DRIFTTHING NIGHTS AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP CROWNS HIS FUTURE DK ...AGAIN !
June 15 2008
Today was held the first event of three rounds of the DriftThing Nights Amateur Championship series. Faithfull to themselves, the DN organisation was well done and high in entertainment. Amateur drivers showed up earlier than usual to get their skills on the pavement and burn some serious rubber.
Despite the fact that the Autodrome St-Eustache could have been a bit more crowded, the lucky and sunburned assistance had more then enough excitment for their money. All day long, the DriftThing rock band shook the house with hardcore classics on a huge stage. To have a live band directly on the track addend a new dimension to the event and to be honnest, they sounded pretty darnn good !
Entertainment is the key word in Eric Belec's amateur drifting events. DMCC pro drivers smoked the crowd with insane demos and high speed competition. Speeking of high speed competition, J-F Chiasson defended his 120 km/h title with fierce and was crowned for doing it at 130 km/h. That beats Haig Kanadjian that got 127 km/h and Marco Santos that got a 126 km/h. Carl Nadeau tangled between his 240sx and the old Soarer beast ( and almost ran over one of our cameras) . Babu's Mustang even caught on fire while running in a demo...just the small usual oil on header kind of stuff! Dominic Desrosiers even brought his new ride, a pick-up Porsche with an aluminium V8. Special video interview is comming soon on the site...
Amateur drifters looked very happy of their day and proud of their "done it again" first place winner. Dave Perreault got the highest step of the podium followed by Tony Vachon that missed the podium by inches. They were both making perfect runs until the ultimate end where Tony's supercharged G35 spun out in the last entry zone while he was leading without any pressure. Mathieu Labelle finished third overall and burned the hell out of the place.
Stay tuned on CanadianDrifting for videos later this week. We work hard to make all of you tire smoke addicts happy each and every week ! We only had 3 stickers left so they went away in seconds...we are still waiting for a pretty darn good price to get new ones done, so you can all dress your ride with the latest in Drifting fashion !!
Simon Lanciault