Formula Drift Las Vegas Day 1 and 2

We started on our journey for Las Vegas for the Formula Drift round, leaving Canada all loaded up, ready to rock. We were loaded a little lighter, as Toyo Tires has stepped up to help us out, and they were bringing out tires to the track for us. Ian, Pat, Trent and Ian's girl Felicia all loaded into the truck, and to quote Taco Bell, headed for the border...

Here we are at a rest stop in Oregon, Ian and Felicia decided to enjoy the ground... lol

then Felicia was teaching us Crouching Tiger Karate Kid moves.

Still driving, it is 1 million degres outside, and even hotter inside the truck. We cranked the heat to see how long we could take it, extreme!

In the lovely state of Nevada, we were just amazed at the crazy rock formations

and Alien Meat for sale.

After unloading the car, we went to some Vegas sights, here we are enjoying Fremont Street's offerings. Did I mention it is hot, like 35°C at night. 

The next day we hit up the outlets before heading to the practice, which started at 9pm, the outlet has some cool buildings around it, like this one...

while at the outlet, the Sham Wow sucked Ian in. The guy presented it so well, that we all bought one...

WOW

We headed to the track, and went to get our tires mounted. When we picked up our wheels from Toyo, we noticed the wrong tire size, we had ordered 245/40-18, but they brought us 225/40-18's. After a lot of talking, Rhys Millen offered us his 10 spare fronts that were the size we needed to use. Thanks so much Rhys. When we went and put them on the car, the over fenders had to be adjusted, the tire tread on Toyo R1R 245/40-18 is the same width as a 265/35-18 which is a lot wider then we expected. After the adjustments that Pat and Ian did, the car was flush and grippy.

Abbott and Ian from Seattle supervised the modifications...

9pm came up and practice started, Pat took the role of spotter, and Trent acted as the crew chief, Ian decided to be the driver, 

after many hours of practice, until 1am, we were tired hungry and a little grumpy, but still very happy with the new grip. There were a few hard crashes, including Fredric Aasbo, Tommy Roberts, and Forest Wang, their cars were severely damaged, which sucks. 

We leave you with the view from the stands of the track, Friday will be exciting.