Who the hell told you that an oversized hat with a flat bill looks good?
We all know you’re the rebellious one, and I respect that, but honestly dude.. Don’t dirty the Ferrari image by wearing your hat that way. You DON’T want to start resembling shit like this:
E-mail
From: Fellow Industry Colleague
To: Me
Subject: Fw: Product Info
Hey Dom,
Does this sound like one of your customers?
I saw your ad in ____ magazine but on your website I only found setups for ricers. Do you make clutches for real cars? I have a ‘07 Z06 which produces 657 hp at the wheels. Do you have anything for this app?
E-Mail
From: Me
To: Fellow Industry Colleague
Subject: Re: Product Info
Sounds like me after a drink or two.
Risi Competizione embodies everything that I love about cars and true motorsports. Working on their car and with their team is pure bliss for me.
Thursday Practice:
Fastest in session 1.
Fastest in session 2.
Friday Qualifying:
Pole position.
First things first, I DON’T look at SpeedCunters. That would be a waste of time. Why? Because it’s owned by an entity which hopes to “increase its legitimacy” by paying people to blog/take pictures for them. They say it’s for the love of motorsports and all-things-cars when really it’s about ultimately increasing the money in their pockets.
But in any case, the picture above was first shown to me by Kent, and then by BH, and then by a whole list of other people. It’s a picture of the Endless Super Taikyu EVO and yes, that is a ginormous SEIBON sticker on it.
Yes, the same SEIBON that’s based out of Walnut, California.
Yes, the very same SEIBON that is incapable of producing anything original or of quality.
But I had no explanation for the presence of the sticker and, like you, I was upset. Luckily, someone from Endless Japan literally just got into town for this weekends ALMS race and I took the opportunity to ask him about it. So, if you’ll be so kind, I shall explain…
In Super Taikyu (the Japanese endurance race series for the noobs out there), the CT9A is still outperforming the CZ4A. This is, of course, not good for Mitsubishi nor Endless Japan since they campaign the CZ4A. One demerit to the CZ4A is that it weighs about 100kilos more than the CT9A. So when Rays, who is selling Seibon to the Japanese market, offered carbon doors to E. Japan for a stuuuuuuuuuuuuupid cheap price (hence the stupid huge sticker), E. Japan took it. Without so much as a peep from me, our guy from E. Japan then said the doors are poor quality and that they’d rather have dry carbon ones, but they’re just doors and they really had no other makers to choose from. Those doors are the only thing SEIBON on the car. The rest of the aero that actually matters is Ings.
So, there you have it. Pressure from Mitsubishi to get the EVO 10 performance above that of the EVO 8/9 and a stupid crazy cheap deal.
In the end, I blame the whole thing on Rays because it’s their fault for doing the whole “SEIBON TE37″ collabo and selling SEIBON in Japan. Just kidding. Well, maybe not..
disclaimer: i <3 homos
If you ever wanted to see Piquet hugging another man while standing in a pool wearing a race suit…
[12:02] AutoProduceBossPhi: are you going out to the “drift race” this weekend?
[12:04] Endless Zeal US: oh its this weekend?
[12:04] Endless Zeal US: lol
[12:04] Endless Zeal US: im going NEXT weekend, when the real racing is
[12:06] Endless Zeal US: haha. are you going?
[12:25] AutoProduceBossPhi: yeah I am going to help out Eddie
[12:25] AutoProduceBossPhi: just as an advisor and back up mechanic
[12:25] Endless Zeal US: ah
[12:26] AutoProduceBossPhi: but since I had to suffer, I was trying to find comfort in that you would suffer with me
[12:26] Endless Zeal US: those days are over buddy
[12:26] Endless Zeal US: lol
[12:26] AutoProduceBossPhi: hahhaha
[12:26] AutoProduceBossPhi: I am jealous
[11:25] Endless Zeal US: omg! Formula D Long Beach Saturday Image-1614
[11:25] Endless Zeal US: what happened to your poor car?
[11:26] citytyrebrian: lol
[11:26] citytyrebrian: carl thought it’d be fun to go in too hot
[11:26] citytyrebrian: luckily, the tire barriers weren’t super harsh :-)
[11:27] citytyrebrian: mostly scratches on driver’s door and bumpers
[11:27] Endless Zeal US: i meant the kallusive *gag* graphics
[11:27] Endless Zeal US: lol
[11:27] citytyrebrian: oh, jerk :-P
[11:27] Endless Zeal US: LOL
[11:25] kentchen: terrible
[11:19] Endless Zeal US: i feel so sorry for this car after being beat to hell for years: Calvin Wan Slams Into Turn 10
[11:24] Garrett: lol
[11:24] Garrett: ouch
[11:24] Endless Zeal US: i fucking hate drifting
[11:24] Garrett: hahaha
[11:24] Endless Zeal US: such a waste of fucking time
[11:25] Garrett: drifting = waste of good cars
[11:25] Garrett: lol
[11:25] Endless Zeal US: its so sad
[11:26] Garrett: it is
[11:28] Garrett: drifting is only cool during rally races
[11:28] Garrett: lol
[11:29] Endless Zeal US: because then it’s called rallying, not drifting
[11:29] Endless Zeal US: hahaha
[11:29] Garrett: lmao
[11:29] Endless Zeal US: and the objective is to go fast, not “look cool”
[11:29] Garrett: hahaha
I was coerced into previewing the new Fast & Furious movie earlier tonight. I know, me of all people right? Let’s just say it was a mean trick played on me by a few “friends.” I sat there pretending to have a blast, screaming, hooting, hollering, every chance I got because if I was going to be subjected to it, I was going to be as obnoxious as I knew how.
But a funny thing happened…
15 minutes into it, after the first action sequence, I found myself actually not hating my very existence. Albeit embarrassed, I was (my god) enjoying the movie. The cars weren’t as corny as they have been in past movies, the acting wasn’t horrendous, and the technical content was pretty spot on in terms of accuracy. I was shocked, quite honestly, and I wouldn’t have mentioned any of this at all to anyone except that by the end of the movie, I felt as though it had impressed me enough to want to spread the message; the new Fast & Furious movie is actually decent. Dare I say, it’s actually GOOD.
Bottom line is.. F&F4? D.O.M. approved
