YIDM 2012 through my lens, pt.1

Ever since I returned, all my friends were desperate to know, how was my experience at YIDM. Since I had no time to post any pictures during the competition, i at least can share them now.

   

Team "Drift Lab"

Lately, Saint petersburg competition scene have been refreshed with a new Evil Empire championship, which will consist of numerous stages and include team competitions as well. That is why i founded team "Drift lab". Team features me, as one of the strongest drivers in the city, and my protege, so to say. This combination is very promising, so we hope to win this year's championship.
He will be driving my Yokomo DIB , and i will stick to ARD for now.
Since we don't have the desired paint in the city, team bodies should be ready in a month or so.

SPB arena runs #1

Latest video update.

Japan Inspired Koguchi 180SX

I am sorry for not posting anything during the championship - I simply didn't have a spare minute, and WIFI was no the strongest point of Yatabe.

Major write-off is yet to come, and in the meanwhile, I would like to share something I brought from Japan. We don't have much color choice of Tamiya PS paints in Russia, so I made a body right where color choice is perfect - Japan.

 Only 2,5 days took me to make this body, so the paint job is, to be honest, is the worst i have ever done. But who cares, when it has 10 signatures of D1 drivers, Manabu Suzuki signature, and the manager of "team Suzuki" brand. This is much more important to me.

Kumakubo, Ueno, Taniguchi, Saito, Kawabata, Orido, Shinmi, Tokita, Nomura and 1 more signature, that I can not identify at the moment.

This, as a "Japanese inspired body", should have proper battle stickers and a big wing to spice things up. At this point I plan to stop the bodywork and get into hardware upgrades, modifying and setting.

Yokomo international drift meeting

Its happening

Rajicon track video

Here are a few clips from Super rajicon track. Although i had whole 2 hours of riding time, turned out my Yokomo R2 are super slippery on the surface. The speed was very low, but the car was very hard to control either, so it wasn't that easy. Basically, I filmed 90% of my riding time, so please excuse my minor mistakes, while I was getting used to the track.

Tokyo rc scene

Greetings from Tokyo. It's my second day here and I decided to visit some rc shops, thanks to my friend Re-xtreme, who made a wonderful guide.

So, anyway, my choice stopped at "rakusei models" because it was easy to find, and "super rajicon" as it had a small track.

Rakusei was really fun as the cashier knew English and helped me out to find what i need. Stock is good, but it's hard to find what you need.


All these parts, that we have to wait weeks to arrive to Russia, are all here on the sliding shelf, available to touch.