TAG Heuer Monaco 24
“Custom built in industrial-grade tungsten, the three arrows of the oscillating weight echoes a GT car’s chrome mags. The TAG Heuer MONACO 24 Concept Chronograph features the iconic blue and orange livery of Gulf Oil. The TAG Heuer MONACO 24 Concept Chronograph is water resistant to 100 meters and features an anti-reflective double-sided treatment on the curved sapphire scratch-resistant crystal glass.”
So still not caught up here..but anyways. The Sunday before I started back teaching I had some free time and ran up to a local shop called High Bridge 4×4. For the full set of pics, check here! Along as a full service shop for all your off-road needs, they have a huge playground in back. So a few of my freinds with Suzuki Jimny’s came out and we all played for a bit.
It was actually the 1st time I ever tried driving anything offroad, and it is much more complicated and downright freaky than I thought. Being a car that is sitting at a 45 degree angle to the ground just didn’t feel right….
I managed not to roll…but a few rolled more than once. As you can tell by the looks of the trucks it doesn’t really matter when they do though. We would just push it back right side up and they would keep on going. I wasn’t sure what to expect but I had an awesome time.
I for sure found yet another thing I want to spend all my money on. Luckly these things are cheap to snag and are tough as nails. I need a daily anyway….
For the full set of pics I snapped, be here to check here!
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!
BM Hai 2000 Kansai
Track looks so scary! Not even paved out to the wall into the 1st corner.
Last week was the 3rd round of D1SL at Nikko. After round 2 at Ebisu, Teramachi was tied for 3rd place in points and Fukuyama was down in 10th, so round 3 for both would be critical. They needed some good results to not only stay in points but also for Fukuyama it was a race to stay a seeded driver.
Kansai OG Kuroi went with the both of them as a spotter, and it seemed to be a start of great event when Team Stance/Origin placed 1st & 2nd in the qualification round! Fukuyama with a 99.13 and Teramachi with a 99.10 from the judges.
Both drivers went into the top 16 riding high, the both of them won their respective runs and moved into the top 8.
Moving into the top 8, Fukuyama was up against Kyushu native Hirashima in the orange Garage D-Friends S14 and Teramachi was up against fellow Kansai native Nakamura in the D-Max S15. Sadly both drivers weren’t able to overcome these two seasoned drivers and their hopes of a podium finish ended there, in the top 8.
The good showing in qualification and into the top 8 however meant some good points were had by both drivers. Fukuyama is now up from 10th into 8th, but Teramachi lost some ground to Tezuka and now follows him in 4th by only 3 points but both remain seeded going into round 4 at Maze. Nakamura Naoki went on to beat fellow Dmax driver Yokoi Masashi (also of the popular MSC Triple D team Mind Control).
2004 D1 @ Ebisu, a little know driver to most, Hibino wows fans and judges with his amazing speed and angle into the 1st turn. Up through the ranks, he meets Nomuken in the best 16. The 1st round Hibino has room for a pass and goes for it, Nomuken however sees that Hibino is going to be able to make the pass…and promptly corrects and turns into the 86 (knocking off the Skylines front bumper & the 86′s rear). It is evident in the in-car footage that this was intentional, however they are told to run one more time. The video above is the “one more time” and as you can see, Hibino clearly wipes the floor with Nomuken. It was clear to everyone who won…but there is a lot of talk in the judges stand..they even take off their headsets and mic so viewers can’t hear the conversation. They make a decision, but clearly Orido isn’t happy with it, he looks pissed. Nomuken moves on. This one round, in the top16 of the 2004 season changed D1 for me. In fact I think it also affected Orido, as he soon after announced he would stop judging and would compete in his Supra.
No D1 windshield banners, no D1 sponsor roll call stickers
No politics, no huge name sponsors, barley any saftey rules
Full qualifiying on video option, full spec rundowns of winners
no grandstands, no boring highspeed courses
Nikko, DEC, Sugo Kart, Bihoku, Fisco, Tsukuba
No speed gun, no drift box, no “one-more-time”
No race suits, no pit crews
Maybe it’s so good, becuase we can’t bring it back
And an even older one that never gets old:
