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Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Saturday, 10 September 2011
BDC @ Knockhill 2011
On the 21st and 22nd of August 2011, the British Drift Championship (BDC) ventured back up to Scotland. One of the most exciting circuits in the BDC calendar due to the 100mph blind entry on the first corner. what the drivers refer to as, "Duffus Dip".
This year a total of 65 drivers made it up to Knockhill, which is an amazing amount of competitors. The anticipation was high, this was going to be an epic event.
The event started on Saturday at 1pm which was mainly the qualifying. I was late due to one of my tyre valves disintegrating on me that morning, more on that next time.
The track itself was split into the two sections. The Pros and Super Pros would do their qualifying and practise runs on the main circuit while the Semi-Pros would do their qualifying on the tri-oval. This would mean the Pros and Super-Pros would have more time on the main track.
The usual Scottish contingent was out in force as you would expect on the only Scottish track. For the Pros we had Marcin Mucha from Team Scotdrift (not team Scotland) in his Toyota Supra.
Adrian Brannan (Ade).
Only the top 8 made it through to Sunday. Ade qualified 3rd.
Another member of Team Scotdrift, Marcin Klawikowski was competing in the pro class and qualified 13th and was through to the top 16. Jarack (Jeek) Federico in his BMW 540i also managed to make it through to the twin battles to represent Scotland.
Practise day was full of surprises, mainly as some drivers have never driven on "The Hill" before. As the drivers get to grips with the track, there were always casualties. Jamie Kenyon in the SR20DET powered Miata noticeably went into the gravel trap and lost all his aero.
One of the most impressive drivers of the day was Marc Huxley in his SR20DET powered KE70 Corolla.
However he did have a bit of a run in during a drift train on the tri-oval and manage to damage the rear quarter. Lucky enough he's a panel beater by trade and fixed the damage in the pits with a hammer and a block of wood.
On Sunday I arrived early as I was due to be on the SXOC stand, which far surpassed our previous efforts if I do say so myself.
Throughout the day, Knockhill claimed more victims and more bumpers, be they semi-pro or super pro. After a brief practise the competition got under way. The Semi Pro class were up first with Matt Campling looking good qualifying first on Saturday.
Unfortunately Ade was knocked out due to mechanical failure.
In the end Sam Holt came out top and claimed first place in his S14.
The Professional class produced some of the closest competition of the day. Mark Huxley also competed in the Pro class and made it into the great 8. Jeek was knocked out in the top 16 battle against Justin Clarke in his S14. Jordan Patton was looking good through the runs in his R32 Skyline.
But Jordan was knocked out by Pete Green in his BMW E30 who went on to come second in class.
Michael Marshall drove well in his S15 throughout the day and was rewarded with the first place podium in the professional class.
In the Super Pro class, all drivers were pretty much amazing through the day. Paul "Smokey" Smith was doing his usual trick of producing lots of smoke in his S15.
Mark Luney was looking amazing as always in the SATS Cosworth Toyota Supra.
Steve Biagioni was attacking the course and was pushing really hard in every run.
Shane Lynch was also putting in consistent good runs.
The final came down to Matt Carter in his Falken sponsored S14.5 versus Mark Luney in the SATS Toyota Supra. Mark Luney however spun in both runs and handed the win to Matt Carter in the end.
The day was amazing, with so much action on track (including on the break period they had a small 1/4 mile competition). The level of drifting has been raised to a higher level than last year. I am grateful that so many competitors made it up for this Scottish round this year. I am sure if I asked any of the drivers how they found the hill…they will give their answer with a smile on their face.
This year a total of 65 drivers made it up to Knockhill, which is an amazing amount of competitors. The anticipation was high, this was going to be an epic event.
The event started on Saturday at 1pm which was mainly the qualifying. I was late due to one of my tyre valves disintegrating on me that morning, more on that next time.
The track itself was split into the two sections. The Pros and Super Pros would do their qualifying and practise runs on the main circuit while the Semi-Pros would do their qualifying on the tri-oval. This would mean the Pros and Super-Pros would have more time on the main track.
The usual Scottish contingent was out in force as you would expect on the only Scottish track. For the Pros we had Marcin Mucha from Team Scotdrift (not team Scotland) in his Toyota Supra.
Adrian Brannan (Ade).
