I covered Formula Drift Round 1 Streets of Long Beach over this past weekend on both Friday & Saturday and I snapped up over 16 gigs of images. I posted up about 200 of them on 3 different entries below and I posted a few of the highlights from each.

Friday Qualifying:

The Perfect Exposure: Formula Drift Round 1 Long Beach Coverage Part I of III Friday Qualifying

Saturday Main Event:

The Perfect Exposure: Formula Drift Round 1 Long Beach Coverage Part II of III Saturday Main Event

Pit Zone:

The Perfect Exposure: Formula Drift Round 1 Long Beach Coverage Part III of III The Pit Zone


Friday Qualifying:

















Saturday Main Event:

















Behind the Scenes: Pit Zone

 

Awesome pics!!!

I was there as well and took pics, none as good as any of yours.
I was in this building on the right watching it off my friends balcony lol.

 

Wheres Note's car? haha

 

nice pix man......

 

Sweet pics...Nice...

 

Love the Genesis coupe!

Nice pics. Toyota really should offer a rwd tC.

 

A+ pics!! thanks for sharing

 

i can't find the article right now, but i remember reading on jalopnik.com that "experts" are speculating that the next generation tC will be rwd and that it could possibly be the toyota/subaru joint coupe

if the "experts" are right, my "Fit is Go" will become "Fit Go Bye-Bye." lightweight coupe, RWD, 2.0L boxer engine, and around 16k.. that's a formula for success in my book

::EDIT::
this isn't the exact article i read but a quick google search spit this out
http://www.leftlanenews.com/toyotasu...-scion-tc.html

 

i really doubt its going to be under 16k... look at the cars in that price range... budget econo cars... if anything it'll be over 20k...

i mean look at the celica gt-s... the "affordable" toyota sports car of its time... started at 22k...

*edit* IF it were going to replace the current tc... 18k most likely

 

yeah, i think my pricing info may be garbled.. i wouldn't be surprised if i mixed that number up with another car i read about.

BUT if speculation becomes truth and the toyobaru coupe it is the 2nd gen tC, $16k shouldn't be too far off -- a current base tC starts at that price. also, what if the toyobaru coupe opens a new price bracket for an affordable RWD coupe? no competition = monopolized market.. meh, my mind is in the stars. that's what i'm hoping for but i won't hold my breath till it happens

 

well toyota needs to step it up and live up to a lot of what they say.. im still waiting on a new MR2... lol

well i mean.. the current tc is no where near a sports car... maybe a sporty subcompact... the si is more of what this new purposed car will be competing against... 2.0, 200 hp, LSD... i think its more of a sports car then the tc...

again the SI is about 22k...

maybe (when im ballin.. lol) i can take on a new project... MRk20fit? hahahah im guessing theres enough room to mount that baby longitudinal...

 

There's that crazy RWD midship Del Sol.

I want a Miata. Laugh all you want. I would rock the **** out of that.

 

laugh??? no way man... im the guy that owned the small 2 seater toyota...

miatas ftw...

my 2 (realistic) dream cars i'd say are the toyota spyder and mazdaspeed miata... both not the manliest cars.. lol

 

Wow awesome photos!