We are keeping busy building the future, and ahead of a big series to follow during winter- we thought about upgrading our Blog a bit with a larger content window.

Not sure you can see the changes, except for old posts being a bit ”all over the place” now, but lets see if this picture by Carl Kjellberg can help you see the upgrade in size:

(Shot during TIMEATTACK.NU Round III, Mantorp Park- this is one of the best emotional pics I have seen this summer. Smiles, gamefaces and one hell of a machine combining many elements that make Superior what it is!)

Just to test around a bit, here is another pic of the ”old” full size:

(Another masterpiece by Carl Kjellberg who shot this made 4WD Audi drivetrain Mini during Gatebil Mantorp 2012.)

We will continue to make small improvements just so the ”final chapter” of this blogs history will be a pleasant one.

After that… its time to step into the future which could be all black or bright white. Only time can tell what our plans are…

We like to do things our way here at Superior. And when it was time to sum up the year with one last little meet for our family and friends… we sure made no exception to that style.

Here comes a violently good gallery by several photographers, two of them established within the SUPERIOR SELECTED crew- and two extras who add even more meat to the package you’re about to see.

The concept of Superior Meet 2012 was to have fun and try out some things for further developing ideas for the future.

We were surprised by getting so many high profile guests for a ”test run”, and couldn’t ask for more when it comes to material our Filmmakers David Johansson and Daniel Hovdahl  got to work with now during winter…

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Martin F. Persson – BILBILDER.SE:

His pictures speak volumes already, but its been outside the track; and not in the pit area- but far beyond it that Martin has proven his worth to the SUPERIOR SELECTED group.

Despite getting married late in the summer and more or less being offline for the 2nd half of it; he made a fitting ”comeback” for this event. And these two handful of pictures are a good starting point for us:

(Begin with the end? How Noir! This is what the whole day ended with, metaphorically correct with ”one big bang” as six cars pushing the limits for several laps embraced the consequences with a laugh.)

(Did it rain? Sure did. And Norwegian Team RFS did not give a single f*ck that day.)

(Further proof that this might have been some extreme form of Rallycross before Drifting, and it was the most fun they’ve had in a good while.)

(Its been a long first season for the recently started SUPERIOR DRIFT gang, and ignition problems with the S14 while the S15 ended its day next to one big rock (!) might not have been the dream ending for the story- but we’ll fix that next year better then ever!)

(Wham! Bam! Splat! Oivind Oversveen in the house with his mad ”Mr. Burns” Supra!)

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HENRIK OULIE MEDIA:

We added a few guys to our pretty much organic group of contributors this year. And a guy I initially labeled as a ”prospect” grew faster then weed on a porch, and was suddenly delivering more high quality galleries then we could handle!

As a good friend of Daniel Hovdahl and invited drifter Kenneth Groth, he still haven’t gotten a ”home team discount”; the pictures are good enough to be called ”Selected” anyway.

(Things started out not so hot for the little MX-5 carrying Henrik and Daniel Hovdahl: Puncture! Who could have known ”stance” was impractical and dangerous?!)

(These Gulf livery S15’s belong to Christer Halvorsen, Torunn Hegge and Kim Skedsmo. They had one distinct advantage above the rest = Speed. Definately suited for both rallycross and competition Drifting.)

(Sweet pic of SUPERIOR DRIFT minus Daniel Asps S14, and a hella-bunch of familiar people.)

(DTE Systems which is the flag under Oversveen (Supra) and Steffen Rudsengen (LS1 S14) run under, left with cars that had more then just battle scars when the day was over…)

(Someone had the bright idea to try and drift the GoCart track nearby, and soon more followed. Cant wait to show you the video of that in winter…)

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(Certainly not very often anyone is able to capture a focused pick of a mad Mr. Burns Supra…)

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(Kenneth Groth deserved some kind of medal for the way he handled this season. One total wreck and new chassis within two weeks = you must watch the video below! Christer Halvorsen and Kim Skedsmo look on from the right.)

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GIR: Gutten i Røyken – ep.1 from Daniel Hovdahl on Vimeo.

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(Alvin Laegreid was one of the big contributors to this happening, bringing his buddies from Team RFS and others to the mix. Will just a ”great guy” statement say it all?)

(Superior S15 driver Thompa Pettersson brough his new girlfriend along, and also let her drive his car… … … its here somewhere on how that ended.)

(Two frozen filmmakers with Daniel Hovdahl (left) and David Johansson (right) checking out what to hunt with their lenses throughout the day. You bet your sweet ass they got a lot of good stuff filmed that day.)

