G1 round 3
A little late, but better late than never! Here are some of the photos i took at this years round 3 of the South Australian G1 drift series.
Man its been forever!!! – G1 round two – part1
So i finaly found time to do some photo editing on my G1 photos and here is the first lot. The day was a very good event and im looking forward to round 3.
Now for some battle pics!!!
Hopefully i will find some time to edit the rest of the photos i have from this event hahaha.
Enjoy guys!
Drift Supercup 2012
Theres not much to say about this event except WOW! Great day, great cars, great people and drift! If you havent been to DSC before, make sure you get their next year. Thanks to Mallala Raceway for putting on a good event.
Congratulations to Jarred Klingberg for taking out first place!
Enjoy the photos.
The Vic crew! Make sure you check out the work from Joey at Jacked it, and Matty from Stylised Productions as both these guys do awesome work.
Your winner for the day, Jarred Klingberg killing it! Congratulations buddy.
Luke Broadbent had a few unfriendly encounters with the tyre stacks through the day, but managed to get the car back together thanks to his crew and continued on to win the drift snake challenge.
Drift School Part 3
OK guys, here is the last batch of photos from Drift School 2012 at Mallala Raceway. I don’t have much to say of the subject this time except enjoy!
Stay tuned as ill be at Drift Super cup this weekend, so ill have plenty more photos to share!
Drift School Part 2
Here is the second batch of photos from this years Drift School at Mallala Raceway.
Enjoy!
2012 Mallala Drift School
On the 29th of May, Mallala Raceway put on this years Drift School. The Day was a great opportunity for upcoming drivers to learn new skills and meet some experienced guys at the same time! Some of the best and most experienced drivers SA has to offer were there to instruct the beginners such as Wayne Nunn, Phil Branson, Stuart Furze, Eddie Modra, Jarrad Klingberg, Davey Clarke, Ian Roddey, and Australia’s first D1GP driver Jake Jones! If you attended the day and were on track, you were in for a treat!
So the day started off with everyone being divided into different experience levels and then put into the appropriate groups. Then once everyone’s cars were up and running, the groups all headed out to different parts of the track where they started to learn their new skills. The beginners were on the skid pan learning how to do controlled donuts and figure eights, why the intermediate and experienced groups were on the main track hitting up the 2 hairpins and the “S”.
About midday there was a lunch break where drivers had the opportunity to check out other people’s rides, ask questions to instructors, or just hang out and check out all the new gear that was on offer at the “SLEEKA SPARES” garage. Once everyone finished eating, they were given the opportunity to move up to different groups if they felt up to it.
At the end of the day their was an open drift practise for all drivers to try there newly developed skills on most of the track. This was also an opportunity for the instructors to get out on track for a bit of fun after spending the entire day watching everyone else get to. There were some awesome tandems going on during the practise session and even some new guys getting some big angle on turn 1. One highlight of the day was seeing Stuart Furze get his Holden Maloo ute on track and melting some tyres!
After all tyres were melted and all clutches fried, everyone packed up and talked about the great day theat was just had. If you’re a new driver interested at getting into the drift world, I highly recommend attending next years drift school as it was a great day and a lot of fun to just shoot even!
Stay tuned for part 2! Enjoy the photos.
Last Weekends Drift Practise!!!
Last weekend at Mallala Raceway I attended drift prac! Here are the pictures. They can do more talking than I can 
Enjoy!
Cars of Stadium Drift Pits
So at the end of my day I like to take a walk around the pits and shoot the amazing cars that are out on the track all day. These were some of the best throughout the day.
Stadium Drift 2012 Rd 1
So Saturday at Tailem Bend was round 1 of the South Australian Stadium Drift series. Although I arrived late, what I did end up seeing was some pretty wicked drifting. The track was fairly small and battles didn’t last very long, but the drivers still went hard until the last run of the day. A few sponsored drivers showed up, but most were fairly new guys so the battles were pretty even. Hopefully round 2 will be just as good.
Enjoy!
It took about 5sec for this guy to slap a smashedlense sticker on his car. Cheers buddy!
Cars of Pit Lane of rd 1 comming up next!
One Sick Sil80!
