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DUFFM4N · 05-04-2009, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ericcastro

The only real copmplaint at ZT is the tech was way easier than they all prepared for, lol.

-course was slow
-unfair judging (mixture driftbox and other politics)
-drift box
-event being unorganized

97street_pearl · 05-04-2009, 05:10 PM

Event sucked, have to agree with everyone, $15 for parking

, whatever, another $35 for entrance, bunch of ugly ricer cars in carshow with ugly models (thumbs down), better cars in parking lot,few nice cars in the show including green s15, stood in line for food for a long time and when we were almost there, they ran out of rice for teriyaki bowl, room temperature sodas were $5

got sunburned like crazy, but overall, had a good time just hanging out. We were in the horseshoe section so the crowd made it fun cheering, Drift Box Sucks, and Do your Job to the staff after that guy got kicked out and booing the dumb girls that where shooting the stupid bail bond shirts! Only hot model was Ursula Mayes, she said whats up as we were walking along and I said what up and she smiled and laughed, she made my day i guess, lol

importantone · 05-04-2009, 08:49 PM

I talked hella shit with my friends... so we had a good time..

xpl2007 · 05-04-2009, 09:19 PM

What made my day was seeing Nick Hogan. lol

Z_Spool · 05-04-2009, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by ericcastro

This course is way different than Adams.
You werent there Friday to watch a Adams track hero flail all over and eventually hit th4e wall.

Hero? HA! Hardly. Watching him eat it in that POS made me smile.

Enough hating though. By far the best thing about the event was their treatment of the media.

Croan · 05-04-2009, 10:52 PM

so... 1st, yea, event totally sucked, and im super sunburnt. but watching drifting is always super fun.

soo...

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Originally Posted by jay c. sagano

D1 Grand Prix of JAPAN was never involved in this event. This event held by the US organizer with entire new coordinators. They only paid the name `D1 GP of USA` just to use for this event.
ONLY one coordinator whom works for the D1 GP of Japan brought those 5 drivers from Japan.
Believe me, they took the next day flight and went back .....

Hell, D1 Street Legal event was better than this one....

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Originally Posted by UNITEDMASTER

Hello all, I read the first page & skimed through the rest of the thread. Now if you go to the D1 "USA" site it gives all the clues as to what this event turned out to be. This US seris deal kinda, sorta has nothing to do with what the OG people have come to know D1 as.This is mearly US based business men(former HIN owners) that have an agreement with D1 JAPAN to use the name D1 and a few select JP drivers at the events to try & capitalize on the market/fans of what used to be D1 as we here on ZILVIA know it to be. In my opinion the rest of the "USA" schedule will most likely be weak sauce at the moment.As for FD driver attendance I think it was too close to the ATL round & many of those guys were on the fence about this "NEW" D1USA anyway. Only time will tell . I personally did not go to the event. Everything has its good & bad points on different levles & from different aspects so take it for what its worth for you.

Question how many JP drivers were there????

ERICCASTRO you are on point with your observation

sooo.. i have a question for you guys, if D1's next series was under the old management, staff, and drivers,,,,,, would you go?

& which do you prefer irwindale, or Anaheim(with new course layout).

yay

Ofc. Dangle · 05-04-2009, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by REDBULLDRIFTING

I suggest we boycott the midwest and east coast events, alert members of this freaking scam!

I am sorry you had a negative experience with this event and the rest of the people who felt this event was terrible. I will not boycot this event and I don't think anyone should. This was there first event as a series in the US. If the rest of the season goes like this then by all means boycot but at least give them a chance to improve from this. If you boycot them before giving them a chance to improve then we will never know what could/would have happen with the series. I for one would like to see the door to door tandems and see the privateers/local scene drivers get a chance to battle the best in Japan. I support everything this event/series stands for. Its gives the up and coming guys a chance at fame. I am all about the grassroots of drifting but I definetly support the pro level aspect of drifting.

