed there limits on the late entries.

Above credit: Chad Lunn

Even a few unlucky drivers lost some body parts, nothing some zip ties can’t fix. There was only one other accident of the day, when the white 24o above got tangled up with the turbo mustang, saw it from a distance so I can’t tell you exactly what happened, but it was minor. With just a small dent, I would say that the staff of southeast drift did an professional job making sure everyone stayed safe and that no one was hurt this weekend.

Yoshi was tearin’ it up as always, some one needs to get this guy a cage so he can participate in the tandem. His car may not be as powerful as the other guys but he sure can carry a drift through.

For a real smoke show call this guy. We first saw this team at the DG Trials event last year as some of you may recall.

The adrenaline xxx car had suffered some battle damage, but it just adds character. The neon green wheels where awesome, and contrasted well with the blue paint.

Above Credit: Chad Lunn

Foerst Motorworks also brought the smoke show, making sure all the spectators got a breath full of tire smoke.

Above Credit: Chad Lunn

As the day wore on a few competitors had some issues, but nothing out of the ordinary. Blowin’ tires, popped intercooler piping, etc.; it comes with the territory.

Above Credit: Chad Lunn

There were a few mustangs joining in the sideways action as well, there’s always a couple, but this weekend there were close to ten. The one above was running a turbo kit and did pretty well for himself. Good ole’ American torque will fill the sky with clouds of smoke.

Above photo credit: Chad Lunn

Godzilla also made an appearance all wheel drive cars can make it even more challenging to pull off a drift, but he ended up pulling a couple of clean runs off.

Taking aim for the apex.

In between runs and cooling off.

Generation 3 camaro out for one of his first events I believe. A few more events and more seat time should do him some good.

My favorite car from the event and quite possibly one of my favorite S14’s out there. It had a VQ swap out of a G35, and was boosted with a procharger set up. Ensuring that the tires would go up in smoke, and set the world ablaze.

As time slipped away for the day, the competitors were ready and the stage was set for the real competition to get underway.

Chad got much better pictures of the event than I did, I was severely limited by lens, below are both of our slideshows.

ZacCarter:

Chad Lunn:

Event results can be viewed here. Our photo galleries for the events are here and here.

Also we are starving artists and if you would like prints of any of the shots in our galleries please contact us: Zac Carter or Chad Lunn

We can do 13″x19″ in house. Larger sizes are available through our vendors.

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