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Formula Drift Final Fight Irwindale 2015 | Coverage

About a week ago on October 11, 2015, the last Formula Drift of the year took place – the Final Fight in Irwindale. First off, it was probably one of the hottest events I’ve ever attended besides ones in Las Vegas. Ironically, it was about ten to fifteen degrees cooler that day in Las Vegas than Southern California, but despite the scorching temperatures, Formula Drift never failed to be an epic event – even the drivers were not phased with the two hundred-degree temperatures in their drift machines suited up – shit’s pretty fuckin’ gangster.

Fredric Aasbo always killing’ it!

Ma boy, Justin Pawlak!

Zayuumn, Ken! Gotteeeem!

I’ve always loved Wang’s ride doe! Shit’s flames!

Mad Mike’s MX-5 is straight-up FIRE!

Vaughn Gittin Jr. was performing some dope stunts in between eliminations in his Ecoboost F-150 with underglow and spark effects.

Top 16 got everyone screaming on their toes. Shit was gnarly, especially with the freshly altered course – there were a lot of accidents at the entry to the second bank. Ken Gushi went through some rough patches with a couple of engines, but still managed to “fuck shit up” – in a good way. As the night narrowed down during the top 16, everyone was hella stoked to see Aasbo, Gushi, and Wang place podium – congrats fellas!

Top 3 Standings:

Fredric Aasbo #151
Kenshiro Gushi #21
Forrest Wang #808

Aside from the main event, there was another life behind the k-rails and the grand stands. Hundreds of fans and enthusiasts roamed the vendor and show venue, making it almost easy to beat the heat! Let’s check out all the fuss at the Offset Kings venue.

Mizzark’s E60 M5 bebeh!

Hi Mizzark!

Edgar’s Z32

Yogi’s GS430

Oh hai there Yogi!

Mikey’s Porsche with the ass shot!

Mikey on that hotline bling with Noel.

Noel on that hotline bling with Mikey. Lol.

Arm’s IS300 with his fresh Elixir front bumper. It’s a dream come true!

It was fun shooting on the track with Paulo. This foo comes out from Las Vegas every time to shoot for SouthrnFresh. You’s a trooper ma boy!

I can never get over this Tailored FD. This car actually won Offset Kings a couple years back at Formula Drift Irwindale, and it just never gets old.

Hi Courtney “WING”field!

Dat Aimgain front end on the FR-S doe!

S14 Kouki with the Vertex Lang!

What do you feel about this Rocket Bunny flared RSX? Pretty insane in the membrane.

After shooting around the the car show, we headed back to home base at the Royal Origin booth to see how the crew is doing.

My zaughters Hayle and Vickie holdin’ it down at the booth.

They wanted Zaddy to be in the photo, so here I am!

Dem Derry Dexx holdin’ down the fort while Aye Ron’s trying to snapchat the one that got away.

Aww Jeff always sells them with his smile. Swapang talaga!

Got to meet this fine gal next door to us at the Chibi Cars booth. She’s the one behind all the cool artwork they had on display! She’s very talented and very bae. Nice meeting you, Stephanie.

Bruno Mars be like, selfie!

Bruno’s “Aww shit I got got” pose. Lol.

Damn it, Vinh, you’re a little too tall, squat down a little for the picture please?

Much better!

Looks like the booth was doing good and didn’t catch fire from all the heat that we dropped. So let’s take the crew over back to the Offset Kings venue to take a last look at my favorite part of the show, the Serial Nine guys from Canada.

This “Seams” about right, YAHNAHMSAYIN?!

It was LIT, fam!

Formula Drift Final Fight Irwindale 2015 was a jam-packed event just like every other FD there is. This Final Fight was one we will never forget. We also thank everyone that came by and showed us support. Even though this is our first event not showcasing any of our cars, it was still pretty LIT with all the homies. Just stay tuned to some of our builds during the next seasons – big thangs are going to be popping! ‘Til next time, folks!