(This is the day ”after” a lot of hard partying. We used the last bit of hangover energy to do this positive group photo…)

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 STEFFEN AUTO PHOTOGRAPHY:

A fellow from Superior Drivers Club and been around for a while since we imported a mint condition Subaru Legacy B4 RSK 2002 for him.

Has developed a nice eye through the year and we had to include his gallery here as well:

(On the track day part where a dozen or so cars took runs, there was a nice chunky part of Mazda RX-7’s present.)

(Our friends from NKM Racing Team were there too, but without any of their TIMEATTACK.NU cars. Instead bringing their ”second hand” track day racers. Lucky guys!)

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(Pretty dynamic pic, the boys from DTE Systems never seemed to go after anything else then full throttle = Holdt Stumt!)

(Superior Drift crew chief Thomas Wennerström drove his Toyota Soarer JZZ30 which has a lot of smart upgrades for a potent street drifter.)

(Kenneth Nornes of Team RFS brought his 2JZ-powered ER34 Skyline and was not afraid to use it despite such a for norway rare body to drift.)

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Henrik Lindqvist, Driver TIMEATTACK.NU:

For our last batch we go to a less experienced photographer, but who still captured some nice shots to describe our day in the rain.

Henrik usually drives in the TIMEATTACK.NU series with his Ford Fiesta ST, and jumped on the offer to finish the season with some practice. Enjoy:

(As mentioned Daniel Asp in the SUPERIOR DRIFT S14 had troubles, and also lost his signature orange filmed lights. Better or worse without them?)

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(Since you can’t hear the engine sound of this unique Superior Workshop Katrineholm RX-7 with 20B-REW tripple-rotary engine, I think owner Martin ”Gzon” Gustavssons choice of wheels will make you fall in love with this car: Yokohama Advan RS 19″)

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(The whole day ended with a Battle Royale that has not been seen before on Swedish ground. Video video video!)

(Håvard Nesbo also helped out filming and pretty sure he got very close to the action…)

(Can you imagine getting stuck like this? Alvin Laegreid sure could. And he was not alone, plenty of spectacular accidents and everyone had a blast testing the boundries in the rain.)

(Everyone was laughing at the guy trying to be a boss dressed in his winter-clothing. But at the end of the day… guess who was still farm and full of energy to direct the Battle Royale? 😉 )

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in this meet, from the norwegian drifters, media, track day people, crew who helped out and all your friends brought which seemed like genuine people.

Now we are ready to take the Superior-Blog to the next level, but that will mean some sacrifices. Follow OUR FACEBOOK (CLICK!) as we share rumors and fun facts. 2013 we are coming back stronger then ever…

How to end a year of testing new waters and throwing us at so many new challenges; that it feels equally alike that time has stand still and passed at the speed of light…?

Gather your family, friends and add a bunch of exciting guests at a rented track… and just have fun!

This weekend we’ll hold the second annual Superior Meet and yet again it will be a closed affair limited to our invited friends and supporters.

We like to do things the other way around, letting the world and critical masses know what we are up to. But this time we felt we needed a little peace and quiet from that, and to also show how much we care about the loyal friends of Superior who stick by us well outside just the confines of ”E-friendship”.

So for this occasion, there are a few things we would like you to know; as all of this will be captured by some of the best photographers and filmmakers we have in our small little empire.

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Drifting it out – Superior style:

As you can see, the handful of guests that will be on location apart from our own SUPERIOR DRIFT are all some of our personal favorites from the GATEBIL circus. 

Being a personal ”favorite” there has more to do then just the ability to create smoke and control your car while in reckless motion. Its more of a character trait, and that being said- there are so many more we would have liked to have there as we have a lot of love for Norwegian drifters but… Alvin, Öivind, Kenneth & co were the ones who jumped on the idea of a meet like this. And thats how it ended up basically.

…or did it?

Nope! Just a day or so ago, we got some more company as they got wind of our closed meet. So we will now be almost two handful of madmen at the track:

(BTW, dont you just love a cheese banner like this? We would definitely not call this ”Selected” work of ours. But all this came as a surprise for us so… lets just forget about it!)

Ah indeed, more great drifter with a strong focus of 2JZ-powered round of cars. Why not!

The main mission is to shoot a Battle Royale and have lots of fun. After that… We’ll just see what happens. When David Johansson is teaming up with Daniel Hovdahl, we know we shall be in for a treat video-wise during winter!

