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MCNSPORT.com
07-04-10, 00:14
Right guys we head off tomorrow morn for the highly anticipated Round 1 of Formula Drift in Long Beach
Gonna be updating every evening with all the happenings of the day incl pictures etc.
First update will be from the 2011 Vaughan Gitten Mustang Lauch party.......
serious tom
07-04-10, 12:43
good idea. keep us posted ;)
Well we'r in the bar in the Continental president suit in Newark airport at the mo :D Heading to LA in 2 hrs!
MCNSPORT.com
07-04-10, 16:18
its suite dan
its suite dan
jesus ya he cant even spell:p, maybe next time you should take someone who can spell;):D
Jay Rockett
07-04-10, 22:18
Best of luck man! Do us proud!
Best of luck. Looking forward to the updates. :)
MCNSPORT.com
16-04-10, 18:11
Ok we had a serious laptop malfunction in LA so here is everythin we did in full
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Here is the view from Newark Liberty International as we await our connecting flight to LA
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We got straight off the plane and into the Falken Scion xb and straight to the Falken Tire Monster Energy Ford Mustang launch party
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Heres the gang for the weekend. dxdan papa and james deane and myself
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Here is the reason we were all there
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once again ASD fabrication is outta this world
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Nigey was missing from the last photo for some reason
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Heres the famous go-kart form the gymkhana video
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Lea Anne got a new tattoo which seemed very interesting after 6 or 7 vodkas
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Here is the fantasy factory itself
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and the man himself mister Drydek
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We got absolutely wasted and managed to get a half hour in the Irish bar across from the hotel too and this was the view in the morning. Anybody recognise it? its where travis pastrana jumped the subaru
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We headed to the track thurs to check everything out
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The Sky was being unloaded for some pictures
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Dan tried on JR muzzy
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and we checked out the competitions cars. some old............
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some new
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and some weird stuff like this hot rod thingy
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which was actually pretty cool
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James Deane was representing Falken and of course MCNSPORT this weekend
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The ASD mechanics rang me and said come for a beer so we did and this was the view from the bar, thats our hotel. not too shabby eh?
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Here is a shot from after qualifing as me a James messed around
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And here is a shot from our celebrations on sat night. some drifting went on during that time but thats old news by now. left to right is papa deane, mad mike, dan and toni
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On sunday to recover from our hangover we went slick track go-karting
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and drag racing, these turned out to be a lot more fun than they looked
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The boys had never been to universal so we decided to go there on monday
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This turned out to be a great laugh, papa deane was very grumpy until we got food in him
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we had to double check if james was tall enough for the rides
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we went proper go-karting monday night
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and brought ninja papa deane along
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I proceeded to break the lap record on my first proper try, well chuffed with that
We spent tuesday karting also but i was too busy to take pics. The two porsche alms driver came to take us on and they cheated theyre way to the win otherwise i think i cudda beat em, maybe next time
That was Long beach, next up is Atlanta in 3 weeks time
robbie@tdp.ie
16-04-10, 18:29
Good write up Darren. Thanks for sharing
Robbie
Aidan Hogan
16-04-10, 19:05
Great write up plenty of pics :D
Looking forward bto Atlanta now
savage pics darren. "ninja pappa dean "class:D
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