DDDsquad_s13panda · 05-05-2009, 12:26 AM

maybe like 3-4 out of 35 models were good looking, including these 3
if anyone know the two asian girls with me in the green let me know... their fawkin HOT! LMAO

I WAS A HAPPY CAMPER =D, lmao. naw, freals they bombdig, and if its your sister, g/f, or relative. tell her shes HOT! both of them.. hahaha

4DOOR_LIFE · 05-05-2009, 01:06 AM

Yeah it was definitely a disappointing event. i was excited to take my gf to her first drift event. especially after telling her about all the d1 events ive been to n watching all my option dvds with her. i know for her it was rather exciting, but as everyone else said. i sure do miss the irwindale days. there were just so many things wrong about the event, most of which have been said already. the commentator totally ruined the event and he didnt know shit about anything. amazing looking at the crowd now and then looking back when i went to my first d1 event in 2004. as long as my gf had a good time i was happy. but she was pissed when nomuken failed to qualify.

on another note, it was cool seeing hella zilvians cars all over the place. i guess the next time i head down to socal its for ASB

stupid toyotafest being the same weekend as mothers day and Thunderdrift.

my favorite part of the event was buying that last set of dmax crystal tail lights for the s13 coupe for $150 ! !yay me!!

andisan · 05-05-2009, 01:27 AM

yeah it sucked D1 is dead it will never be like before I was also at the back coner stands raissing hell and instead of doing the wave we all just flipped the middle finger to the announcer, Who was horrible and also way to much DUB and not enough JDM.
Ill problably be my last one.

silvialove · 05-05-2009, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by DDDsquad_s13panda

The one on the left was the only "model" i thought was alright
Petite Body + Big Knockers= Win

karl wasabi · 05-05-2009, 03:05 AM

The model on the right is actually one of my friends. In fact we got some boba after D1. lol.

*brndck* · 05-05-2009, 03:40 AM

the chick on the left is super bon-kyu-bon! delicious!!!

Brian · 05-05-2009, 10:07 AM

^^^^^^

lol at BON-KYU-BON.

cxlo8331 · 05-05-2009, 10:55 AM

Girl on left is VERY cute.

ericcastro · 05-05-2009, 10:59 AM

I think some of you that get it are speaking up which is nice.

I here you complain about the car show shit, but then complain the models aren't hot enough. The models come wit the cars and the booths guys.

(BTW, anyone have pictures of that latin girl that was in front of that lowrider just standing there with her ass showing to the crowd??
I was just driving by and coupldnt stop to look

lol

MEDIA
it did seem like they just let media do whatever the fuck they wanted. Thats great. I was shooting Pro event for 2 years and never understood why we didnt get free rain as media. Cause thats whats gonna sell to the nation is the pics.
I saw so many holes that were cut into the fence. Good on you media.
Not to mention those barriers were probably not up to racetrack spec, and they let media go were ever they wanted behind them.

Im sure it will progressivly get better.
And I personally like seeing the up and comers getting to battle the JPN guys on a smaller course. Cause if they had to battle FD drivers on Irwindale, it would be a boring, HP drift contest.

DOOR 2 DOOR 2 DOOR !!!! FTW.

And the crowd was out of control! which was great!! it brought everyone together and gave it more of a grass roots feel where everyone was actually part of something!

sideways_s14 · 05-05-2009, 01:25 PM

yea, drove down from norcal with high hopes being that this was the first event in a few years, figured they were going to go all out to re-establish D1 as the premier drift gran prix. half of my favorite drifters weren't there, nomuken not qualifying!? complete load of garbage right there. toshiki losing the round for straightening out, even though the previous run he killed that car 3/7. barely any major vendors there, save greddy and, well, greddy

car show had sub-par cars that weren't even worth taking pix of. could care less about the models, half of them were bull-dogs anyway. only food i ate there was the kettle corn. those parading gumball jackasses were honestly pissing me off trying to show-off, I'll hand it to that mustang doing donuts, the er34(until he attempted to drift, sorry man, had to

) the ford gt sounded beastly! that firebird with the wheels so big you could lay in them, lol. kinda sad, but I actually lost interest after toshiki got eliminated and left before it came to the final 8. the only highlight of the trip was visiting Autobacs for the first time and finding HELLA stuff 40% off, man, forreal, ya'll need to go over there, they priced matched the cheapest prices i could find online right there, no joke!

karl wasabi · 05-05-2009, 01:42 PM

Totally forgot about this, but one of the highlights of the show for me was watching some of the members of Sublime play their classic hits. That was cool...

