Come to Wall, New Jersey on September 8th to see Formula D live in action in Wall, New Jersey! Not a far drive from Philadelphia or New York City! Get off your couch, drag your lame girlfriend and show up to the track! Also stop by the Slide America booth!!!!!!

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Tanner Foust is in first place currently but last year Rhys Millen sat pretty for a back/back championship and broke in top 16! Sam Hubinette went on to win the event and at Irwindale sealed the fate for his second championship! Wall should be the turning point of the season!

Here is a drivers list from Formula D! Don’t miss America’s top series drivers tearing it up in Wall, New Jersey!
Rank Car No. Driver
1 36 Tanner Foust Seeded
2 64 Chris Forsberg Seeded
3 9 Daijiro Yoshihara Seeded
4 2 Rhys Millen Seeded
5 25 Vaughn Gittin Jr. Seeded
6 11 Kenji Yamanaka Seeded
7 1 Samuel Hubinette Seeded
8 8 Darren McNamara Seeded
9 22 Bill Sherman Seeded
10 21 Ken Gushi Seeded
11 16 Tyler McQuarrie Seeded
12 33 Kazu Hayashida Seeded
13 47 Ryan Tuerck Seeded
14 7 Casper Canul Seeded
15 69 Mitsuru Haruguchi Seeded
16 96 Tony Angelo Seeded
17 808 Ross Petty
18 26 Ryuji Miki
19 86 Taka Aono
20 48 Tommy Suell
21 10 Hiro Sumida
22 31 Robbie Nishida
22 4 Stephan Papadakis
24 76 Chris Cook
25 15 Robby Unser
26 12 Stephan Verdier
27 619 Seigo Yamamoto
28 3 Calvin Wan
29 19 Doug VanDenBrink
30 5 Joon Maeng
31 27 Ben Schwartz
32 99 Kyle Mohan
33 68 Gary Lang
34 36 Hiromi Kajikuma
35 24 Gary Simmons
36 18 Tony Brakohiapa
37 38 Barry Wong
38 40 Ben Reyes

Yea thanks to Bob and all the staff over at urbanracer.com we got an awesome little piece and interview done about Slide America! Stoked, go check it out and click all their banner ads so they can pay bills and eat dinner.

Ignore the rude and untrue ramblings of my interview section too, haha.Urbanracer.com

Well Tunerfest was this weekend which is a little event in coordination with the drag strip, Hayes Dodge (number one seller of Mopar in the USA), and importatlanta.com. So we had an off weekend from travel and came out to visit with Sam Hubinette in the Mopar/Dodge/BFGoodrich Charger and Chris Cook in his Shift Into Gear Dodge Viper. They put on some killer demo’s, here are some snaps from the pits.

Here is the Charger.

Here is Chris Cook getting the car ready for more demo’s. Note the tape on the rear quarter panel, Chris blew his rear tire in the first demo and it sheered off the rear quarter paneling on the car! It was quite a site to see.

In closing it was a great weekend and we got a chance to do some great interviews with them that will be coming out soon! These guys are both great and I hope they stay around in the sport for a long time. Here is a picture with Sam Hubinette and the promoter of the event Paul Firestine!

I got informed earlier that Nick Hogan is out of the hospital now. I spoke with a few people that have talked to him and he has a broken arm and is very sore he said. He is at the hospital at his friend (the passenger) side while he recovers. Hopefully John makes a quick recovery from the incident.

Right as I finished writing this I came across this on CNN as well.

“A representative answering the patient information line at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, said Nick Bollea, 17, had been discharged. Bollea is the son of Hogan, whose real name is Terrence Bollea.

Bollea’s passenger in the Sunday crash, John Graziano, 22, remained in critical condition at Bayfront on Monday afternoon, said hospital spokeswoman Nancy Waite.

“Nick is currently at the hospital with John and his family,” said Bollea’s mother, Linda Hogan, in a statement. “His sole concern is for the well-being of his friend. On behalf of my family, we ask that your thoughts and prayers be with John and his loved ones.” ”

CNN.com News

Well Ebisu was this weekend in Japan and Kumakubo came out in a Evo!!!!!!!! Crazy I tell you, these guys at Team Orange don’t play around. I couldn’t find much information other than this guys blog Reference Link so I cannot take credit for this but thought you guys might like to see it!

Here is the text from the blog on how the Evo did!

“This past weekend was round 5 of the D1GP @ Ebisu Circuit. Kumakubo Nobushige used this event at his home course to unleash his new FR Converted Lancer Evolution. I still haven’t seen a full report of the event yet, but he managed to finish 8th overall, which is great considering the new machine. What is even more impressive is that he brought out the new car in the middle of a tight battle between him and Kawabata Masato for the D1 Championship. This serves as a testament to both Kumakubo’s driving and to Koyama-san and the crew at JUN Auto for building a competitive car. I found a couple pictures taken by some fans of the new machine. (I do not take any credit for them) Option/D1 should be updating their website with complete coverage soon, so keep an eye out for it. By the way, Nomura Ken won the Ebisu event, it’s good to see him back at the top after struggling earlier in the season.”

