FD Qualifier #2 (Video) 9 MIN, 45MB

[z28evans]

Top 15 from the Formula Drift Qualifier Rd2 – 1 views
The 3 judged laps of each of the top 15 finishers at the Formula Drift Qualifier held in Houston, Tx on 2/18/06. The runs are ordered from highest finisher to 15th position.

video at: http://www.bubbadrift.com/album/disp...album=27&pos=0

More videos coming as i get time

James

[Piner]

Damn harri was consistant and hella fast entry why did he score so low compairitivly?

[Mike Peters]

i think its his line, and if you watched his front wheels they were pointed all over the place. he also straightened out a couple times. had a lot of angle though, just a lot of small mistakes.

harri is a good driver, and that car is a handful, the track wasnt his freind that day.

[santi]

why did that 86 get a liscense again?

[Mike Peters]

are you serious? his runs were near flawless. good entry, good line, good angle, no real mistakes, he had really good runs.

[santi]

so spins are acceptable now? i dont know what your seeing. are we watching the same video.. you said these were qualifying runs right?

[MonkeySlide]

Who set up that course? Did Formula D hire DriftDay LLC. to do it?

From the view in the video it looked sort of narrow on that short section right before the clipping point.

Im not sure what line the drivers were being judged on..I just assumed that it was a far outside to clipping point line but with all the water puddles on the outter edge and that narrow looking section it just seemed like it was really freakin hard for the drivers to do what they wanted to do.

Does anyone know exactly what type of line they were being judged on? Any of the judges here?

[santi]

Line ! Whats That ..we're All Supposed To Go Spin Out There.

[EastreetMotorSp]

they were judging entry speed and angle of the car in the first corner, i was there and i saw Chris F test run the layout early and he keep his line tight to the inside of the big corner but with a good amount of speed, then the transition of a lower speed was in the first clipping point you had to be in 2nd and close to the 2 cones in order to do it just right to finish. the judges were sitting at the first turn so i don't think the "S" turn was the main focus....alot of people were making the mistake of going to far out on the first corner be cause it was decieving to want to kick up your speed for a big time drift. but all the did was leave you out in the water, spinning trying to slow down or trying to compensate the distance of your bumper and the cliping point. i tell you one thing the track was dry and way better on grip out side of sprinkles, than irwindale wet surface was.

later

[Mike Peters]

Originally Posted by santi

so spins are acceptable now? i dont know what your seeing. are we watching the same video.. you said these were qualifying runs right?

I didnt say these were qualifying runs, as obviously they arent. If you were there you'd have seen the ae86's runs and I dont recall how many he spun on, but I do recall watching them and thinking he is the only one who is gonna get a liscence, and I do know he didnt spin in all of them. Honestly I don't recall if he spun in any of his runs.

But I didnt say those were his qualifying runs. I didn't edit the video, and I am not responsible for the editing, or claims of what has been edited here. I am doing my own thing in 2006 and am not associated with the video editor in any way/form/fashion, and would like to keep it that way.

[Mike Peters]

Originally Posted by MonkeySlide

Who set up that course? Did Formula D hire DriftDay LLC. to do it?

From the view in the video it looked sort of narrow on that short section right before the clipping point.

Im not sure what line the drivers were being judged on..I just assumed that it was a far outside to clipping point line but with all the water puddles on the outter edge and that narrow looking section it just seemed like it was really freakin hard for the drivers to do what they wanted to do.

Does anyone know exactly what type of line they were being judged on? Any of the judges here?

I wasn't a judge at the event (even though i got an email saying i was :dunno: ) but from what i was told

entry, wide and dont stop accellerating before the drift, dont coast, dont fart around, full out until entry, wide entry, come in for the clipping pointSSSSS on the end of the 1st corner (there are TWO if you look) , then the rest is obvious, clip the slalom cones. and of course the regular full lock for teh win, dont make mistakes and look like your in control.

[CrazyHawaiian]

I wanna make sure I get this right. So all those guys qualified for FD?

[z28evans]

So all those guys qualified for FD?

No, only the top 2 recieved any type of entry in to FD. I just picked the top 15 from the scoring and put them in order from 1st to 15th - results here: http://www.driftday.com/fdtxqualifier_results.htm

I didnt say these were qualifying runs, as obviously they arent.

The video is of the 3 judged qualifying runs that each person made.

[Mike Peters]

thats funny, because harri goes 5 times....

[z28evans]

thats funny, because harri goes 5 times....

No, harri's car goes 6 times - they had two different drivers using the same car to try and qualify. They were not the only ones to do that, just some of the others that shared a car didn't make the top 15. Go give your expert opinion somewhere else.

[Mike Peters]

Hmm...well 3 runs per driver, 5 runs shown, figured it was just bad editing. But now I do notice that the numbers are different. Didn't really look into it, just figured it was bad editing.

[HoosierDrifter]

i really like the driver of the 350z... he might not of been consistant, but i really like the lines he was trying to pull off, plus the quickness of his transitions.

and now about mike and z28evans: i think you guys should start up your own topic and argue there... that way other people will be aware of what is goin on and can comment on you two's situation. just a thought... plz dont take offense

[Mike Peters]

Well, I'd rather not. I've gotten plenty of emails from him I'd rather not think about the stupidity/childish level of, and from a proffessionalism standpoint unlike some other people in this thread I dont beleive in bringing up BS/immaturity in public, or also unlike some other people in this thread I dont beleive in calling up 3rd parties with unfounded lies, making unfounded posts on forums directly bashing the other party, or posting unfounded negative connotations on my website to my former driver, and/or badmouthing the other in public, as it is unproffessional, and shoudl be kept in the halls of the local high school/junior high where it belongs. But I did honestly wonder why harri's car ran 5 times, and figured it was just careless editing, since it was a claimed 3 judged runs form each car, and 5 is no variant of 3, and since I only watched it twice since I was there (although I was sleeping in my car for several hours) when people were asking me about some stuff, and I only breifly chatted with harri all weekend while he was fixing his ebrake, and didn't know anyone else was driving his car.

[TIREKILLER]

Wow! Just WOW!

[z28evans]

and now about mike and z28evans: i think you guys should start up your own topic and argue there... that way other people will be aware of what is goin on and can comment on you two's situation. just a thought... plz dont take offense

I've gotten a lot of questions regarding this issue, a lot of people are curious and want to know the gossip. I would rather not get into things publicly, just makes for a lot of drama and would be a mess. Things are pretty well documented on my part. Those that know of the situation, including my sponsors, are free to draw thier own conclusion - and many have. Time will tell better than any posting on the internet. We'll be around for 2006.

and from a proffessionalism standpoint unlike some other people in this thread I dont beleive in.... making unfounded posts on forums directly bashing the other party,

Can you spot the hypocrisy?

I started this thread to show the video from this last weekend, and was only trying to correct some misinformation. I'll have some videos up soon.

James

[Mike Peters]

time ceartainly will tell. however the true hypocricy is your posts in the dumpster on h240, but i can agree on the time will tell option.

[Nismo241]

Originally Posted by z28evans

Can you spot the hypocrisy?

I started this thread to show the video from this last weekend, and was only trying to correct some misinformation. I'll have some videos up soon.

James

I believe he indirectly bashed you, where in his quote it says that he doesn't believe in the direct bashing of another, so there is no hypocricy there.