Only the top 8 made it through to Sunday. Ade qualified 3rd.
Another member of Team Scotdrift, Marcin Klawikowski was competing in the pro class and qualified 13th and was through to the top 16. Jarack (Jeek) Federico in his BMW 540i also managed to make it through to the twin battles to represent Scotland.
Practise day was full of surprises, mainly as some drivers have never driven on "The Hill" before. As the drivers get to grips with the track, there were always casualties. Jamie Kenyon in the SR20DET powered Miata noticeably went into the gravel trap and lost all his aero.
One of the most impressive drivers of the day was Marc Huxley in his SR20DET powered KE70 Corolla.
However he did have a bit of a run in during a drift train on the tri-oval and manage to damage the rear quarter. Lucky enough he's a panel beater by trade and fixed the damage in the pits with a hammer and a block of wood.
On Sunday I arrived early as I was due to be on the SXOC stand, which far surpassed our previous efforts if I do say so myself.
Throughout the day, Knockhill claimed more victims and more bumpers, be they semi-pro or super pro. After a brief practise the competition got under way. The Semi Pro class were up first with Matt Campling looking good qualifying first on Saturday.
Unfortunately Ade was knocked out due to mechanical failure.
In the end Sam Holt came out top and claimed first place in his S14.
The Professional class produced some of the closest competition of the day. Mark Huxley also competed in the Pro class and made it into the great 8. Jeek was knocked out in the top 16 battle against Justin Clarke in his S14. Jordan Patton was looking good through the runs in his R32 Skyline.
But Jordan was knocked out by Pete Green in his BMW E30 who went on to come second in class.
Michael Marshall drove well in his S15 throughout the day and was rewarded with the first place podium in the professional class.
In the Super Pro class, all drivers were pretty much amazing through the day. Paul "Smokey" Smith was doing his usual trick of producing lots of smoke in his S15.
Mark Luney was looking amazing as always in the SATS Cosworth Toyota Supra.
Steve Biagioni was attacking the course and was pushing really hard in every run.
Shane Lynch was also putting in consistent good runs.
The final came down to Matt Carter in his Falken sponsored S14.5 versus Mark Luney in the SATS Toyota Supra. Mark Luney however spun in both runs and handed the win to Matt Carter in the end.
The day was amazing, with so much action on track (including on the break period they had a small 1/4 mile competition). The level of drifting has been raised to a higher level than last year. I am grateful that so many competitors made it up for this Scottish round this year. I am sure if I asked any of the drivers how they found the hill…they will give their answer with a smile on their face.
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Fatlace TV x RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF : Nakai-San (RWB)
This video is truly inspiring.
Fatlace TV x RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF : Nakai-San from Luke Huxham on Vimeo.
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
AWESOMEFEST 2011 : THE FILM by Stephen Brooks
A brand new drift weekend was created by the people of DriftWorks and they named it Awesomefest.
I attended this weekend along with the GarageLSD lot and the SXOC. I will have some pictures up shortly, as I never got round to editing them. In the mean time you can check out Garage LSD's coverage here.
Another awesome video by Stephen Brooks covering the weekend. I like how he managed to sum up the whole weekend perfectly. There are some really amazing footage and it made me miss being there.
I attended this weekend along with the GarageLSD lot and the SXOC. I will have some pictures up shortly, as I never got round to editing them. In the mean time you can check out Garage LSD's coverage here.
Another awesome video by Stephen Brooks covering the weekend. I like how he managed to sum up the whole weekend perfectly. There are some really amazing footage and it made me miss being there.
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Total Jap Car Scotland 2011 - Knockhill Racing Circuit with Sumo Hashiru
I was debating whether to go to this show or the Scottish Modified show. In the end the decision was made for me when I was invited out to the Total Jap Car Scotland show by the Sumo Hashiru lot.
I was also invited to stay over at Billy's house and stayed for a night. It was the first time ever meeting them and wow their hospitality was amazing. I cannot thank Billy and Dewi enough for having me over.
On the Saturday, I made my way over to Billy's house after getting escorted by Henry, I was greeted with the upon arrival on the driveway a 4 Door Integra Type R, 5 Door Civic Hatch, CRX Del Sol and Henry's Civic Coupe. The crowd then grew larger as the day drew on.