So I had a photo shoot with an old friend of mine, and his awesome Nissan sil80 drift car the other day. Chris’ car is currently still a “build in progress”, but when its finished it’s going to be a beast. Trust me! what makes this build so awesome is the new power plant. A 2JZ fitted to a shorten rb25 gearbox. Thats right. A 2jz!
In the engine bay we have a gt3582 turbo with a TIAL 38mm external wastegate, super now solid engine mounts, HKS oil cooler, sard radiator, k&n oil catch can, generic intercooler, as well as OEM parts sourced from other Nissan vehicles.
In the suspension department we have a wide variety of aftermarket parts such as JIC coilovers, ikeya formula rack ends, KTS tie rod ends, kazama caster rods, power by max solid sub frame bushes, and s14 lower control arms. Braking is being taken care of with project mu disks, s14 four pot front calipers, with all brakes being fitted with braided lines.
On the inside we have most of the interior still being ripped out with a single bride fixed back racing seat being fitted to hold Chris in place when he’s holding the car sideways through all those turns at Mallala. Accompanying this is a full Cusco 8 point roll cage, works bell steering wheel, blitz boost controller, relocated battery to the now missing back seat, as well as the much-needed apexi gauges to make sure nothing happens to the new power plant.
The body at this point is pretty standard except for a pair of Origin carbon fiber rear wings.
In the Tyre department, Chris has a variety of different rims which he will be using which are 17×9 +11, 17×9.5 +15 and 17×8 +8. All rims will be wrapped in 215/45r17 tyres.
Chris is looking to have the car finished in time to attend Drift school at Mallala in April, so if you go, make sure you say hi to him and check out his ride. Make sure you also watch for Chris at future drift practises and hopefully some drift events in the near future.
Chris would also like to thank metalwork for the help they have provided and all his mates for the advice, beers, and general help on the car.
Enjoy!
10/10 Summer Matsuri Part 2
Here is part two of the 10/10 summer matsuri at Mallala. The photos will also include engine bays and cars in the pit area. Have a look and let me know what you think.
Enjoy!
This petrol flap says what a lot of us are probably thinking!
That basically wraps up the best of my matsuri photos. I will probably put up random stuff here or there so stick around and stay updated by subscribing to my blog.
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Summer 10/10 Matsuri part 1
So last weekend was the first Matsuri for the year and was also the first matsuri i have ever been to. With nearly 200 cars entered and well over 1000 spectators, it was a great day and extremely fun to shoot. besides the main track, Mallala also had the skid pan in full swing. I have never seen the skid pan in use before so I was very excited to see what was on offer. No major crashes happened on the day but plenty of tyres were destroyed. So below are the first part of the hundreds upon hundreds of photos I took on the day.
enjoy!
If your going to put it into the tyres, do it in style.
Going hard and destroying rubber the way it should be done!
This guy looked like he was loving life!
This 180sx sure loved destroying tyres. That was the second rear tyre I seen popped on the back-end!
First drift practise for the year
So I went to the first drift practise for the 2012 season and man was it gay! I had the worst night. I mean, don’t get me wrong. The drifting was awesome as always and there was amazing cars on track. Just the weather and my crap memory were to blame. It poured down and caused me and my gear to become soaking wet and I just plain forgot to check my camera settings before the day. Most photos I took were poor quality so to make the most of what I did get, I had decide to go artistic and play around with new editing techniques that I have never tried. For the photographers out there, you will know what cross processing is. for everyone else it’s when you develop old film in the wrong chemicals on purpose to create weird coloring and tones. Now I realise that these are digital photos but the effect is the same.
Anyways, some people will like them, most probably wont. Either way, there for you to love or hate. Let me know what you think.
Enjoy!
Some more G1 Drift
Just some more photos from the first round of G1 drift that i attended. Its been a long time since i took these but i just found them the other day hahaha. I love the s13 in this first photo. Something about the rust paint looks cool. Enjoy.
G1 Drift part 1
There has been a lot going on over the past month photography wise which is why i haven’t posted in a while. But at last here is part one of the 2011 rd1 G1 drift event.
The following few photos have a Sepia tone effect to them that I have been experimenting with.
Heres Adam from “Holeshot Photography” chillin trackside. (A bit of a plug for ya mate)
