FORZA 4....

  Hey guys, so with the Forza franchise well into its 4th edition since October 2011. I have had the immense pleasure playing with the new physics, game modes and action that is available.

  I am just 2 months in and ive already racked up some stats, such as:
I have entered 300+ races,
I have won 160 of them,
There are 86 cars in my garage, where a third of them are DRIFT cars,
My garage is worth over 37 million credits
I have driven for 24 hours so far,
I have driven over 1.5 thousand miles,
& i currently have 2 million credits in my bank.
  Now i understand these stats are nothing special and ive got loads of driving/drifting still do to but, i just thought i'd share my progression on the blog.

Ok so theres 2 MAIN points that i'd like to tell you guys about.
1) I am competing in a drift championship on Forza called, Forza British Drift Championship. Now i know the B.D.C. is a real life top level championship as i follow/attend as a tog to most of the events.

2) I have been asked to take more pictures of the whole championship as all the boys are supporting the blog and they will be on here checking themselves out through the whole season.

A little bit og history.
My 2010 F.BDC car on Forza 3.
  Last year i was in a PS13 which was quite competitive against the other drivers. i also did alot of driving so i understand the track layouts of forza 4. here are some pics.

FULL ATTACK MODE.

WINNER

CHILLING

My 2011 F.BDC car on Forza 4.
  This year after still playing with the PS13 and its old setup i thought i'd try an old enemy of mine the Spec-R Silvia S15. Last year this car had immense grip which for chasing the lead drift car was excellent but, it was also very hard to show style when entering the corners and it never hit my medium. The bods at Turn10 studios have corrected this problem and after testing it out with no alignment changes i found myself handling this car extremely well around the majority of the tracks.
  Here are a few pics of the car in a progress blog style.
my first test day @ motegi with the 2011 F.BDC car. Bought it with an sr20 as the previous owner had already bought and sprayed a full kit, wheels, spoiler, exhaust.

testing out the origianl setup @ motegi, (the wand works lols)

first 2011 wall tap, fair bit of damage but no biggy. The right hand side was a tyre wall tap when i went off on the 2nd corner (just after the tunnel)

end of day 1 at the garage on repair duty. also starting the full transformation for competition season.

the 2011 F.BDC livery with all sponsors and relevent stickers.

passenger side

full feature and spec to follow.

Aswell as 'OW!' we also have another blog in this championship called Millf Appreciation Society. The guys on there are Sean & Teddy and they are nuts when it comes to FULL Speed, FULL Circuit drifting. Along with JC and Kai these 4 cars tear it up on another level. if your ever on forza and if these guys are on, keep your speed up and your balls BIG because they never lift. so a big shout out goes to my friends over at milf and all the other drivers competing this year

link to milf
http://www.milf-appreciation-society.co.uk/blog/

CPD KD Drift @ Lousada Pt 1

Day 1.

Good morning readers and welcome to my trip to portugal to be part of the kd drift championship. Where the best of europe come together for a massive 2 day attack on the classic lousada race circuit. Situated right in the centre of the town.
This is my second visit here and after a 2011 upgrade on equipment and some better knowledge on technique I'm more confident and prepared this time with the Nikon D40.

So after a 9 hour travel from manchester to liverpool and then off to portugal. the biggest risk I took was to hop into a local porto taxi and sit back as the 50+ year old guy drove like a hero doing 100mph. (Note to self get another 90's merc haha).
On arrival to the hotel (which bear in mind was a challenge as the taxi driver had no english and I knew sod all portugese). I was recognised by the reception girl which was nice. Who informed me that she'd also seen other people from last year who had just left the hotel 5mins ago. After settling in and watching what can only be described as a fat camp reality show I ventured down to the local in a blind hope of seeing the other guys and I was happy to hear the cockney chav slang from local burberrun ken 'jungle power' wingate, as he sparks up another fag and drinks what I was told was his 6th red bull + vodka. So a few drinks later and a 2am passout, that finishes day 1.

Oh and to see the cars parked outside the hotel is one hell of a sight. Especially with the southern european background. WOW!

Alex Laws B'day Bash @ Buxton

  Hey guys and girls my first blog post and its the coverage of a good friend of mine, Alex Law's (what an awesome name), 26th birthday bash, which was held at Buxton raceway on the 10th of September. Here he is smoking it up mid transition into the infield.

  Well as the mighty Micra had a broken gearbox mount AGAIN, i got a lift upto the Derby hills by Mr and Mrs AE86 themselves Sam & Gabbie. Which bear in mind is an epic feat considering Gabbie kindly wedged herself in between the rollcage, the back seat, the spare tyres, trolley jack and other drift day parts that Sam brought with him lol. Here's sam prepping for his umpteenth session at Buxton.

  So the day was quite windy and luckily enough for Mrs Law (bear in mind most of these women are not actually married yet lol), who had organised the event for her fella. knows quite alot of local drifters that actually go to Buxton on a monthly basis. As shown here is Alistair Graham, Piers Bailey, Ryan Langford and Sam Self, who are all on the lower power-band side of the drifters but they still managed to have bucket loads of fun all day long.

  On the top end scale of the big boys were the birthday boy, Ant Cookson, Ed Coley, Max Malone, Jake Roberts, who were all smoking it up and getting maximum angles all over the kidney shaped course.

  So a special mention has to go out to the boys who went for the most highlighted part of Buxton, 'THE WALL'. As the solid metal plates surround the whole of the banger racing oval track, normally you can see the usual parts that get the odd kiss here and there. Ryan Langford tapping it a few times in his sierra.

Well on this special occasion one of the local loons popped upto Buxton with a shared BMW named 'Abdul'. Both Ant Cookson and Sir George BIN-A-BIMMA Hough had purchased a special bmw that was going to be like a 'here's something to remember this day' present for Mr Law.

Here is George arriving into Buxton.

  Abdul was trailored up to Buxton as the plan was to completely destroy the whole car whilst also having enormous amounts of fun and laughter. The boys took it in turns to drive Abdul and Ant went out first to get a grip of things especially since Abdul was cambered to the MAX on some epic wheels and he also had what seemed like scaffold bars as suspension lol.

  After a few runs and general spin-oos, Ant took the plunge and went BIG whilst passing the crowd. Now instead of tapping the wall he managed to drift a little further and connect with the RSJ part of the gate which instead of bouncing the car away, it sucked the front end in and resulted in the first of many crashes.

Well after recording Ant going into the wall HARD, it spurred George on to get Abdul repaired and for him to get started on removing the rear end parts with help from Buxton itself. Some people were loony enough to go out as a passenger with george. I was shocked there were no disclaimer forms as he went strong into the corners and he came out of them with even less bodywork lol.

So there you go, a fabulous day had by all. with smiles and laughs all day through. and the big thanks go out to:-

 Mrs Law -Alex Moore

JohnJ - DRIFTONE.CO.UK

Matt - Buxton owner

and everyone else that turned up to celebrate & help for the occasion.

Peace out.

Random1 - OW! photos