Formula D Las Vegas

Ahh Formula D, something I’ve had the itch for it ever since it started. I’ve seen plenty of photos from speedhunters, motormavens etc., and I had always looked at my photos from firebird, but they could never compare. I wondered why… I thought I was lighting and colors, but I had my doubts. But I was damn right about it.

This event was being held in Las Vegas. With this in mind, I knew it was going be in a parking lot. I was kind of bummed about it, but what can you do? I was just excited that I was getting a chance to go to Formula D. The trip got off to a rough start. A few hours before we were scheduled to leave, I was walking towards the Integra we were going to take, and it happen to have a flat tire… so I pulled some strings and got an extra pair of rims for the trip.

The trip didn’t feel too long, but I was happy to see the Vegas lights.

We spent the night at a friend’s house; the next morning was full of anticipation for the event. But of course, seeing as how I’m a chubby kid, I had to get my eat on before the event. We stopped at a nice Mexican restaurant called “On The Boarder”, where I had the most AMAZING fish tacos of my life!

Finally it was time to head to the event. We got there fairly early; so parking wasn’t bad at all. Now this is where things began to go downhill. First off, I was already pretty upset about that fact I didn’t get a media pass, and on top of that that it was hot, very hot.

We did a ton of walking around before the drifting even began, and I’m not gonna lie, the event felt like SPOCOM, but outside.

The biggest problem though out the entire event was location, location, location, oh and did I mention LOCATION? There was only ONE good spot to shoot from, and my 200mm just didn’t have the reach. Oh did I forget to say there were at least 50 people I had to fight though to get to the front? Not the mention the RUDE people that would purposely stand in front of me. The shots came out OK at best, but if I’d had a media pass, I’m sure I could have gotten better.

The last hours were just frustrating, I kept getting bumped into, and people were just being flat out annoying. Their comments were just ignorant as hell and some guy had this clapper thing that he’d hit every time they would drift. Let’s just say I wasn’t the only one getting annoyed by it.

I expected a little more, but the course was just so short and not technical at all. I guess they did their best with a parking lot. Overall, the event was ok.

Edited by Fiona Gregory