Hat trick for Massa in Turkey

Felipe Massa took the pole and held off valiant efforts by Hamilton to take his 3rd Turkish in a row. Again, I had to “watch” the race via Formula1.com’s live timing system. I had high hopes for Heikki who qual’d in 2nd..but nothing is really going his way this year it seems. I glad he is in the car though, after his crash last round. Thanks to a tip by Dom, I hope to be able to actually see these races soon!

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Now all I need to do is also find out how to catch next weeks Italian round of the WRC…

New(ish) Podcast

So they changed the book on us, and therefore we had to start with a new set of ideas for our podcasts. We tried to make a cheezy intro ala cheezy 80’s and 90’s tv show intros:

Some of our inspiration:

Good tunes

The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (Craziest video ever!)

Trentemøller - Take Me Into Your Skin

Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (Trentemoller Remix)

Twins & Mag coverage

So, I made my favorite little quick meal for dinner, and I had twins.

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First I thought to myself, “this must be a lucky meal!” But as I began to eat, my thoughts quickly turned to the possible problems….mainly I thought of Blinky, and that my twins may be the result of increased pollution here in Japan. So to ease myself I began to look up how common these types of eggs are, and ran across this article. I was promptly disgusted by the quad-yoke egg, but somehow it made me fine with eating my twins. So, in the end, I did indeed enjoy my wholesome (albeit cholesterol packed) dinner.

~FIN~

So anyway, the 4th issue of Wrecked is out! There is a quick 4 page spread of Simba and I talking smack about each other. Classic!

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Found on Yahoo Japan

So I’m not a big fan of the R33 Skyline, at all. But I ran across this ECR33 and thought to myself, I’d drive that! It’s going for about $5000 right now, but with 8 days left I’m sure it will break $10k or so.

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Full BN aero, in my favorite Midnight Purple. SSR Agle Minerva’s in a nice 10J front and 11J rear. On top of all those goodies, for good measure it has a RB26 swap…I could handle that. For the auction, click here. Or for some more pics, click here.

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みどりの日

Green day…no school = a day off for me. Too bad I seemed to have caught a cold of some sort. But Chris has a stockpile of NyQuil and Tylenol so I was determined to go on about my day. I had to run down to Shijo-kawaramachi to pay back a freind I owed some money to, and decided I’d visit a few of my favorite place in the process. 1st on the list was my favorite cafe, right off of Teramachi, Cafe Lulu. Why I love Cafe Lulu? LocoMoco!

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A`quick stop at the Kyoto Onitsuka Tiger shop:

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Picked up a new wallet to replace my tired one (on the left) from Real Free:

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A stop at one of the better cafe/vinyl shops in the area, Japonica:

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Couple all these cool places with a ear-full of DJ Krush, and it made for a fun day despite my head cold.

Results

So I was forced to “watch” the race via Formula1’s live time timing:

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Another interesting race, but Räikkönen kept his lead and kept 1st, 2nd for Massa and 3rd for Hamilton. Sadly my boys Kovalainen and Bourdais both retired. You can see the full results, here.

The Jordan WRC rally also ended, with Mikko Hirvonen winning the inaugural Jordan round. Since Loeb retired, Mikko now has a 5point lead in the drivers’ championship. Read more, here.

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And on to D1! 1st went to my old favorite, Koguchi! 2nd went to Daigo and 3rd to Tezuka. I’m really happy KO got a win, its his 1st D1 win to my knowledge, and the 1st podium finish since his win at last years D1SL at Ebisu in his JZX100. Congrats to him, I hope he keeps it up for a few more rounds.

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Race weekend!

There are a ton of events going on this weekend! The one I wish I was able to catch on tv is the Spanish GP. Sadly I can’t seem to find a place to watch it here in Japan. After Saturday qualifications, current points leader Kimi Räikkönen sits on pole, the 15th of his career. My hopes are still on Heikki and Bourdais to do something special ;)

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This weekend is also race weekend for the 2008 WRC season, in Jordan. The Jordan rally is new to the circuit, and Sebastien Loeb was looking for his 3rd straight win as he had taken a comfortable lead after day two, but his rally ended on day three when he “collided with a privately-entered Citroen driven by Zimbabwean Conrad Rautenbach on a narrow, blind corner after the 11th stage.” You can read more, here. The end of the rally for the 4time champion leaves a three way battle between Finland’s Jari-Matti Latvala, his BP-Ford team-mate Mikko Hirvonen and the remaining Citroen of Sordo. It should shape up to be an interesting rally.

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This weekend is also round 2 of the 2008 D1 Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway. After Saturday, Kuroi is #1 of the un-seeded with a 100pint run at 185km/h (115mp/h) in his trusty one-via. He is followed by Daigo in his JZ100. The other big news, Taniguchi is back after 2 years in his HKS Altezza, so it should be an interesting event. Last round’s winner Kawabatta is the #1 seeded driver, but will be driving a 180sx fitted with new Gp-Sports aero and an OriginType2 hood. Take a look at more shots via Wrecked.

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I can’t wait to see/hear the results of all these events. Oh, and to top it off, today is the 1st event of ClubFR’s 2008 season at USAIR….. I wish i could drive :(

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Oh THAT car…

I just realized that the JZX100 I posted about (here) is actually the car that Robbie Nishida drove at Ebisu a few weeks ago in the 1st round of the 2008 D1 season. (pics thanks to Japanese Used Cars)

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Wonder what (if?) he is driving this weekend at D1 Fuji? **EDIT** According to D1gp’s site, he drove a FD but did not make it to the main event.

Giza and Yakiniku

Chris just finished up our 2nd podcast, and this time we are heading to Egypt!

 

And the other night I ran back to Kameoka to pick up my atm card from the bank. After, I went and had dinner at my favorite yakiniku joint, Azi-sen! This is the same place all you TF guys came to with me when you came and visited my last year. Some of the best kalbi, yuke and tounge (yes, tounge) that I’ve had in awhile.

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The below yuke, has to one of my all-time favs:

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And kalbi to finish up!

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ごちそう~さま!