San Jose Grand Prix 07

[vietazndude]

hello,
these past two days ive been at the grand prix, its cool, my second time going here (back in 05 was my first) theres all sorts of series, the main is the champ car series, atlantic, Formula BMW, Classic stock car and drifting, drifting is just showing off so yea lol. i got some vids but first race was today and it was formula BMW, vid is here

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/th_87135cb7.jpg (http://s62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/?action=view&current=87135cb7.flv)

thats the cars lining up for the green flag

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/th_dbcadc97.jpg (http://s62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/?action=view&current=dbcadc97.flv)

DRIFTING
EDIT

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/Picture055.jpg

what one of the drifters put in their car
(anyone notice photobucket uploading video is really slow?)

so its great, today is the last day, and the day where all the important races begin, this is a great event, they set up all these displays and they also give away free stuff. rockstar FTW! for giving away free rockstar.
more pics and vids coming soon

[tayyab]

nice rules lol. ya i have noticed photobucket is uploadin real slow, i wonder why?
any nice vids

[DrIfToRDIe]

did you see ryhs millen or ken gushi or calvin wan?,if so than YOUR SO LUCKY!

[vietazndude]

did you see ryhs millen or ken gushi or calvin wan?,if so than YOUR SO LUCKY!

nah man, i got autographed by ken gushi 2 years ago. thats the only guy i remember lol. this year, the only guy on the drifting circuit i know was hiro s.(i forgot the last name)

[DrIfToRDIe]

does ken gushi still drive the mustang?

[firebird999]

you were there?
you're lucky to guy!
(read the "i got a propulse" thread if you don't get that.)

[vietazndude]

does ken gushi still drive the mustang?

yes sir he still does, oh dude yesterday i noticed that i saw calvin wan! :o
he was in an rx7 instead of his falken g35 which i really wanted to see :mad:
:(

anyways i finally got some vids, i got lots of vids because the cars were too fast for me to take pictures. it was awesome, winner of the champ car race was...... robert doornbos and woo! i got his autograph, well actually, i got all the champ car drivers autographs :nod:

well now for some vids

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/th_47efa1ce.jpg (http://s62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/?action=view&current=47efa1ce.flv)
the start

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/th_e76de0f0.jpg (http://s62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/?action=view&current=e76de0f0.flv)

the finish (look how far robert is from the rest)

oh and drifting news,from my memory, dai yoshihara, calvin wan, hiro sumida, and some other americans that i dunno their names were there. my favorite was this

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/Picture014.jpg

yes thats a mustang drift cop, short vid here

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/th_26d90d7c.jpg (http://s62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/?action=view&current=26d90d7c.flv)

now some pictures!

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/Picture117-1.jpg

fedex on the race track? just to deliever a 2 million dollar check to atlantic series driver raphael matos

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/vietazndude/Picture054.jpg

its.... my kind of hybrid, that my friends is an eletric prototype racer which goes 0-60 in 3.7 i believe and gets 170 MPG

i know its not a lot but stupid photobucket is Slooooow

[texan_idiot25]

Actually... an electric car gets 0 miles to the gallon, because it uses no gas ;)

Cool videos though :)