DDDsquad_s13panda · 05-05-2009, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by karl wasabi

The model on the right is actually one of my friends. In fact we got some boba after D1. lol.

well karl tell her whatsup for me =]....and her friend =D

yea i didnt really catch the concert.. and i wasnt feelin all that low rider and extreme autofest stuff in the back....

and that civic with BMW front and rear conversion's on 20's....

Avante · 05-05-2009, 04:59 PM

the one on the left is bunk.

the one on the right is where the money is at.

legs for days.

xpl2007 · 05-05-2009, 07:41 PM

Ill still go to any event that evolves drifting its just i was shocked!
We are killing the good things about drifting here in the states.
But i could care less. As long as there is some place to drift im good.

wow-thats-a-cool-car · 05-06-2009, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by karl wasabi

Totally forgot about this, but one of the highlights of the show for me was watching some of the members of Sublime play their classic hits. That was cool...

WTF the remaining members or sublime where there??? I would have stayed and watch them!!! Was this advertised at all?

Did anyone else notice there were no trash cans anywhere? There was trash every where and like 4 trash cans. I'm a neat freak sometimes lol

karl wasabi · 05-06-2009, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by wow-thats-a-cool-car

WTF the remaining members or sublime where there??? I would have stayed and watch them!!! Was this advertised at all?

Did anyone else notice there were no trash cans anywhere? There was trash every where and like 4 trash cans. I'm a neat freak sometimes lol

Yeah dude. It says right on the flier. In fact I have it at my desk. It says. "LBC Performance 1:20PM" haha. I didn't know who it was but when I saw them, and heard them, I knew. lol.

And you...a neat freak???? HAH!!!!

wow-thats-a-cool-car · 05-06-2009, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by karl wasabi

Yeah dude. It says right on the flier. In fact I have it at my desk. It says. "LBC Performance 1:20PM" haha. I didn't know who it was but when I saw them, and heard them, I knew. lol.

And you...a neat freak???? HAH!!!!

Have you ever been in my house? Its always like super clean lol. I can't sleep if my house is dirty.

Oilcover · 05-06-2009, 03:42 AM

near-wallpaper-size version for all of you
who helped us let the powers-that-be know
what we thought of their little device.

ericcastro · 05-06-2009, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by wow-thats-a-cool-car

......... I would have stayed and watch them!!! Was this advertised at all?

you are talking shit on an event you didnt stay for??
WTF Devin??
it only got good after that show!!
Tandem didn't even start till after that i dont think.
and definatly not top 8!!

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Originally Posted by Oilcover

near-wallpaper-size version for all of you
who helped us let the powers-that-be know
what we thought of their little device.

TY, lol.

yusk8ing · 05-07-2009, 02:21 AM

the event was alright. honestly after no d1 at all for 2008 in the socal area it was pretty cool. but i think the only jdm thing there was the para para white kids!

craiglieberman · 07-14-2009, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ericcastro

you go fan boy.

Actually, the tandem drift was the best I have seen in the states in years.
And I usually go to all the events and sit right on the track and shoot.

They are out of money.
This series is on a shoe string budget.

Not sure if Im supposed to put it publically, sooooo.
some of you dont have the smarts to put 2 and 2 together, so..
Like I stated before..............
There is a reason FD drivers arent there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what giant money sucking, bleeding the sport for everything it has organization would want D1GP to fail????

VIP people were in the pit area, sneaking free lunch while staff and drivers and pit crew had to wait for more to be made because of it.
VIP people apparently couldt be bothered to walk around the backs of the cars that were getting ready to run down the track.
VIP people thought it meant they had no rules.
Sorry some wrecked it for others.
No one wanted to kick VIP out m sure, but it became neccesary.

yeah, boycott it!!!!
FD becomes the only drift series.
Drifting Professionally looses even more touch,
even less skill,
more money sucking companies getting their dirty palms involved.
more shitty looking cars.
more unfair tech decisions on who passes through tech according to rules.
more biased judging
more fanboys
more keeping the privateer/newguy down
more of the same 5 guys rotating around the podium
more stupid FWD cars being converted to RWD
more of the same FD that everyone hates

So yeah,
boycott D1, the only people that are making an attempt at a real series with real internationl drifting. the guys that are going for a indy/F1 feel, over Nascar feel.

