A Night With Scion Racing @ Far East Cafe 3/29/12

Written by: Kirby Quinto
Photos: Javier Taizan (Contributor)  

Another exciting season of Formula Drift is upon us and I’m pretty excited to see what this season brings.  One team that will be delivering the goods this year is Scion Racing.  One of the most anticipated vehicle models to hit the streets is going to be unleashed at Stop 1 of the Formula Drift series in Long Beach, CA on April 6-7.  The new Scion FRS will be driven by none other than Ken Gushi.  

Fredric Aasbo will be returning this year with the Need For Speed 2nd Gen tC and new Scion Racing driver Tony Angelo will be taking over the old Ken Gushi tC with a whole new look and performance additions.

The FRS driven by Ken Gushi was built by the world famous company Greddy.  The folks at Greddy sure put in the work on this car.  From the motor work, suspension set up, body adjustments, and perfect styling.  This car looks amazing!  Now I didn’t get into many details about modifications other than the car being very nice.  

The event was a lot of fun.  Media outlets from all over was present.  Seems like anytime Scion mentions showing the FRS, people swarm from everywhere.  Which is great and the public is anticipating to get their hands on the FRS.  What I can’t wait for is to see how the privateer builder puts one together.  The FRS in my personal opinion is the car you can definitely personalize into your own monster race car.  

It was good seeing some old friends and acquaintances at last night’s event.  Thank you Scion Racing for hosting another fun and memorable event.  Till the next one.  Cheers!

Links: 

Scion: http://www.scion.com/
Scion Racing:  http://www.scionracing.com/
Nos Energy: http://www.drinknos.com/
Formula Drift: http://www.formulad.com/
AE Performance: http://www.aeperformance.com/
Greddy: http://www.greddy.com/
Dayuum: http://www.dayuum.com/
742 Marketing: www.facebook.com/#!/742marketing

Scion iQ "Go" Presented by Scion @ K1 Speed

Hey everyone.  Sorry we haven't logged into the blog in awhile, but things have been really busy with everything in life.  Our photographer Leo has been pretty busy as well launching his photography buisness, but now we got time to get back into the swing of things. 

On March 17, we were invited along with other Scion folks for "Go".  This event was a promotion event held by Scion to promote the new Scion iQ.  The setting for the ride and drive experience was being held at K1 Speed in Irvine, CA.  K1 Speed is also known as a go cart facility.  So we were already wondering, how the hell is this going to happen.  So I told Leo, LET'S DO THIS! 

The morning of the event, rain was already in the forecast.  It sure did rain.  We saw at least 7 accidents on the way to K1.  That didn't stop us and our friends from making it.  We soon arrived at K1 right when the event started.  As soon as we rolled up, there was already a small group ready for the ride and drive.  Right in the front, Scion had a fully equipped 5 Axis iQ.  This thing was badass!

Covered under the rain of course is the new Scion everyone is waiting for, the FRS:

That right there we was already all about the event and we haven't even got inside yet.  We soon entered K1 and said hello to our good friend Jackie Ling of Urban Racer.  As soon as we finished registering, we went straight to what we wanted to expierience.  The go cart ride and drive.  We had to wait in a bit of a line because everyone wanted to see this go down too.

As mentioned before I said the ride and drive portion was on the go cart track right?  It sure was!  This iQ had more than enough room inside the track.  During our ride along, it was me, Leo, and his brother Geo.  First off, there was 4 of us including the driver.  The iQ was going 35 mph on the track.  I was screaming like a little girl.  The 2 laps he took us on was amazing and shook the driver's hand for not killing us! 

As soon as we were done with the ride along, we were told that the food had arrived and said that they are outside serving.  As the rain stopped for a brief momment we saw the famous Kogi truck.  One word best described it.  Yummy!

After killing the 3 tacos, we wanted to physically drive the Scion iQ.  Scion had set up a small track directly in front of K1.  We waited for a very brief momment to get our hands on 1 of 2 iQ's on the lot.

