Last yearās āBeach Burnoutā hosted by theĀ Canadian Sport Compact SeriesĀ was my first voyage out to Grand Bend and I learned that the six hours (round trip) of driving required to make it all work in one day is less than enjoyable so thinking ahead we made a weekend of it this year.
On Saturday we drove up to Lyndseyās sisters in Exeter, went to Lucan for a tractor pull, and then woke up at a decent hour Sunday to make our way to the Grand Bend Motorplex.
Given that Sunday was incredibly hot Iām thankful we spent as little time in the 3 as possible because up until Monday Ā the air conditioning was still inoperable. With the weather being awesome and a beach just down the road the turnout looked to be about double it was last year which made everything busy.
The strip, the show and shine, Ā and the track where todayās coverage begins.
Drifting
The CSCS team has been making a number of revisions to the drifting portion of the event to make it much more enjoyable and competitive for everyone involved. The introduced new judges, a new announcers, and a more refined judging system.
All of this definitely helped because the finals were some of the most evenly matched tandems Iāve ever seen at a CSCS event.
Jover was out agaiin ripping his f20 ae86. Iāve yet to get a great shot of this car which is something I hope to do before the season is outThis was the first time I had seen the Automatrix (boosted?) Miata at a CSCS event, he didnāt make the finals but I did manage to get this nice shotOne of the new additions to CSCS drifting are defined clipping points. Here are two drivers getting as close as possibleDylan got his LS powered Nissa out for this roundā¦ canāt wait to see how it does once heās got it all dialed inFull out at full lockS14 on entry to the first cornerSame corner, similar car, different angleI should really know who this is by nowā¦Being so bright Bradās car is one of the easiest too shootā¦ā¦the same can be said for Anthonyās Centerline Motorsports carBoth ended up making it into the top 4A miss shift in his chase run meant Anthony had to go all out in his lead lap against Marin. In the end Marin came out on top and moved onThis put Brad and Anthony head to head for 3/4 with Brad taking the 3 spotAs expected Riley was out sending it in his KA Hardbody and made it to the final two tandemAfter a close battle Marin triumphed and took home the dayBrad Celebrating his third place finish
Time Attack
The time attack drivers once again proved to be some of the best in the region as records were broken once again around the Time Attack course. People were looping the tight technical Grand Bend course in well under a minute.
Donāt often get to see a Corvette out ripping in a field made up almost entirely of ImportsMy two favorite CSCS time attack cars during practiceThis s14 took home street RWD at Cayuga and was looking just as fast in Grand BendE46 M3 taking full advantage of those tiresThe Stage 4 Celica is another car I love to watch rip around the track, donāt see many of them and this one is quickI beleive this Type R was running in the Street FWD classJames Houghton was running in unlimed FWD and looking to best the record he set last year of 55.059In unlimited AWD Mike McGinnis sent his newly painted florescent green Subaru around the track in stellar timesReal pleasure to watch this car run
Look out for some show and shine and paddock coverage later this week!
The picture of the type R above my race car is my dad in my daily driver! š
Thatās so rad James!