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TimeAttack.nu unofficial seasons ending training session:

We’ll also host a dozen or two of our friends and members of the sleepy Superior Drivers Club who will get the opportunity to drive the final drops of adrenaline from their bodies on the rented track for several sessions.

Among those coming, although we urged people just to even bring their ”daily drivers” is Tony Wenngren in his awesome Time Attack RX-7 we at Superior built many years ago. Still runing strong as a  rotary-powered beast:

(Martin Fördal Persson is coming to photograph for us, and make sure the guests leave with at least one damn nice pic of their cars.)

We really hope for some enjoyable driving out there, and will keep our lips sealed on what else might show up.

(… three guys that will come and not making a fuzz about it are Erik Karlén, Victor Lennman and Daniel Wembo of NKM Motor. Will be fun to see what Wembos other car from the GT-R looks like… Porsche 996 GT3!)

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Its all about the family… and quality of lifestyle pics:

Apart from already mentioned Martin Fördal Persson (Yeah folks, he just got married), we’ll have Rani Giliana and Norwegian rising star for the SUPERIOR SELECTED team Henrik Oulie there.

(Rani shot Alvin Laegreids Supra earlier during Gatebil Mantorp, and now it has more power then ever in time for this Meet. Expect many cool pics!)

(Henrik Oulie is a close buddy of one of the premier drifters invited; ”The Drifter in black” Kenneth Groth.)

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The evening will be a wild affair too, as over 40 persons have decided to invade a poor little camping village where we’ll hold our ”Viking style Barbecue/Aftertrack”. Should be fun!

If anyone somehow felt left out from our process of invites, dont be shy to send us en E-mail with contact details. It is possible to make anyone enthusiastic about what we do a part of the guest list… info@superiorimports.se

We have a long list of ”shout outs” for those who have supported us (among many) to be able to have this meet despite any dedicated budget and limited time planning it. You know who you are… Thanks!

Well hello there, are you still here? Waiting for better times? That revolution which you are used to when Superior are focused and going into battle?

You might have to wait a bit longer, but trust us when the silence of 2012 means work ”behind the scenes” for 2013 (-14?) has been more then extensive.

We would like to reward our loyal fans with a symbolical desktop of our recently started SUPERIOR DRIFT (CLICK FOR FACEBOOK!), that is also starting to show its been through a lot this season:

Make sure to click the image to get it in crisp hi-resolution. Big thanks toCARL KJELLBERG who likes to pop in and to sweet desktops as a SUPERIOR SELECTED guest sometimes. Much appreciated!

Need more hidden messages, cryptic talk about the future? Didn’t think so! 

We are just going to focus on doing what we do best, post our productions from this season mixed with good photos- and then you are more then welcome with the feedback ON OUR FACEBOOK afterwards. Deal? Ok!

Here is the final piece of the ACTION MEET 2012 puzzle, a race report from the weekend from SUPERIOR DRIFTS point of view.

Enjoy some of our photos taken by SUPERIOR SELECTED Carl Kjellberg. Some snapshots with the iPhone too.

We would like to thank BILSPORT for hosting us, and really hope this becomes an annual thing- because despite that there were quirks to work at… the driving kicked ass which you can read here in the RESULTS and GALLERY!

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Departure —> Arrival:

We have slowly been finding a team formula making our lives much easier in simple things. No bombastic plans were made here, except for the team to perform and meet the criteria for media for our hosts BILSPORT.

As a precaution, we called in Daniel Hovdahl (O’SNAP) to really add some cream to our library of material. You have not seen much promo-material for Superior Drift, but we have a long and exciting low-season coming up where the foundation for 2013 will be layed- so except more then one surprise to show what we are truly made of…

For Action Meet beforehand, we needed some basic graphical stuff made which Daniel whipped up in a basic lunch break- Then to prepare and to pack enough stuff to eat, breathe and sleep this event for 36 or so hours.

That turned into a bit more then we had imagined, but surprisingly enough the Superior Drift street Soarer swallowed it all and we had a comfy ride.

We are blessed to have good friends all around the scene, and our own official Pro Racedriver Alx Danielsson had his old garage at Mantorp Park which we could set base.

You should all do yourself a favor and support this incredibly talented and unique guy on his march back to the top in Swedish racing, we are doing simple stuff for him at the moment and enjoying every minute of it- and as our standard saying goes… more is coming your way.

Backbone is the Asp family, along with friends of Thompa and Daniel.