Sorry to disagree here, but your analysis is flawed.

Having two series means that sponsors now have to choose in a bad way: do they sponsor one series, or both series. Meanwhile, the drifters are going after the same group of sponsors. Dividing the pie between sanctioning bodies means that everyone gets a smaller piece of the pie and most of all, the privateers get left in the cold.

How do I know this? 5 years of managing my own racing series and 20 years of Marketing.

Your counter point that D1GP is on a shoe string budget proves my point...if a legitimate, "big name" series can't get funded, what makes you think privateers can?

The "biased" judging of FD may be a debatable point, but ANY subjective judging will ALWAYS be questionable. In D1GP's point, flawed technology with that ridiculous Drift Box fiasco did little to lend credibility to D1's methodology.

As for the "money sucking" companies getting involved, dude...which sponsors are money suckers? Which ones aren't? I'm curious. Either you want corporate dollars to support the sport, or you don't.

What has been misquoted on this site 20x is that HIN is NOT owned by the same guys. The current "owners" of D1GP are FORMER owners of HIN. They have a long history of building successful events.

However, as for their promises of extensive media coverage, TV coverage and "setting a new bar" for drift events, let's just say they have much work to do.

This was their first event. Granted, it might have missed the mark. Hopefully, they're reading this and make the necessary changes. If they don't have it sorted out by season's end, the public and the drifters will have spoken, even if silently so (by not attending future events).

Nothing pisses me off more than invisible staff at an event and Nazi security.

I just came from FD Vegas and it was a good event, by contrast. Still, there is judging controversy...what's new. But it was well organized, had good turnouts and was entertaining.

I'm all for competition...but one consideration trumps all others: EVERYONE is struggling for dollars right now. Having ANOTHER drifting series means FEWER dollars for everyone. Don't believe me? Look at the history of import drag racing. Having FOUR sanctioning bodies at one time literally killed the sport in less than 4 years.

ttLOVEjh s13 · 07-23-2009, 07:43 PM

I had a smoke with Kumakubo or Kubo SAn and offer him a red bull....

krazyfil · 07-26-2009, 04:21 PM

i know im a lil late on this... but here is a link to my myspace pic folder with all my pics from the event... and wtf was up with the guy being kicked out of the event for cleaning up the track when the officials wouldnt do their job? and yes.. drift box was straight garbage

Daddy Phil's Gumball 3000/ D1GP Anaheim Photo Album - MySpace Photos

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xpl2007 Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Newport Beach Posts: 1,489 Trader Rating: (15) Feedback Score: 15 reviews	What made my day was seeing Nick Hogan. lol __________________ http://zilvia.net/f/traderratings.html?u=57636 If i sold you something or gave you it for free post here! Thanks!

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DDDsquad_s13panda BANNED Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Fontana, IE. Age: 34 Posts: 550 Trader Rating: (7) Feedback Score: 7 reviews	maybe like 3-4 out of 35 models were good looking, including these 3 if anyone know the two asian girls with me in the green let me know... their fawkin HOT! LMAO I WAS A HAPPY CAMPER =D, lmao. naw, freals they bombdig, and if its your sister, g/f, or relative. tell her shes HOT! both of them.. hahaha Last edited by DDDsquad_s13panda; 05-05-2009 at 12:28 AM.. Reason: sorry

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97street_pearl Leaky Injector Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: OC/LACalifornia Age: 47 Posts: 118 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Event sucked, have to agree with everyone, $15 for parking , whatever, another $35 for entrance, bunch of ugly ricer cars in carshow with ugly models (thumbs down), better cars in parking lot,few nice cars in the show including green s15, stood in line for food for a long time and when we were almost there, they ran out of rice for teriyaki bowl, room temperature sodas were $5 got sunburned like crazy, but overall, had a good time just hanging out. We were in the horseshoe section so the crowd made it fun cheering, Drift Box Sucks, and Do your Job to the staff after that guy got kicked out and booing the dumb girls that where shooting the stupid bail bond shirts! Only hot model was Ursula Mayes, she said whats up as we were walking along and I said what up and she smiled and laughed, she made my day i guess, lol

