2010 Formula Drift ProAM: Thunderdrift

 

Nor Cal is stepping it up big time in 2010!  Formula Drift is now officially the sanctioning body for the Thunderdrift Championship Series.  Nor Cal's greatest drivers will be going head to head in all out tandem battle at Thunderhill Raceway.  The racetrack, in Willows, CA offers extremely fast and blind combination corners that will have drifters seeing 3rd and 4th gear speeds.  This Sunday is Round 1 in the points championship and it is going to be intense.  Spectators are more than welcome and the weather is going to be great.  Hope to see you guys there!

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350Z in the Nissan Motorsports Calender

I just received a few copies of the Nissan Motorsports 2010 calender today. The 350Z was posted up as the month of October!

Photo credit to Michael Groh!

NOR CAL NOS INTRODUCES JARED THOMPSON

 

 

Hey drift fans, here is some background on the newest edition to the Nor Cal Nos Team! 

Jared Thompson, a product of the bay area, was a pro driver in the 2007 World Drift Series in China and the winner of the first annual Nor Cal Track Drift Competition at Thunderhill Raceway.  Thompson finished 3rd overall in the 2009 Thunderdrift Championship Series and will be competing in the 2010 Formula Drift ProAM.

Be sure to follow us on the blogs for upcoming competitions featuring Jared Thompson and his Nissan 240sx powered by Zankoku Performance and Nos Energy Drink.

Racing on ice! Rally Round 1

We're just getting home from the first round of the Rally America season. Crazy icy conditions out there like none of us had ever seen: it was like a skating rink or a luge run out there. I could have been faster on hockey skates.

Take a close look at the photo of us on the ice (shot by Mike Proulx of www.worldrallysport.com ). See that glare ice under the wheels? That wasn't even the worst of it.

Winter racing in those conditions is about keeping it tidy and making fewer mistakes than the competition. Especially when conditions are as bad as they were.

We came around a corner on one stage early on the first day to find Ken in his new Ford totally sideways in the road. He packed up and went home right after that.

We stayed in it, but got hung up on a snow bank and lost a whole bunch of time and dropped down to 8th overall. Big thanks to pro mountain bike riders Carl Decker and Adam Craig – both national team members who ride for Giant – who stopped in the middle of the race to yank us out so we didn't lose any more time shoveling.

We were on pace and won a stage late in the rally, but we knew coming back to win from 8th would be a pretty tall order. It took us most of the next day, but Worm (my co-driver, Jeremy Wimpey, goes by "Worm") and I were able to claw back four positions to end the race in 4th.

Great big thanks to the thousands of you who turned out to watch us race in the frigid Northern Michigan weather. Couldn't believe how many of you there were out there cheering us on at the spectator points and in the Super Special. Glad so many of you were able to score some NOS!

It wasn't the win we wanted, but it's some good strong points for Round 1 and we'll be back again in a month to kick it at 100 Acre Wood in southern Missouri February 26-27. Keep an eye on this spot and on www.acpracing.com for more details.

And if you've got any photos or video you'd like us to see, put 'em on the wall of our fan page on Facebook at ACP Rally or send us a note on YouTube at /ACPrally. Find us on Twitter at ACPRally, too.

TOP 10 NOSome moments in 2009: #6 AMS "HOTTEST LAP EVER" ...

in 2008, i had the idea that we should be looking for a team to sponsor that needed that chance, a chance to show the world what they're made of and support them to achieve that idea .. so i was in chicago on thanksgiving and martin i happen to have allot of friends in common, so we finally linked up the day after the holiday and talked about time attack and what he wanted to do with an evo x and the other forms of motorsports but this moment takes it in 2009 AMS was ruling the 2009 4 wheels driver redline time attack category but even though all the developmental R&D isseue AMS went though AMS still manage to come out on top even while on FIRE!!! 

TOP 10 NOSome moments in 2009: #6 goes to AMS "HOTTEST LAP EVER" ...

TOP 10 NOSome moments in 2009: #8 Forsberg turning point ... by DA Media (drift alliance media a.k.a andy)

happy new year everyone .. well who says that we CANT have our top 10 of 2009 in 2010 .. lol ... well to be honest i have been on vacation so i was living it up and haven't blogged for some time now .. 

since long beach, chris and i have been talking about brining home a championship .. at first it was a really hard thing to think about because of all the money put into the cars and teams till chris took #1 qualifier at long beach people noticed that keeping it simple stupid was the new pace .. then taking home more wins thought out the year really made the our pursuit to a championship even more realistic.. doubt NO .. superstitions YES ... there was even a point when i tough that i was "bad luck" i have never seen chris podium and didn't make it to event even thought that was my job too .. but that was broken at irwindale when he took home the 2009 FD championship ..   but the turning point of all this was when we went to seattle and the numbers started shaping up for a championship season .. and chris was in high gear to bring one home for the team ... and our friend andy @ drift alliance media was there to capture the moment .. this is our #8 NOSome moment in 2009 ... Chris Forsberg "turning point" Formula Drift Seattle 2009 

TOP 10 NOSome moments in 2009: #9 the NOS life ... by Kenny Cano (localscenemedia.com)

as the year comes to an end, i started thinking about all the great things that happened to me this year and the awesome people i met along the way...and not to mention how we dominated everything this year! one of the things that hit me the most was how my lifestyle has jumped from every form of motorsports out there, and every form of "car life" in the automotive space .. from imports to euros, domestics and more. 

but one thing that i didn't mention is the art form of our "car life." kenny cano was introduced to me by my best friend eugene shepard @ localscenemedia.com ... at first glance you would never think that he is an artist or let alone a film major!! after a whole summer kenny has grown closer to me, my brother and my life. not only is he a great friend but i dare say the best editor on the east coast to call into rank with will roegge, linhbergh, josh h, and more... "but i am still on TEAM LINHBERG" ... ohh yea ...  and not to mention our sexy TEAM PANDA crew 2 person car club hahah (his bmw is white and black and so is my SC) 

this video is dedicated to the people in our "car LIFE". watch the video, i just never want it to stop. with out people like this we would never be able to express ourselves ... thank you ! 

ernie .. TEAM LINHBERG (haha jk) 

teamNOS: "WE'RE KILLIN' IT!" Team AMS/NOS Energy Drink, Time Attack Championship!!!

You have to be kidding me ... AMS performance has now brought home NOS Energy Drink's First TIME ATTACK championship making up 1 out of now 3 championships this year .. Big thanks to Martin, Arne, Justin, Eric, Tim, Rich and the whole 30+ staff members over at AMS !!! Thank you for bringing home another Championship !! 

Team AMS/NOS Energy Drink Wins The Redline Time Attack Unlimited AWD Championship!!!

Kyle Busch - The Nationwide Champ!!!

Congrats again to Kyle Busch, the 2009 Nationwide Champion!!

This is NOS's first NASCAR Championship, and the second Team NOS Champ this year!  Check out these pictures from Kyle's big win in Miami on November 21.  Thanks to Darren and the team NOS members out in Miami for the pics!

NOS's "Under the Cap" Kyle Busch Sweepstakes Winner!

Congrats to the winner of NOS's Under the Cap Sweepstakes!  He and a friend went to last week's NASCAR race in Phoenix, met Kyle, and got VIP access through the NOS hospitality bus! 

Check out the photos...