-Celso Nimo

October 20, 2015

Formula Drift 2013 | Irwindale

I hope you enjoyed our last post which was mostly focused on the Slammed Society showcase. I love talking about myself so I’ll be showing you Irwindale through my eyes and what I experienced. The morning of the show was pretty hectic, we had to get enough food for the whole day, drinks, pack up a canopy and a hundred folding chairs into my car. Somehow we were able to fit most of it in my compact IS250. We were suppose to leave Stanton at 9:30 AM, but shit out of luck we ended up leaving at 10:14 AM. I had planned for Heather to drive my car while I did some rolling shots, but she ate a bunch of frosted flakes that morning and couldn’t make it. Somehow I ended up with Thao in my car, but she’s been riding dirty without a licenses for a while so she had to be the photographer. I just set the settings for her and let her fire away.

Big Vinh aka Wonderful Vinh aka I have LSD and a turboed KA now barely got his car finished for the show.

John’s DC2 looking fast as fuck with all that aero.

Casey’s sick Cressida.

Max Up Style yo.

The motherfucking dentist checking if yo grille be clean.

Neel in his newly acquired LS400.

AW FILMS.

This year was a bit more of a hassle as mention in the previous post. Irwindale security was really on our asses about not being able to take passengers even if they had a ticket. People were yelling left and right, tensions were high and all because they didn’t want to let loved ones through the gate even if they paid for a ticket already.

After all the commotion settled down, we got the cars set up and the fun began.

Avant Garde hired a really cute Japanese model. Meet Yuya Sano.

A big crowd for the cheap seats.

Even girls enjoying some drifting or just talking about how cool their nails look in the sun.

Spotted Matt’s other race car. I wonder if he’ll let me drive this one too.

Matt Field’s S14 on some Rotiform TMB’s.

The coolest car in Formula D! Robbie Nishida’s SC300. I hope he brings it back next year.

The ninja Saito, sad to see he didn’t do as well as last year.

Ken Gushi’s FRS with a sick livery by Jon Sibal.

This chaser is so bad ass!! We need more imported Japanese goodness in Formula D.

Can’t get enough of this! Wish it had the rear bumper on but this car is all about functionality.

Straight into the drifting action! Matt Field leaving a bunch of smoke for his opponent.

Matt Powers putting in work and not on middled aged Asian women this time.

Taka Aono’s AE86 was killing it that day!

Competing against big sponsored cars and winning!

Getting real close.

The next couple of photos will be all just tandem shots. Don’t want to be repetitive with what I say, so I’ll just let you guys enjoy the photos.

Jhonnattan Castro crashing hard into the wall.

Luckily, his car didn’t flip like the cars from Friday’s session. He walked off with no visible injuries.

Did a creeper shot of this Falken umbrella girl. Pretty sure she knew I was taking this photo.

Another model spotting..

Started to get use to doing panning shots and got some pretty cool photos.

Break time until top 16.

Felt the need to get this shot of Ken Gushi’s car.

Made our way back to Young’s car for some refreshments. He had mangos and juices all ready for us.

Thao being our little hostess. A girl with many talents : photographer, hostess and water cooler model.

Lolwut.

Spotted this guy doing something behind Jay’s Miata..

He was just a big roadster fan and wanted a photo with Jay’s Miata.

The showcase was jammed pack. What I love about the Slammed Society show it is always full of enthusiasts instead of thirsty ass motherfuckers that are at car shows just for models.

Fatlace getting the awards and prizes ready.

Max looking pretty.

I’ll take everything.

I was making my way to my car to switch lens and caught this guy talking trash about my exhaust. HAHA.

I honestly don’t give a fuck about what people say about my car. I do what I want and having a Junction Produce exhaust is what I am most proud of. To prove the authenticity I use the extension that the exhaust comes with at shows.

Haters gonna hate, lovers gonna love but I don’t want none of the above. I just want to piss on you.

Royal Origin x Unlimited Auto Craft.

Crazy S13 rocking Brandon’s wide ass TMB’s.

Dat really excited for some reason.

The Honda game was on point at this show. Really loved the CRX’s that showed this year.

Mr. Yogi Bear’s GS.

Caught this guy sleeping during the awards announcement.

We started to fuck around..

and then this happened…

Well that escalated quickly..

Congrats to the home boy Marq for winning first place VIP!

Cool Subie from Tailored. In the market for one right now, hopefully I’ll find something..

This RX-7 tho. It’s the same one from last year who won Best Slammed. Nice new changes.

This s14 was pretty sick too and low as hell.

Phat getting that booth space.

Wanted a photo of Noel’s FRS, but every time I stopped by to attempt a shot, a fucking fanboy would be gawking at it for hours.

