11
May
2010
Formula Drift: Atlanta
With my new found freedom of working freelance, I spontaneously bought AirTran plane tickets at 2am to go to the Formula D: Atlanta event. No hotel necessary, my old friends at S3 Magazine and new friends at Keep Drifting Fun provided a couch (or floor) to sleep on.
BIG thanks to UrbanRacer.com for getting me media access. Shamefully I spent most of my time having a few Yuenglings in the paddock area, but hell I was mainly here to have fun. On to the pics:
I have this foot thing I’m working on… trust me it’ll be cool. But this shows where I was shooting for most of these pics.
One of my favorite shots; 2009 Champion Chris Forsberg leading 2004 and 2006 Champion Samuel Hübinette around the horseshoe.
Forsberg ripping around the horseshoe again.
Ryan Tuerck blowing smoke in my face. Thanks
Ross Petty smokin’ around the horseshoe. One of my favorite cars of the crowd.
Vaughn Gittin Jr. showboating for the crowd. The sound of this mustang’s V8 almost makes me want to buy one… almost.
Dai Yoshiahra against Chris Forsberg in the semi-finals.
Close-up of how beat-up these cars can get over 2 brutal days of drifting.
The big weiner; Dai Yoshihara. A crowd favorite.
Formula D has been around for nearly a decade, and the sport of drifting much longer. It’s one of the few motorsports where I see absolutely everyone associated with the sport having fun. Any attitudes that flare up over an unethical bump or crash is dissipated as quickly as the smoke just made. Drifting was founded on having fun, and when the sun goes down and cars are trailored away it will still be based on fun. Long live drifting. 
Fantastic shots, sir! Good hanging out too, glad you made it! I’ll try to find some money and make it out to the west coast eventually, I need my In-And-Out fix, haha.
Good seein ya man. Glad you made it out. I’m with Cody on the In & Out fix! lol
I can mail some In-N-Out to you guys if you want?
glad to finally meet you clint. hope it wasnt to hot for you. take a look at my pics on flickr and let me know what you think
Haha I’ve been doing the foot thing for a couple years – I have shots from all over, Seattle, San Francisco, Tokyo, Osaka, Chicago, LA, Phoenix, Germany etc. I usually just keep them to myself but one day I will probably assemble them into some kind of epic photo essay lol.
@Sean, I wanna see
We can start a website called artshoes, artfeet, oh wait they’re taken
Basically it’s my boredom being put to use lol.
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I have a bunch more than this but here are a few that are hosted (if this works lol, not sure what code your blog accepts and my last post failed hard).
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3177/2617148771_7e1d9ca570.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3172/2500001031_3638b2870a.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/2481638255_d61fdcfe12.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2265/2259410265_6c135b5095.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/2147901963_ce2cfabafa.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2271/2482449120_214a2083d6.jpg[/img]
[img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2378/2200371794_f0067ca5f8.jpg[/img]
Okay just grab the URL between the image tags lol.