A good group, and we had a cozy evening together dining in the sunset *naw* before retiring in good time at our garage.

The ”family within the family” was strongly gathered as Superior Drift has become a ”cell” within at just this short time.

Apart from a highly annoying and regressed group of car audi guys and their probably ”freudian” size of bass; we had a good night of sleep neatly tucked between a whole bunch of race cars.

Don’t say you ”Eat – Sleep – Race” unless you’ve tried this experience!

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Preparations for race:

The mood was surprisingly loose at the morning as we had another ”family style” breakfast buffet.

The days of flashy race trailers and set tables are a few years ahead, but everyone are chipping in and its always a pleasure to get started on raceday!

Our event sponsors AT Däck arrived in good time, owner Aldin was a real soldier and found his way to switch us up for fresh meat to devour.

He arrived together with a real good friend and owner of a ”Superior imported” Skyline ER34 with a widebody Crossfire kit. Yum!

Thanks to Micke Svensson for letting us his tire-machine. We hope AT Däck appreciated the rented space for this event, and we would love to develop this formula for future events too- as 2012 for us is a a way of just getting established and just pursuing much sponsorship (yet).

While the guys were getting prepared, I went looking for cars to feature and throw an extra eye on.

Especially for our Ten of the Best list, but a separate report from this is coming and we will have plenty of tasty pics from our SUPERIOR SELECTED man Carl Kjellberg (damn buff guy too, no homo!).

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Training:

Frustrating enough, the logistics of this event is quite a challenge to pull of. As they run some of Swedens sharpest ”semi-streetable” drag cars on the long straight on Mantorp Park; they were hoping to let the drifters run in between.

Big no-no to be honest, and it even had ”cool as a rock” Lasse Asp Sr boiling with restlessness as drifting is an adrenaline-sport.

No proper and continuous training not only hurts the contenders, pretty sure the crowd at this point felt a bit cheated- but it was picking up later on.

But at least Superior Media mainstay David Johansson had plenty of time to shoot material in the pits:

From each drivers perspective, here is what they had to say together with a few quotes from other parts of the crew:

Daniel Asp: ”I have a lot more angle now, just need to find speed. Probably avoid the sand a bit too, although it was a quite effectful and even got a scoop of it in the car… Ooops!”.

Thompa Pettersson: ”Gearing is new for this event, and I haven’t found the ”sweet spot” yet where I can dump the clutch well through gears in turns. Working on it!”

Björn Runfeldt (spotter): ”They need to commit more, speed speed speed. Maybe a bit of confidence lacking here, lack of training doesn’t help that.”

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Qualification:

With bland results and practically futile amount of training, it was getting into the qualifiers with low expectations.

Daniel was first out with the Rocket Bunny styled S14, and struggled badly in his first run- straightening out several times and not having any speed. Could almost feel a lot of hesitation from behind the wheel up to the rafters.

Second run was even worse, sliding quite badly into the sand with a jump that could make it into an episode of the ”A-team”. Unfortunately something got caught in the impact, and he got the worrying ”low oil pressure” warning meaning it was over this time around…

Thompa seemed to had gotten over some of his deamons, with decent speed on initiation and clutch-kicking his way around the track.

He didn’t burn the house down, but decent strides forward and should be enough for a Top 16 qualification.

In all honest and brutal straightforwardness, this was easy to predict- not only for our team but for many others too except for maybe the top echelon of drivers = Lack of training meant very shaky runs, and add to that long periods of waiting for being allowed to run.

Actually the other half of drivers could have taken a lunch break when qualifiers started until the first one had run. Imagine that if it was a sleepy experience for the crowd, how much of a looong enduring pain it must be for a drifter filled with adrenaline?

Tough cookie, we’ll just have to find another way to bite it next time!

Elimination:

Sadly, the writing on the wall for Daniel was done pretty early. And he was quite disappointed in the pits being out of the Top 16.

But we all have our focus on the future and are at great spirit anyway!

Nothing to add to that, another rock added to the foundation of building experience in proper race mode- which undisputedley cannot be argued can be replaced by but grinding it out competition after competition.

Thompa had a tough opponent after slipping in qualifying 15th, going up against a car and driver filled with a desire for vengeance: Limmet DrifTeam.

This 1-series BMW has been something we’ve followed since its premiere at ELMIA EXPO 2012, and just as he had sorted out the chassis of the car and gotten good results in all events attended- busted his gearbox during Gatebil Rudskogen.