As short as the track was, it was a lot of fun to drive.  Never got it going going, but got the whole idea of what the car can do.  It was so much fun, a few of us rode it a few more times.  The iQ overall is a great car and worth checking out at your nearest Toyota/Scion dealership and judge it for yourself.  I will say this: its not like a Smartcar for all those wondering.  This car feels more stable, feels like a Corolla or small sedan, and of course Toyota.  Nuff said. 

Leo and I would like to thank Scion and Urban Racer for the invitation to K1.  It was a fun experience and glad the event went well regardless of rain.  For those that didn't make this event, you missed out.  For more information regarding the Scion iQ or Scion FRS, please view http://www.scion.com/

We have a lot of reviews already in the works, so stay tuned!

http://www.scion.com/
Add Scion to your Facebook for latest news/events: http://www.facebook.com/#!/SoCalScion
http://www.urbanracer.com/
http://kogibbq.com/


Written by: Kirby Quinto
Photos by: Leo Bor (WLB Photography)

Formula Drift Finals Review

Written by: Wilson L Bor
Photos by: Wilson L Bor


Formula Drift 2011 Finals took place at Toyota Speedway in Irwindale, CA. I had the chance to cover this event. All I got to say is, as my first experience to attend and cover this event I had a lot of fun. Being that it was Formula D’s last event of the season I was lucky to go to it.  I’m not going to sit here and bore you with all this gibberish and blah blah so I will get to the photos and try my best to explain to you a little about the photo and my day. HERE WE GO!

Here we have the early birds because right in the early morning these enthusiasts were already lined up and ready for the show at the SLAMMED SOCIETY show that also took place that day. The crowd was fairly large for being that early too.  A sign of how big this event was going to be.

Slammed Honda Accord lookin fresh. This makes me want to get the one my friends is selling. 

                          A slammed BMW, might hear me use the word “SLAMMED” a lot, hints the name of the show.

                                                      Another angle shot of the cars lined up to enter the event area.

                                            Meanwhile, as we waited in the beating sun, this guy had the right idea.

                                                                 Check out this  2^nd gen Scion xB looking fresh.

            There were quite a few Mazda Miata’s representing that day.  This red one caught my eye.  Simple and clean.

                                  Another Miata but just a little more wild. They say WHITE IS RIGHT, you be the judge.

                                         I liked the interior of this Miata's just clean. Can you guess what he uses to shift?

                                                                                     Talk about camber….  Wow!

                                                       Here’s another red Miata from a lower angel. Looks clean.

                                                              Toyota Supra owner giving his ride a little more color.

                                           This sweet ride was just standing a lot, well for me. Just low low low low..

                                                           First Drift car spotted going to the track for a practice run.

                                                                     SCION EVOLUTION representing their team.

                              A BMW standing out with its bright yellow paint job. You can’t miss him in the road or space.

                                 Here is the NOS team that attended the event gorgeous girls always makes the day better.

Here’s some shots of them making silly poses for the guys behind the cameras.  Still hot!

                                                                      2 models from Falken Tires..(also gorgeous)

                                                     I’m not sure what kind of car this was, but man it was slammed.

                                                                                 Another camber shot for ya.

                                                             Showing off their new wheel line-up for 2012 i believe

 Ok here are some drift shots. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get media passes so I did my best to get good shots with what I had from where I was.

 After having some fun shooting some cars and drifting, I decided to take a break and head back to the show.  I snapped a few more shots of the show.

    More shots of the NOS models and a few others.  Also got the HANKOOK TIRES models, and other random models that were there.

                                                                             I just loved this car.  Can you tell?

                                                                              A drift car going through the crowd.

 At the end of the day, I can honestly say I was beat!  This event was at capacity from what I overheard and was a huge success stated by others after the event.  Thank you Scion VIP for fun filled day.   Providing King Taco and goodie bags for all the Scion VIP guests.  

If you ever have the time to attend a Formula Drift event, I can assure you that you will have a great time.  You will see a lot of amazing cars, beautiful models, giveaways, and some bad ass drifting.  Until next time.  I’M OUT!!!!

Photos by: Wilson L Bor

Links

www.formuladrift.com

www.scion.com

www.scionvip.com