The culture at these events is very respectful, very fair and very self sustaining. I swear these guys, and gals, could all be stuck on a desert island with a race track and everything they needed to drift for thirty years, and never have any fights, and quarrels or qualms, just happy drifters drifting. It's really like a family out here in the drifting world, and that, I love. Here's Nate Schewick, Mr. Antonov and a buddy of his looking savage.
There were some grassroots drifting favorites including the Drift Union Subaru Legacy and the Villains rigs which I didn't get any shots of because I had to bail for the second day of the event but no doubt always put on a show, additionally there were some Seattle folks and one feller all the way from Canada, what a trek and what a worth while trip he must have thought he made.
Stateline Drift is just coming into their better years of drifting in my opinion, starting from humble beginnings with a Facebook page that sprouted the occasional parking lot rental to lay some skid marks to now having full access to a 2.4 mile road course, with some of the best third gear corners in the northwest.
This AE86 was a fun one to see out on track and was the first of the 86's that I saw in person to have an SR engine swap. He was having a good time out there and showing many his great driving skills with a difficult chassis.
This corner seems to be one I shoot a lot at SCR the corner marshal stand adds some more interest and solidifies that we are indeed at a racetrack and not some open country road which is sometimes the case with the track as you have well seen and will see more of later in the post. The blue car above is the one from Canada.
This 86 is a bit more well known especially in the Seattle area for its Lexus v8 swap which has a very peculiar exhaust note and keeps the Toyota guys happy by keeping their Toyota Toyota and not turning them Nissan or Honda.
This RHD rx-7 from Garage52 always looks good out on track but always seems to run into mechanical problems at every weekend I've seen it, Ive only got a few decent pics of such a pretty car.
Another one from Garage52 that is now growing on me, this car looks great from some angles and kinda like garbage from others, no idea why but it does.
Another shot of the Shinchoku car from Seattle. This Shinchoku s13 is competing in the evergreen Pro-Am and is doing pretty well last time I checked the grassroots event coverage pages.
Later in the day I was getting kinda hot and needed some shade but really wanted to keep shooting so I found a tree, one of like three in the whole racing complex, climbed it and turned out to get some interesting shots, not sure if its to distracting or captures the oh so important element of interest we photographers fight for.
This is probably the best one I got from the tree, really did my best to use a slow shutter speed to have blur the trees, but still have the car sharp to keep a good focal point, to bad, aside from the actual drifting of this car it looks like a drifting junkyard on wheels.
Another one of a pretty good looking cressida at the event. this was the only Cressida at the event and I am glad it showed up, the ratio of s13/14 chassis cars in the Inland Northwest is almost unhealthy. so props to the driver for showing up and off.
This feller was one of the better looking Pumps on the track, unfortunately at the end of the first day during the tandem competition, it got in a bit of scuffle and lost some front end, I almost wanted to cry because its such a nice car.
from what I picked up the two involved in the collision were both in drift and the car behind, hit this car as it had to much speed and drifted into this car slowing down to avoid another collision in front of it, merely an accident of drifting.. as unfortunate as it is.
As you can see the front end is a bit tweaked and the upper right frame did end up getting bent from the collision. Its good to see that this guy wasn't to butt hurt and got it back to the pit without to much trouble.
As you van see the other car came away unscathed and drove to the pits under its own power.
After the little mishap with these two S-chassis cars the tandem competition continued for another 10-15 min until the first days award ceremony.
Cody Hall is always looking good out on track and knows how to drift this corner pretty dang well.
These are some of the earlier images from the practice of the whole course. The waste gate on this yellow s13 was to die for, every time it came by I got shivers down my spine.
This is the other Seattle guy that showed up. I've never seen this set of over fenders on an s13 before and I have to say at the right angle it looks pretty nice. This Shinchoku rig is driven by Matt Vankirk. he also participates in evergreen pro-am
Here's that pretty looking s15 again.
And the V86 shot from the tree on the back corner, I really liked this angle but getting a good shot was pretty hard especially considering because only a third of the cars had the power to link this corner from the previous one.
Josh Sewell
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