Needless to say we were drinking until something o clock in the morning, had about 3-4 hours sleep maximum and then got up and started to get ready to go to Knockhill. Once we got there the day wasn't really that well organised. Our stand was supposedly meant to be on a bit of dirt in the corner which was not enough space to fit 3 cars let alone the 9 cars that we had. In the end we got set up at the end of the show area, which turned out to be a pretty good spot.
During the show there was the usual show stands. Some exceptional cars appearing but in my opinion quite a lot of average to normal cars.
HoHo's EK
Dewi's DB8
There was constantly track time for people to go on track...pretty much ran as a hot hatch session where you buy sessions of track time. They had a 1/4 mile competition which Sumo Hashiru participated in too:
They had a drifting competition with 3 participants and also a drift demo from Team Japspeed and Team ScotDrift. The demo's ended up being about 15-25 minutes long and didn't seem long enough.
I did however just walked into the drifting paddocks without any issues whatsoever to get some sneaky pictures
All of the other times were taken up by hot hatches which doing time attack and was 60% non-japanese cars and was quite boring to watch in all honesty considering it was a Japanese car show.
The end of the show though there was a track invasion. This allowed all the show cars invade the Knockhill circuit itself. This was one of the highlights of the day. As you parade around the track, you realise how hard some of the corners are and how much commitment and trust you need to have with your car in order to take some of the corners at speed. We stopped back near the the straight where the finish line was and they let everyone out on track to take photographs.
All in all, a good show. Preferred the drifting to be longer and less of the normal track. I liked the fact they had different events on, like a drift off and a 1/4 mile run (even though they let a time attack evo compete and win the competition). But I enjoyed myself which is the main thing :)
Did I mention that Dewi won the car of the show with her K24'd CRX Del Sol? No? It was so clean and everything was spot on. Attention to detail was crazy, they even had Mugen nuts and bolts. Congratulations Dewi on a well deserved win :)
I was also invited to stay over at Billy's house and stayed for a night. It was the first time ever meeting them and wow their hospitality was amazing. I cannot thank Billy and Dewi enough for having me over.
On the Saturday, I made my way over to Billy's house after getting escorted by Henry, I was greeted with the upon arrival on the driveway a 4 Door Integra Type R, 5 Door Civic Hatch, CRX Del Sol and Henry's Civic Coupe. The crowd then grew larger as the day drew on.
Needless to say we were drinking until something o clock in the morning, had about 3-4 hours sleep maximum and then got up and started to get ready to go to Knockhill. Once we got there the day wasn't really that well organised. Our stand was supposedly meant to be on a bit of dirt in the corner which was not enough space to fit 3 cars let alone the 9 cars that we had. In the end we got set up at the end of the show area, which turned out to be a pretty good spot.
During the show there was the usual show stands. Some exceptional cars appearing but in my opinion quite a lot of average to normal cars.
HoHo's EK
Dewi's DB8
There was constantly track time for people to go on track...pretty much ran as a hot hatch session where you buy sessions of track time. They had a 1/4 mile competition which Sumo Hashiru participated in too:
They had a drifting competition with 3 participants and also a drift demo from Team Japspeed and Team ScotDrift. The demo's ended up being about 15-25 minutes long and didn't seem long enough.
I did however just walked into the drifting paddocks without any issues whatsoever to get some sneaky pictures
All of the other times were taken up by hot hatches which doing time attack and was 60% non-japanese cars and was quite boring to watch in all honesty considering it was a Japanese car show.
The end of the show though there was a track invasion. This allowed all the show cars invade the Knockhill circuit itself. This was one of the highlights of the day. As you parade around the track, you realise how hard some of the corners are and how much commitment and trust you need to have with your car in order to take some of the corners at speed. We stopped back near the the straight where the finish line was and they let everyone out on track to take photographs.
All in all, a good show. Preferred the drifting to be longer and less of the normal track. I liked the fact they had different events on, like a drift off and a 1/4 mile run (even though they let a time attack evo compete and win the competition). But I enjoyed myself which is the main thing :)
Did I mention that Dewi won the car of the show with her K24'd CRX Del Sol? No? It was so clean and everything was spot on. Attention to detail was crazy, they even had Mugen nuts and bolts. Congratulations Dewi on a well deserved win :)
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