What started out as a triple digit scorcher, slowly blended onto a 76 degree smokefest to remember. VegasDrift hosted VegasProAm round 2 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

1st place Mike “Buckey” Laing (Euro-Asian Motorsports, Area77 Rotorworks RX-7)
2nd place Joshua “The Slidin’ Banana” Guild (Spring Mountain Autobody S-14)
3rd place was awarded to VegasProAm round one and XDC Las Vegas winner Aurimas “Odi” Bakchis (GodSpeed, 702 Graphics, S-13 Hatch)

A total of 23 drivers including contenders from Nevada, California, Arizona, Colorado and Utah battled “door to door” for points.

Formula Drift/VegasProAm judge Ernie Fixmer explains the judging and points system and describes the criteria for optimal points.

Pictured above from left to right are the official VegasProAm judges Mike Bolanos (Formula Drift Licensed), Tommy Suell (Formula Drift Licensed) and Ernie Fixmer (Formula Drift Judge/Driver).

Qualification Runs/Drivers List

1. Waylon Deno – #26 – Las Vegas, NV
2. Mike “Buckey” Laing – #24- Las Vegas, NV
3. Danny George – #34 – Las Vegas, NV
4. George Kilada – #8 – Huntington Beach, CA
5. Joshua Guild – #32 – Las Vegas, NV
6. Aurimas Bakchis – #28 -Wrightwood CA
7. Jason Aquino – #22 – Moorpark, CA
8. Garret Nikolich – #10 – PA and now Las Vegas
9. Addrock Rosin – #31 – Scottsdale, AZ
10. Tony Cisneros – #24 – Rancho Cucamonga, CA
11. Shawn Coward – #44 – Las Vegas, NV
12. Dustin Amatori – #36 – Las Vegas, NV
13. Sam Yousif – #35 – Mesa AZ
14. Brandon Patterson – #5 – Agora Hills CA
15. Brandon Serna -#27 – Littleton, CO
16. Robert Gray – #15 – N. Las Vegas, NV

DNQ

17. Angel Alcala – #40 – Las Vegas, NV
18. Brandon Wicknick -38 – Layton UT
19. David Glaser – #3 – N.Las Vegas, NV
20. Joel Mondragon – #13 – Mesa, AZ
21. Rainer Ramolete – #39 – Las Vegas, NV
22. Chris Brown – #37 – Las Vegas, NV
23. Arenas, Jordan – #33 – Las Vegas, NV

(Click Top 16 Bracket to enlarge)

“Exhibition of Power” was the name of the game at this event. There was non-stop wall-grazing action and hard knocking music (thanks to DJ Ortho – Team 671).

2nd place winner Josh Guild tandems with Brandon Patterson of the So-Cal Sliders team

Las Vegas Drifter Shawn Coward applies pressure to George Kilada from Huntington Beach, CA.

George Kilada chases Tony Cisneros from Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Local Drifter and #1 qualifier, Waylon Deno (S-12) gives a lesson on taking the “drift line.” Get your notebooks out!

Garret Nikolich goes full lock with his DrtyM30! Notice the new Aero on his ride, he fabricated it all of it from an URAS R31 kit!

Local drifter Robert Gray qualifies for the second time in “Top 16″

Dustin Amatori lightens the load by getting rid of some aero!

Professional RC helicopter pilot, Devin Leblanc, displayed an impressive showing of skill during the intermission.

DSTROYR clothing awarded the top three drivers with new apparel. Be sure to visit Jon Chase’s website www.dstroyr.com and pick up some new gear!!
VegasProAm Round 2 Standings

1. Laing, Mike “Buckey”
2. Guild, Joshua
3. Bakchis, Aurimas “Odi”
4. Rosin, Addrock
5. Kilada, George
6. Cisneros, Tony
7. Patterson, Brandon
8. Deno, Waylon
9. George, Danny
10. Aquino, Jason
11. Nikolich, Garret
12. Coward, Shawn
13. Amatori, Dustin
14. Yousif, Sam
15. Serna, Brandon
16. Grey, Robert
17. Mondragon, Joel
18. Glaser, David
19. Arenas, Jordan
20. Alcala, Angel
21. Wicknick, Brandon
22. Brown, Chris
23. Ramolete, Rainer

Photography by
Edward Ochoa – LVracingscene.com
Jon Chase – dstroyr.com
Kid Yosh – kidyosh.com
Chris Wiesen – cwphotography

JustDrift x Ziptied All Star Bash 2010!

July 3-4 2010
- Saturday Streets of Willow/ Sunday – Streets of Willow and Horse Thief Mile
- Saturday Driffin` Streets of Willow 9am – 5pm Team Driffin 8pm – 11pm
- Sunday Driffin` HTM/Streets of Willow
- 2 Days of Driffin` time! (continue reading…)

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