I need you in my life again:

But silver again…or some bronze this time…hrmmmm

Tim was kind enough to drive up from Osaka to drop off some things. The 15 looks good as ever…

Said things included 17×9.5 rears for me to have fun with.

Sad it wasn’t as much fun for me to drive as it is to look at.

I don’t pretend to be very good, but of course when I throw a video up I edit it to make myself feel better and have you all think I’m a rad kinda dude. But lets be honest, your not pushing hard enough if your not hitting things or spinning and such. I grabed some close calls (since I never managed to crash) from a few track days.

Marvel at my horrid handle work. This is why I hate RHD haha. I did similar things in LHD but my hands never looked that retarded…enjoy!

Cool video I peeked from Alexi from this summer Matsuri. Really captures the feeling of the weekend. And you can see me for a microsecond at 2:08 at North course.

This car is sold, btw……seeing this makes me want to drive badly.

Spent at the beach! After a LONG 1st week back to work it was time for some fun. Headed to the beach with Masa and co along with a flatbed full of jet ski’s:

I had never been to this beach before, but it was just a quick hour and a half or so drive from my place. Still in Kyoto prefecture, looking out onto the Japan Sea

Another full day of alcohol and motorized vehicles ensued. Good times were had; skin was burt; and waves proved to be hard on the body (so I felt the next day…). I took the chance as we were getting ready to leave to snap some cool shots of the 15 with a seldom seen backdrop:

And I dont know why, but I like this last shot…car just looks cool for some reason:

On a side note…this may be some of the last shots I ever take of this car…

After the trip to Miyazaki I had some work to do, but just before school started up again I had a day or two free. I decided to head back to Suzuka since I had a ton of tires left over from Ebisu. So I made the quick trek over to Suzuka Twin only to find I was going to be the only one on track!

I spent most of the day practicing mid drift upshifts and such, but overall it was good to just be able to relax and get a solid 3 hours of track time in at my own pace. The video is nothing special, but if you compare to my previous video from Twin you can see (I hope) that I am feeling a bit more comfortable in the car.

So this end the coverage of the Kansai Allstar event. There is already talk of next years event so I know myself and many others are looking forward to it. To close, just wanted to toss up the small number of pics I took at the event. Click here to view the full set.

More updates soon…I’m still not up to date!

After watching the video in my last post, you may have seen Kawabata’s S15 getting crazy closeinto turn one. As a testament to his driving, he was able to get crazy close and not hit…regardless of who was in front of him. I’m told he didn’t know who was in front of him 1/2 the time but still stuck on their doors as practice. Here is his car a bit closer:

The car was a bit beat up from some fun from the previous day’s practice session….but after some runs with Nakamura the car was looking heaps more torn up:

After the open practice (in the previous post) Kawabata and Nakamua did some tandem runs and this was the result. Run after run they tapped the wall, or each other….Nakamura next to his masterpiece:

Kawabata thinking “Crap I gotta get home in this thing still”

So after a long trip back from a long weekend at Ebisu I had two days to rest up and prepare the car for a day at Meihan the following Wednesday. This is just a small number of pics from the day, be sure to check out the entire set. I would be heading out with my local Kameoka guys so I was really looking forward to the day. It was going to be a hot day so we decided to head out around 4:30am so we could get there a tad early and snag a few covered spaces. This meant waiting at the gate for about 45mins:

When we got in we were able to snag 2 covered spaces, something that was awesome around noon when it was near 31 degrees with near 90% humidty. Masa finally got his 86 fixed and it was awesome driving with him on track again:

Ryuta is his C33 Laurel brough a few tires….

It turned out to be a great day, and there were plenty of nice cars around. This was a big practive event for a lot of Kansai guys to get ready for the Kansai Allstar’s event that would be a few days later (more on that in a few posts). Here is the Zeik crew:

Meihan + wall + 3rd gear = be prepared:

And when do you hit…fix it quick. I dunno about this, but yes the dude ran on it like this:

This car from Mie was killing it all day. HKS 3071 & HKS sequential was cool to watch.

A local Kyoto guy’s C33 Laurel. Big top mount SR20 spinning deep deep 15″ SSR’s all the time.

The day for me was fun, and uneventful. Plenty of tire killing and no crashes or mecanical problems at all. Again, be sure to check the full set!