Formula D Atlanta: Part 1
May 15th, 2012
Road Atlanta is a lot of people’s favorite track. Personally, I like it because of all the colors and the lack of fences. That makes it an easy place to shoot. It’s a favorite for fans because of the layout. Instead of parking your car, walking hella far, and sitting in your seat, you can drive your car almost right up to the track, have a tailgate party, set up a canopy, bring your own chairs and a cooler, and chill. For the drivers, they like the fact that it’s an actual road course as opposed to an oval or parking lot, and this track in particular has awesome elevation changes and really fun turn complexes, including the bowl where all the drifting takes place.
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As if one whole day of getting dusted every minute by rally cars wasn’t enough, they decided rallies should go all weekend…hey I wasn’t complaining! This stuff is fun as hell.
The Oregon Trail Rally is the first of two west coast stops for the Rally America championship. I’d been wanting to attend this rally for years, but somehow never got the chance. Well, since Life Blasters is increasing its motorsports coverage this year, I figured I’d better finally go.
Hello everyone! My name is Sam Attal. I am a 21-year-old contributor for MotorMavens and a student journalist for Contra Costa College’s newspaper in San Pablo/Richmond, California. I covered my first Occupy protest last night as part of the worldwide May Day festivities for my newspaper. It was intense!
Looking through old stuff again, I found my unedited set from Sonoma in 2008! This was my second season shooting FD so I felt like an old timer at the time. Boy was I wrong about that. Here we have 2011 champ Dai Yoshihara in Rhys Millen’s GTO. Rhys won the championship with this car in 2005.
It seems that the current generation has a grossly skewed idea of what a copyright is. Just look up a music video on YouTube and you’ve got a good chance of seeing a user say something along the lines of “I am not claiming copyright of this video. All copyrights belong to the original author.” What that says to me is that many people think a copyright is merely a claim to authorship, and a work may be copied as long as they say they’re not the author and/or say who the real author is. The YouTube user said these things in an attempt to avoid getting his video removed for copyright infringement.
The rain was all but a memory as everyone dragged themselves back to the GP circuit for the third day. The ALMS teams had packed up and gone, leaving their paddock empty save a smattering of show cars and classic Ferraris. But excitement was still in the air, as the weekend’s main event was still to come: The 38th running of the Long Beach Grand Prix.
As if the awesomeness on Friday wasn’t enough, I went back for more on Saturday! I was disappointed that it was no longer raining, but sun meant no cancelled sessions. I had World Challenge and Indy Lights practice to look forward too, as well as drifting, Indy practice, and qualifying, before the main event of the day: the American Le Mans race.
I woke up late on Friday morning to a torrential downpour and a bunch of amazing rain racing photos on Facebook. Not wanting to miss my chance to get my own amazing rain racing photos, we rushed down to Long Beach just in time to find a bunch of cancelled practice and qualifying sessions. Bummer.
After visiting Jordan Innovations I headed down to Orange County to meet up with some other friends. I had some time to kill so I stopped by the Huntington Beach pier to check out the surfing!
I stopped by Jordan Innovations last week to check out the progress on Jeff Jordan’s widebody FD. He’s been working on the project for a few years, going through different body kits, but now he’s super serious with a super rare BRS GT widebody kit, which is modeled after the JGTC アスパラドリンク GT300 car.
Last Wednesday I was hanging out with Larry, and we went over to FSR in Montclair to check out Fredric Aasbø’s Supra. I hadn’t seen his Supra since Irwindale 2010 so I was excited to see what they were doing to it!
After our day at Venice Beach, I took Annie and Justin over to Flagship Society Tattoo Parlor in Garden Grove, where their ride back to the Northwest, Ian Dillon, was getting some new ink.
As with tradition, I ended up at Venice Beach the day after Formula D Long Beach again. This time Geoff wasn’t able to make it, but Justin and Annie came along and we met up with Joe, Brooke, and Yoshi.
