Dubai Drift Challenge 2007

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Post by commando » 14 Jan 2007, 12:18 am

it was AWESOME, i was there yesterday and today the drift was awesome and the 24 hour race is also great.. (Y) (Y)

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Post by wek-236 » 14 Jan 2007, 2:37 am

kingkenny wrote:
WTF wrote:The Mirage Mivec's was running strong last night and manage to finished the 24H race without any major problems with the engines ... after the race they proclaimed winner of the A1 class ...

A1 Category

1st - Mirage Mivec
2nd - Ford Puma RS
3rd - Mirage Mivec
4th - Mirage Mivec
great !! power of the "M" , hahaha !!

Your Lucky that there is no "H" badges running and no "V" (vtec) power hehehe , right accord? :wink:

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Post by Accord98 » 14 Jan 2007, 10:59 am

Right on ! (Y)

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Post by WTF » 14 Jan 2007, 11:57 am

there's an "H" running on track ... S2000 .. but i think its on another category ... wonder why there's no 1.6 "H" running .. they can always put an EK with a B16 engine ... u think it can handle 24H race without any major issues ?

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Post by kingkenny » 14 Jan 2007, 4:57 pm

WTF wrote:there's an "H" running on track ... S2000 .. but i think its on another category ... wonder why there's no 1.6 "H" running .. they can always put an EK with a B16 engine ... u think it can handle 24H race without any major issues ?
good to know the mivec is pretty strong , i was thinking there must be a reason why the mivec are not famous like vetc , vvt !! i afriad the engine has a major problem , but without problem at the 24h , i believe it is good engine !!

check the history of the mivec , you will find out mitsubish are the frist company design the mivec engine before honda vtec and toyota vvt !! but now people know vtec , vvt and what is mivec , most of them they don't know , i was one of them too !!

actually i would love to see 1.6L vtec at the 24h , should be fun !! i wonder why no one bring a ek9 for 24h !!

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Post by MJ » 15 Jan 2007, 3:22 pm

I and couple of my friends were also at Autodrome to see DDC. We were suprised that there was only those European cars running. What happened to those guys who we saw drifting last year in U.A.Q.? What about rumour that D1 is coming to Dubai on March? We just happened to hear that at the pit.

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Post by Alpha » 15 Jan 2007, 5:54 pm

MJ wrote:I and couple of my friends were also at Autodrome to see DDC. We were suprised that there was only those European cars running. What happened to those guys who we saw drifting last year in U.A.Q.?
It was a shame not even one driver from anywhere in the Middle East participated in the event. I doubt that could be due to bad advertising. Guess my arabic lessons theory proved right to some extent after all. Did we have any Arabic versions of the flyer? :happy:
What about rumour that D1 is coming to Dubai on March? We just happened to hear that at the pit.
I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. The Americans didn't stand upto the Japanese very well. The Arabians still have a long way to go.

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Post by mikeh » 15 Jan 2007, 6:44 pm

Sam wrote:The Arabians still have a long way to go.
Yeah, to autodrome.. like showing up :D

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Post by Arnie » 18 Jan 2007, 2:01 pm

Damn....couldnt make it to the Drift show....had lotta projects to work on...

I couldnt believe there wasnt a single guy who participated from the drift challenge....

what bout the warqa guys...

nways....next time...we should seriously plan somthing out...

any news bout the drift school?!...it was supposed to have been unveiled last Nov...

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Post by Accord98 » 22 Jan 2007, 9:32 am

Dragonnoir thank you for the update. i was there and u guys rocked!
Must say that the track wasnt the best but you guys showed skill anyways! Look forward to seeing you next year where hopefully we will have some UAE contestants (Y)


To the Rest of UB - finally got around to uploading some videos i had of the drifting.... They are short and bad quality cause they were taken with my cell phone.... but atleast u can see what real drifting is ... 8)

http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c2/na ... 007005.flv

http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c2/na ... 007006.flv

http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c2/na ... 007007.flv

enjoy (Y)

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Post by Alpha » 30 Jan 2007, 2:16 pm

UPDATE: Photo gallery added. View full gallery here.

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Post by t-dogg » 30 Jan 2007, 3:12 pm

3 Cars? Where is the smokeee? Where are the skylines? the silvias? cefiros? laurels? the nissanssss? WHERE IS TEH SMOKE?

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Post by Alpha » 30 Jan 2007, 4:13 pm

t-dogg wrote:3 Cars? Where is the smokeee? Where are the skylines? the silvias? cefiros? laurels? the nissanssss? WHERE IS TEH SMOKE?
viewtopic.php?p=41086#41086

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Post by mikeh » 30 Jan 2007, 7:58 pm

t-dogg wrote:3 Cars? Where is the smokeee? Where are the skylines? the silvias? cefiros? laurels? the nissanssss? WHERE IS TEH SMOKE?
There was a skyline with "Dubai Drift" stickers on the side.

That's how close dubai will get to drifting.



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