05-05-2009, 01:06 AM	#189
4DOOR_LIFE Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: SF to the PNW Age: 32 Posts: 1,479 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	Yeah it was definitely a disappointing event. i was excited to take my gf to her first drift event. especially after telling her about all the d1 events ive been to n watching all my option dvds with her. i know for her it was rather exciting, but as everyone else said. i sure do miss the irwindale days. there were just so many things wrong about the event, most of which have been said already. the commentator totally ruined the event and he didnt know shit about anything. amazing looking at the crowd now and then looking back when i went to my first d1 event in 2004. as long as my gf had a good time i was happy. but she was pissed when nomuken failed to qualify. on another note, it was cool seeing hella zilvians cars all over the place. i guess the next time i head down to socal its for ASB stupid toyotafest being the same weekend as mothers day and Thunderdrift. my favorite part of the event was buying that last set of dmax crystal tail lights for the s13 coupe for $150 ! !yay me!!

05-05-2009, 01:27 AM	#190
andisan Nissanaholic! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Lompoc CA 805!!!! Age: 37 Posts: 2,049 Trader Rating: (12) Feedback Score: 12 reviews	yeah it sucked D1 is dead it will never be like before I was also at the back coner stands raissing hell and instead of doing the wave we all just flipped the middle finger to the announcer, Who was horrible and also way to much DUB and not enough JDM. Ill problably be my last one.

05-05-2009, 10:55 AM	#195
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05-05-2009, 01:25 PM	#197
sideways_s14 Zilvia Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Nickle&Dime, CA Posts: 210 Trader Rating: (8) Feedback Score: 8 reviews	yea, drove down from norcal with high hopes being that this was the first event in a few years, figured they were going to go all out to re-establish D1 as the premier drift gran prix. half of my favorite drifters weren't there, nomuken not qualifying!? complete load of garbage right there. toshiki losing the round for straightening out, even though the previous run he killed that car 3/7. barely any major vendors there, save greddy and, well, greddy car show had sub-par cars that weren't even worth taking pix of. could care less about the models, half of them were bull-dogs anyway. only food i ate there was the kettle corn. those parading gumball jackasses were honestly pissing me off trying to show-off, I'll hand it to that mustang doing donuts, the er34(until he attempted to drift, sorry man, had to ) the ford gt sounded beastly! that firebird with the wheels so big you could lay in them, lol. kinda sad, but I actually lost interest after toshiki got eliminated and left before it came to the final 8. the only highlight of the trip was visiting Autobacs for the first time and finding HELLA stuff 40% off, man, forreal, ya'll need to go over there, they priced matched the cheapest prices i could find online right there, no joke! __________________ Ramese Silvia S14-RB25Neo

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karl wasabi Post Whore! Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Walnut/SoCal Posts: 3,898 Trader Rating: (41) Feedback Score: 41 reviews	Totally forgot about this, but one of the highlights of the show for me was watching some of the members of Sublime play their classic hits. That was cool... __________________ Karl Wasabi Private Seller - Review Thread

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05-07-2009, 02:21 AM	#207
yusk8ing Leaky Injector Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: arleta Age: 33 Posts: 93 Trader Rating: (6) Feedback Score: 6 reviews	the event was alright. honestly after no d1 at all for 2008 in the socal area it was pretty cool. but i think the only jdm thing there was the para para white kids!

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07-26-2009, 04:21 PM	#210
krazyfil Zilvia Addict Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: bakersfield, CA Age: 38 Posts: 753 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	i know im a lil late on this... but here is a link to my myspace pic folder with all my pics from the event... and wtf was up with the guy being kicked out of the event for cleaning up the track when the officials wouldnt do their job? and yes.. drift box was straight garbage Daddy Phil's Gumball 3000/ D1GP Anaheim Photo Album - MySpace Photos __________________ Photos coquines gratuites

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