Video of the Week 74: Behind the Smoke Ep 2: Dai Yoshihara Formula D 2011:Flying Drift Car

R.A.D. Experience Interview: Tanner Foust

R.A.D. Experience interviews 1st place 2011 GRC rd2 Seattle AWD winner, Tanner Foust.

R.A.D. Experience Interview: Michael Jemberg

R.A.D. Experience interviews 2nd place 2011 GRC rd2 Seattle AWD winner, Michael Jemberg.

R.A.D. Experience Interview: Andreas Eriksson

R.A.D. Experience interviews 3rd place 2011 GRC rd2 Seattle AWD winner, Andreas Eriksson.

Global Rally Cross Championship rd2 Seattle

Here is our raw coverage of GRC rd 2 in Seattle. The trip was unplanned, the weather has been gloomy and chilly but the rally cross action is definitely a RAD Experience!!!

Video of the Week 73: Size Matters!!!

Here it is, the promotional video of the 12-time Pike's Peak Champion Mike Ryan where Ryan, Richard and Joshua of RAD Experience were part of it!

Size Matters!



So what do you think? That's definitely a RAD Experience!!!

XDC LA rd 1 Part 2 of 2

So, here is the continuation! Ending XDC LA rd 1 Part 1 with the Top 16 drivers, we start with the Top 16 tandem!

Love tap between Chelsea DeNofa and  Robert Turnbow.

Unfortunately for Robert Turnbow, he encountered some mechanical issues that 

ended his day early. 

Nate Hamilton and Cyrus Martinez (W).

Battle of the FC's! George Marstanovic (W) and Daniel Kuo.

Kelvin Arreola scraping the wall!

Kelvin Arreola and Odi Backhis (W). 

Dave Briggs (W) and Jeff Abbott. 

Here are the top 8 drivers.

Forrest Wang scraping the wall!

Chelsea DeNofa (W) and Forrest Wang showing off some good tandem runs. Both drivers gave  gangster angles and getting close to the wall that lead to several One-More-Times (OMTs). 

Cyrus Martinez and George Marstanovic (W). 

Will Parsons and Odi Backhis (W).

Here is another pair of drivers that showed great tandem runs that lead to OMT. 

Joshua Steele (W) and Dave Briggs.

Getting intense with the top 4 drifters!!!

George Marstanovic's time to scrape the wall!

George Marstanovic and Chelsea DeNofa (W).

Odi Backhis (W) won after Joshua Steele's S chasis' engine caught on fire. 

So the final round is between Odi Backhis and Chelsea DeNofa...

At the end, Chelsea's gangster lines and consistency paid off.

At the podium, spectators are waiting for the award ceremony.

4th place - Joshua Steele

3rd place - George Marstanovic

2nd place - Odi Backhis

2011 XDC rd1 Champion - Chelsea DeNofa 

Congratulations to all the Rd 1 winners!!!

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XDC LA rd 1 Part 1 of 2

Finally, I finished processing the images from XDC Rd1 in LA. I know, I know, it took me a while... it's been a busy week! Here you go...

I went out to Irwindale with my brother Ryan and Joshua. We got there early enough to avoid the long line.

Going around the pit area, I saw some sick rides and most of the drivers are ready for the qualifying but we saw Jeff Abbott still trying to fix his power steering issue.

Here are the qualifying runs.

Will Parsons and Joshua Steele

George Marstanovic

Carlos Cano

Cyrus Martinez

Forrest Wang

Chelsea DeNofa giving consistent gangster lines right from the qualifyings.

Dave Briggs

Here is Chris Forsberg's Infiniti M45 giving ride alongs with some of the spectators.

While waiting for the announcement of the top 16.

And here are the drivers that made top 16.

Benjamin Kunk (AZ)

Jeff Abbott (CA)

Joshua Steele (HI)

Daniel Kuo (CA)

Forrest Wang (HI)

Odi Backhis (CA)

Mike Skudlarek (MI)

Jeff Jones (CA)

Nate Hamilton (TX)

Will Parson (OK)

Cyrus Martinez (CA)

George Marstanovic (AZ)

Kelvin Arreola (CA)

Dave Briggs (CA)

Chelsea DeNofa (TX)

Robert Turnbow (TX)

End of part 1 of 2. Part 2 will show the tandem drift between the top 16 drivers to be posted tomorrow morning. So stay tuned! It is past midnight, goodnight everyone!

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