Had to aim my camera at something else while I was waiting..

Kyle’s crazy S13 with hotrod influence. A definite hate it or love it kind of thing. There are some parts that I don’t agree with on this car, but I can respect the time and effort it took for everything done on this car. At the end of the day it’s not my car, so why do I give a fuck? Do what you want and fuck everyone else.

If you showed me this photo of Big Vinh’s S13 a year ago and told me it would look like this. I would not believe you and tell you that whatever drugs you’re on I want double of it.

So crazy..

Matt Field cruising to top 16.

Formula Drift had a cool fireworks show before top 16.

Phat reparked with us and it was perfect timing.

Jay, Keith and Big Vinh went to go get some night shots for us.

Jay was more interested in getting photos of Vinh.

Drivers introduction.

Vinh and Jay have a thing going on or something.

The one good shot… Well that’s it for Irwindale! Hope you enjoyed the post and like always more photos in the gallery.

Instagram – @NGUASS

Words by Minh

Photos by Angelo and Minh

October 19, 2013

Slammed Society Irwindale

So this past weekend Royal Origin decided to come out in full force for the Slammed Society Irwindale show. We rolled up 20 plus cars deep and like usual we all got there kind of late, but everything ended up working out perfectly because Fatlace gave us a little corner on the drag strip to set up all our cars. The only problem I had with roll in was that no one told us we weren’t allowed to have a passenger roll in with us. So all the passengers (girlfriends) were told to wait outside of the gates until 2 P.M. when the gates would open to the public. Luckily Bonnie, Regina, and Carol dressed up like import models that day and we were able to sneak them in through Dsport as import models and Ryo from Lowballers Japan as their photographer! Besides that little problem, SS Irwindale would have to be one of the funnest shows I’ve been to in a while. Vinh, Minh, and I were able to go down to the pits and get right up close and personal with the drift cars, and thanks to Young everyone was turned up to the fullest that day. I can’t wait for Formula D to start next year I’m definitely getting a media pass for every show!

Enough of me talking and onto the cars. This past show brought out the best of the best fitment, from meaty fitment all the way down to stretch tire fitment. It also brought out different build styles from full blown track cars to cars that are literally millimeters off the ground. I wasn’t able to take many pictures of the cars because coincidentally the perfect time to take pictures was also the perfect time for the public to check out the showcase.

Mark’s crazy fitted 350z from LowNslow Crew with those beautiful SSR MS1’s

The bartender of the show, Young Choi rockin that 326 bull dog front camber

Johnny from royalflush, with that bright as a diamond paint job!

Have you ever seen the lowest RX8 in the world? Well now you have!

Royal Flush.

Minh with his newly finished Junction Produce Scaras, pictures do not do this wheel justice!

Ryan came all the way out from Santa Barbara, wearing some volk re30’s on his newly acquired evo.

Jason’s fitment on his IS300 is jaw dropping and boner popping!

The king of cracking oil pans, Jimmy muthafuckin Lieu, He has cracked 6 oil pans with in the span of 6 months. He decided to go full retard for the show and tuck rim all the way around. Sadly he cracked his pan for the 7th time on the way home from the show, but everything worked out okay, he got a tow from our good friend Kevin and slapped on his new pan the following day.

Kevin’s S2000, it was late in the day and there wasn’t enough light to catch his wheels. Sorry Kevin

I believe I’ve seen this civic around citrus college. I love the white on black theme you have going on.

This EG hatch was insane. One of a kind rebarrled regamasters and it was converted to right hand drive!

This Acura CL reminded me of my friend Michael Johnson’s Acura TL, none the less, it was a beautiful piece of machinery.

This accord was on the ground! Kudo’s to you if you are static!!

John Tran’s Integra sitting beautifully on CCW’s Unfortunately the following morning, the car was stolen from Orange Coast College. Can everyone please keep an eye out for this car, it was last seen in Riverside.

Sean’s G35 had people scratching there head’s and wondering how he drives this thing. The fitment on this car is ridiculously insane!

Nick and Neel came out to party that day too!

AWWWWWWFILMS brought out his spec B legacy. Love his white on white combo, keep an eye out for his car when he rocks the rotiform wrw’s.

Vinh aka “big vinh” was afraid he wasn’t going to be able to show because he didn’t have enough time to finish his turbo setup. Luckily with the help of friends he was able to get it running properly the night before.