Here it is in action!

For those of you that haven’t heard, around 8:00pm tonight (3 hours ago) Nick Hogan and a friend got in an accident on Court Street outside downtown Clearwater, Florida in Nick’s Toyota Supra. Nick Hogan is part of the Drifting family and has been a great supporter of Slide America and we want to wish him a speedy recovery and a thanks! Hopefully he is able to get back to full health and back out on the track in no time.

The news reports about what happened are very contradicting as of now so we aren’t really sure on Nick’s current condition. I did however see some pictures of the car on the ground and it looks horrible. We hope that Nick and his passenger recover to 100% very soon.

A couple news reports:

baynews9.com

tbo.com

Like seriously who books these gigs? Canada is only good for two things, hockey and beer and no NHL teams are playing during the summer. Luckily Mark from PAS Magazine’s condo was clutch because instead of a kitchen table he had this…….

As you can see this game simulated a great Canadian classic…..Ottawa Senators Vs. Toronto Maple Leafs! If you have to ask who won you must not know enough about hockey, Go Heatly, Speeza, Emery! So many constant battles on the sticks made me get over my hockey cravings. Mark kept giving me this good beer that said Made in India claiming it was Canadian but I wasn’t buying it! Another off topic note, they don’t have the iphone in Canada and I had several people like accost me over mine asking if they could take pictures with it……it’s a wonder Americans stereotypically think Canadians are weirdo’s. We hit up an awesome lifestyle shop in Buffalo in our free time as well called Krudmart in Buffalo, RJ over at Krudmart gave me free stuff, so he earned himself a free plug back on the blog. I am going to post more pictures now…..I am getting bad at making these long winded……

Friday night we went with Mark to an event called Cravefest? The first annual music festival that was important and exciting I guess blah blah? It was pretty fun and the vibe was cool but their were just a ton of artist walking around the VIP upstairs with awards and these glass trophies and I didn’t know who any of them were, so I was just generally confused but I do remember the event was sponsored by Jagermeister!

So the next morning we crawl out of bed (or I was sleeping on the living room floor on a mattress built out of leather couch cushions?) Don’t ask please. Well regardless we arrived at Downsview Park to see some Canadian Drifting! Luckily the Drift Alliance made the hike across the pond to throw the great American party and throw the Canadian National Handstand contest (more on this later).

They made the weekend that much more fun which shouldn’t shock anyone that knows them personally or has seen their heavy.com videos. Let’s talk about some nitty gritty competition here though, we had one American come out to represent the red, white, and blue and destroy some Canadian Drifters! This man was MA-Motorsports Brian in the “Zombie Car” as Matt Petty kept yelling all weekend. I know Brian from when we filmed Slide America in Englishtown and I’ve seen him rip it up so I was excited to see how he would wind up doing with this competition.

Brian killed it and wound up in second place behind one of the Kenji Yaminaka lookalike Hankook Skyline R32’s, pretty sure it was Jean-Sebastian Lefleur in the Yakuza/Hankook car who took home first place. It was really a treat to see some guys like Marcos Santos Drifting.

Well big thanks to Edmund, Sophia (who I harassed several times about media credentials that she kindly ended up giving me even though I never applied for), Drift Mania, Drift Mania staff, Downsview Park, Drift Alliance, Montye for selling it up, and the border patrol for letting us back into the States!

One last great treasure of the weekend…..for those of you that have watched the movie, Matt Petty describes MA Brian as the man “just gunning for trophies….” and ever time I see him that is all I ever think about because it’s hilarious. So I had to take the oppurtunity to take this picture for the blog!

Yea we are leaving in like four hours and I haven’t packed or done crap. Stop 1: KrudMart Stop 2: The Border Stop 3: Performance Auto Sound Magazine. Hopefully Mark didn’t steal our DVD’s and then who knows what is going down. Full report coming soon! I am going to pack…..

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Well let’s start with the basics…….the temperature in Atlanta when we left was about 102 degrees (not including humidity). The temperature upon landing at SFO was like 58 degrees. The weather pretty much kicked my ass and now I am sick :(. The weekend was a blast though. We landed and headed to downtown to swing by Mark’s store on Post called Fatlace.

After leaving Fatlace we headed up to Sonoma. The fog on the 101 was insane, here is us crossing the Golden Gate Bridge.

Formula D was pretty wild. The Drift Alliance ended up taking home first and second place which was just crazy! The best image of the weekend has to be Calvin Wan’s Infiniti G35. Calvin was looking good till this accident in qualifying, I am sure it was extra frustrating for him being that this was his home track.

Me on the sidelines……hard at work or hardly working?

Somehow I lived to wake up another day after eating this………Go animal style or go home!

Overall Sonoma was a great time, cannot wait to go crazy in Toronto at Drift Mania this weekend! Time to get wasted off more root beer with Mark from PAS Magazine.