Round #3 Crowns Yet Another New Winner!
Tues June 23rd 17:11:08 PST 2009

Round 3 of the competition points series has come and gone, and some major changes took place! Out of 3 rounds of competition, 3 different drivers have taken victory. This is keeping the points race from 1st-5th place very tight and exciting. Several drivers who consistently place mid-pack stepped up their driving and placed just barely outside of, if not inside the top 5. This is especially exciting because it will undoubtedly lead to even more new event-winners, keeping the points race on it's toes! Also exciting to the TD crew was the addition of 3 new drivers to the series. Jan Rodrigo of Union City, who has been a longtime participant at TD but first time competitor, Joshua Sher of Garberville, who has travelled cross-country several times hitting a multitude of drift events, and Andy Gillespie of Sonoma, who has been building and perfecting his SR20DE-T powered Miata since late 2007.

Judges Luke Lonberger, Richard Kong, and Yusef Wallace did a great job as ususal, especially in the face of such highly competitive and evenly-matched drivers. Luke came to the practice-event on Saturday and debuted his 700hp turbocharged LS1 powered S14, which was a crowd pleaser to say the least. Luke will be running this car in a few FD events this year, so keep an eye out for him on the podium!

ThunderDrift would like to sincerely thank Terence from snSPL photography , and Jonathan from Street Import Online magazine for covering the event. Also MAJOR thanks to our sponsors, Techno Toy Tuning for supplying a set of their subframe collars, Limitless Motorsports for a great discount for electrical labor, Laboratory17 for trophy photos, and MCE Racing for the 1st place trophy, and dashplaques.