Kyle brought out his newly finished BN sport S13. It was so hard for me to snap a picture of this car due to people swarming around it! Congratulations on winning the speedhunter award and I can’t wait for the feature to drop.

“JPN SPEC” was what the license plate said on this car. Without a doubt this car definitely fits in with that category. Right hand drive converted with the multicolor race scheme straight out of Japan.

Simple and clean EF civic, just the way I like it!

My good friend JC, your car is looking boss bro! Especially with the finish of your new wheels! Thank you again for letting me buy your front lip at 3 AM in the morning!

Ashton the king of perverts, be ready to take it in the butt when you see this guy! His car sits beautifully on Work Cr Kai ultimate’s

The Yakuza himself, Mark won best VIP that day!

Keychain, with his simple and beautiful IS300.

Jon Tran reppin LowNslow, believe it or not the face’s of his wheels are vinyl wrapped, never in my life have I heard that done before!

Vinh didn’t finish Ariana(The Sti) in time so he used Brandon’s EVO to show.

Super sick TL wagon on Weds Vishnus.

Sick cars as always at the Hoonigan area.

No stranger to us is Ribler’s Audi Avant on Rotiform IND.

A more sportier version of the GS rocking some TE-37 SL.

Sick Camry on my all time favorite wheels! Work Equips.

BooshmaV3 looking good with the new exhaust.

M.I.A. Dailow.

Probably the most wildest GS I have ever laid my eyes on in the U.S. and it drifts!

More photos in the gallery!

Words by Angelo.

Photos by Angelo and Minh

Instagram – @angelooo_calderon

@nguass

October 18, 2013

2012 Forumla Drift/Slammed Society: Irwindale

On Saturday, October 13th, a majority of the Royal Origin guys including myself attended the 2012 Formula Drift: Title Fight event at the Irwindale Speedway. This was the last FormulaD event of the year and a Formula Drift Champion would be crowned by the end of the day. Along with the main drifting event, Fatlace hosted the Slammed Society Showcase.

The Irwindale Speedway.

First time in a while that we rolled deep to a show.

The Royal Origin window cleaner position has finally been filled. Good work Bonnie!

BMW M5 on Leon Hardiritt Orden’s. Owned by Mark of Phase2.

I’m in love…

Kirk’s STi from RoyalFlush.

Nimo rockin’ some Work VS-KF’s and his newly painted matched flares.

Allen of Low n Slow.

…More like low and fast.

Sup girl, heard you like big tips.

Angelo displaying his new wheels at the showcase.

Beautifully slammed Accord.

Ken Block.

What’s a car show without models?

FormulaD media meeting.

It was pretty damn hot out there on the track. Luckily, they gave us free water to stay hydrated.

First time shooting on the track; it was an awesome experience.

The Champ, Daigo Saito.

Alex keeping me company at the track.

Awfilms working hard or hardly working? Hmmm.

Got some behind-the-scene coverage.

Badass little Z4.

Greddy FR-S.

The awards.

Time for some crew love.

Nimo’s IS300 scraping everywhere.

Alex’s E36.

Vu’s Miata on his new Work Meister CR01.

Keychain looking sexy with his VS-KF’s.

Angelo debuting his Volk.

Ryan’s GTI.

Minh’s revitalized IS250. Came out looking hard.

Gerald aka Rootbeer from Vegas.

Jimmy’s civic on brand new Rotiform TMB’s. Ballin’… Be sure to check out the rest of the photos in the gallery!

-VINH

November 11, 2012

Formula D Round 7 – Title Fight

Hi everyone! My name is Jay and I’ll be also posting coverage and articles on this website. An introduction will come later, but for now, here’s my coverage of this past weekend’s Formula D Round 7 at Irwindale Speedway – “The Title Fight”.

For some of us, the day started relatively early. Tim came to my house in Irvine from a 5:00am shift at work, the Yoshi’s brothers were up early to wipe down Alex Yoshi’s car, and I…. well I didn’t sleep at all. I was to enter Minh’s IS250 for him because he was busy with work and Alex was going to enter his e36 in the Fatlace Slammed Society Showcase.

Two freeways and one gas station later, we arrived at the speedway at 10:30am and were welcomed by a cluster of showcase entrants lined up front – awaiting their parking spots for the showcase.

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October 13, 2011

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