It’s been quite a busy month around here with the Drift Posse team, and in all the excitement I had begun to let things hang a little here, although I’m actually sort of proud of myself for keeping things as up to date as I have! As I look now, it’s only been a couple of weeks or so since my last update, so I suppose I’m not doing too bad.

Before I go any further, I think I should bring to your attention my most recent Drift Posse video:

This video covers the Drift Mania Canadian Championships Round 4 at Montmagny, Quebec; and what a round it was!! Tensions were pretty high in the Drift Posse camp for this round as just a week before at XDC New Jersey, Pat Cyr’s car had chewed up a diff. With a replacement diff on order from California and just a week until DMCC, Pat had no choice but to dig into the big old box of Corolla parts for his old welded stock differential, and that was mounted into the car. Needless to say, with a much weaker differential everybody was pretty nervous about when/if this diff would give out.

Brad Carlton’s weekend came with its own set of problems, as his car was suffering a mysterious lack of power issue that remained unsolved throughout the entire weekend.

With all of this in the backs of the minds of the Drift Posse drivers, they were still able to make a good account of themselves. Brad was able to qualify to make it into the Top 16 battle against Kevin Grenier. Grenier, who seems to always have an edge at this track was definitely on fire against Brad, and was able to close the deal against the severely underpowered 240SX, but Brad’s ruthless style was still evident throughout the battle!

Though Brad had put up a valiant fight, it was now up to Pat to hold things down for the Drift Posse team! Pat’s first battle was against Grenier’s teammate in Dominic Desrosiers with his V8 powered R33 Skyline. Pat was able to put Desrosiers down without much trouble, but he didn’t go down without putting on a good show for the crowd, warming them up for the intense battles that were to unfold!

The next driver in Pat’s sights was none other than Kevin Grenier himself! Having been stacked into the same side of the ladder, Pat was now in a position to take immediate revenge on Grenier for taking out fellow Drift Posse driver Brad Carlton. Grenier wouldn’t go down without a fight however, taking Pat to a One More Time battle before losing the closely fought tandem battle.

With the trusty little hachiroku still moving right along, Pat had none other than 2009 Series Champ Matt Waldin to go against. Unfortunately Pat would have to take the loss on this one, with an error in strategy causing him to drop behind Waldin in his following tandem lap.

This did however still leave Pat in contention for the 3rd place spot on the podium, and the man standing between him and his goal was David Briggs, fellow Ontario drifter. After a tight battle, Pat was declared the winner and earned his spot onto the podium once again, albeit in the 3rd place spot!

On top of this event we’ve also been keeping pretty busy locally, with having done a demo gig just before DMCC at Delaware Speedway, and then judging CSCS just afterwards (which reminds me, big props to Drift Posse pro-am driver Francisco Becerra for making it to the top 8 at CSCS)! Another week later and we were invited to attend the Mosport Grand Prix by Sasha Anis from SG Motorsports, who is driving in the Castrol Touring Car Series in the Castrol Hyundai Genesis. This event was epic in and of itself, with filming being a pretty stressful experience when you’ve got 4 kms of track to cover, and only 30 minutes to do it. I think I got some neat footage though, so be sure to look out for that video in the near future!

I digress, we’re now in preperations for what will likely be the most exciting event of the DMCC season, Round 5 at St. Eustache. The Drift Posse boys are pumped and ready to put on one hell of a show for all the Montreal fans!

::Dan

Tags: brad carlton, DMCC, Drift Posse, Montmagny, Pat Cyr, round 4