DRIFT MATSURI - TAKE ONE

Well an epic weekend was had.. The weekend just past was the first Drift Matsuri for QLD.. Queensland raceway put on an incredible event, really cant thank the organisers enough!!!

The day started off very early.. we met up at my place to leave at 5:30am on Saturday with what was meant to be a quick stop at 6ish to meet Harris... for some stupid reason the RYDES s15 decided to lock itself randomly, locking his keys inside.. with no spare key, here we were breaking into an S15 at 6:30 in the bloody morning!!!


We got back on the road eventually and kept heading up towards QR... after getting onto the Logan motorway, we hit some crazy weather.. sitting at 60ish and still could only see about 5m in front of the car.. was epicly sketchy!!


This is what we read when we had a look at BOM..eeeekkkkk

Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Southeast Queensland 

The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 4:35 am, severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near the area southwest of Dalby and the area west of Dalby. These thunderstorms are moving towards the east

Arriving at QR, it had settled a bit, but was still raining pretty heavy and QR had epic amounts of water.... everyyy whhheerrrreeeee!!!!!!!!!


At the time I was more worried about finding a spot to park up and get ready for the weekend, then pulling out the camera to get some photos.. luckily for me there is always heaps of photographers at events like this, so here are some super cool shots showing how much water there was, care of MISKO...

Short track was pretty much a swimming pool!!!

After we set up camp in a dry spot just at the pit entry on the exit of corner 6.. I quickly grabbed the camera and got a few snaps!!

Track being drenched, made for epic angles and also a lot of spin outs... really wish I got out for a few runs with the track so wet.. would have been great to learnt the basics of the track with little effort! :P

Lucky for everybody the rain disappeared and the track started too dry up and with a dry track the tyres starting baking!!!

MORE TO COME!!


Thanks, Streetkarnage.

STREETKARNAGE X FREEWORKS 2ND MEET

On Saturday we had our colab meet with Freeworks.. we have kept these meets private and invite only and so far has worked out just like we have planned!! Keeping the numbers small, keeps the car quality high and makes the atmosphere of the meets very relaxed and chilled.. plus gives most people the time to chat to everybody... well still hard to say hi and have a chat to everyone.. but hundred times easier then say a JDMST meet!

With one successful meet under our belt we come into this one a lot more prepared and organised and we wanted to add a few more things to the meet that we missed out on last time! One of those things was including a BBQ into number 2 too bring the chilled vibe that the first meet oozed!! We new that any car park that had BBQ area would be insanely busy on a perfect day on a weekend.. so went on the hunt for an excluded car park in between brissy and the goldy, and we brought along our own BBQ to supply the whole meet a snag or two!!

Hughesy had the job of being the man with the tongs.. and cooked up the sausages for everybody..!! Next one we will defiantly have an option for the vegetarians of the meet.. didn't even think about it for this one, sorry!

Was stoked to see the Chris Pang atteneded in the lamer S15.. This would easily be my favourite S15 around... and its always great to get the pleasure to droll over it in person!!! haha

You may remember it from the features on Speedhunters or Fatlace !!!

First time Alex's golf had been seen out with its freshly colour-coded body, done by a good friend of the blog, Flynn Dowling.. If your around the Brisbane area and would like anything painted from wheels to bumpers to full cars.. Email us and we can put you onto him!

I will most likely will get in trouble for posting this shot of Lauren.. she always looks away from the camera when someone is taking a photo.. but I got a sneaky one that she had no idea about!! haha

This is John aka Johnzoku aka John Dollisson the man behind AusZoku.. This was the first time I had officially met John.. damn cool dude and that MO is just straight up fucking RAD!!!

We would like to thank everybody that attended the meet and we are looking forward to the next one!!

MUCH LOVE!!! <3

oh and as you would have read yesterday, we had a pretty intense weekend and I have shit loads to post.. so the rest of the coverage of this meet will be up tomorrow!!

Thanks, Streetkarnage