But now he was back, and with a vengeance; although he was hitting dirt in the lead run and giving Thompa a proper chance to advance… the Superior Drift driver was stressed out by the Supercharged german V8 and ventured far into the sand in the 2nd run.

Only highlight was that he got a decent jump on the Bimmer and the ”what if” he had held it… is not of any interest at all actually.

Competition over!

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There is a lot more to be said and some pictures to be added, but we’ll work on this report and hope you check out the SUPERIOR DRIFT FACEBOOK until then for more!

Thanks to everyone who supported us this weekend, and with the pics in mind- especially Carl Kjellberg!

As we try to put an event behind us swiftly with plenty of media released quickly; we have a treat for you from BILSPORT Action Meet 2012 tonight.

Nice and meaty gallery from SUPERIOR SELECTED Carl Kjellberg, depicting all the action from the drifting- and make sure to read the SUMMARY/RESULTS HERE too!

This event came in driving skill right on top of the list, but lacked a bit in the smooth and borderline luxury facilities/schedule that TIERP DRIFT CHALLENGE had put on a few weeks earlier.

One thing is for sure, with two such awe-inspiring events behind us; drifting has a sweet future ahead of us for 2013…

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(Start of with the final run? Why not! Daniel ”Limmet” Liimatainen in the 1-series finally got a podium finish but had little to put against Johan ”Hollywood” Halvarsson in the signature green widebody S15 sponsored by J-spec.)

(On his way to the final ”Hollywood” was relenentless and showed nobody any mercy, which is one thing I like about him- not giving any leanience to his opponents no matter their name. Rumor has it in fact, that Johan doesnt even like to practive more then ”just enough” in order to save up adrenaline and focus for his battles…)

(Speaking of determination and ”no-fear” attitude, Christian Halvorsen; almost a namesake of our Swedish star- showed that the only way to avoid getting ”smoked out” is to stick it right in the rear. Here being succesful vs Rockstars own Mikael Svensson.)

(At the same event, Halvorsen had his teammate Kim Skedsmo with him- but the #2 Gulf S15 was far from as fortunate as the other one…)

(Underdogs? We love underdogs! Here is one of them in Andreas Jansson, whose Bad ass parts S13 is always capable of beating the best and even placing really high in the ”Breisladd world championship”. It was not his day this time though.)

(Another underdog we felt sorry for, Andreas ”Mad Mange” Magnusson smashed his side at Tierp and was hungry to do a good result- but failures and a trip to the sandbox ended his day early.)

(Someone who used to be an underdog instead was faintly dissapointed with his performance here. Teemu Peltola from Black Smoke Racing got eliminated in the Top 8 and did not feel comfortable with the way the runs were flowing.)

(Luck ran out for our friends from Raidopower Motorsport when Tokan Bielkelöf got eliminated in a close ”OMT” vs the above Mercedes wagon. Seemed as a catalyst of bad luck as seeding was not to his favour, and he just lost out the regional champ due to this. We still got your back to push for the SPDS-series win Anders!)

(We end this blogpost with a nice widescreen picture of a widebody Johan ”Hollywood” Halvarsson, who is that good that he gets all the attention. We cant wait to beat him one day with the Superior Drift cars. 😉 ).

***PLEASE NOTE! Thumbnails do not work, but click them and violá you will be able to browse the full 20 pic gallery!***

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We would like to thank BILSPORT for their hospitality, and hope to have a ”general” gallery from the rest of the event too despite ”logistics” and focus on drifting keeping us scattered.

Check out this gallery on OUR FACEBOOK and go ”tag” yourself if you are one of these hardcore drifters!

It was time again to venture and see how far the Swedish Drifting scene has gone, with a highly staked (50 000:- SEK) BILSPORT Action Meet – or more in detail the Dotz Drifting Challenge! We were just a few weeks ago at a state of the art facility at TIERP ARENA and watched some decent runs but a damn tight ship in execution; and here the roles would be a bit reversed. Lets start with qualifiers! – – – – – Qualifiers: In what might have been the longest and most restless stage of the day, I took a seat in the audience stand and watched as 20 something cars tried to be one of the 16 that progressed. Naturally main focus was on SUPERIOR DRIFT, but having gotten to know everyone within the drifting circuit here in Sweden makes it even more interesting. We also had a few norwegian guests, and also a finnish one (very familiar) so the starting line-up was definitely as strong as it ever could have been. But back to the restlessness, because most of the runs where quite tedious and careful and you had to wait a while in between the single runs. The speaker was not properly ”warmed up” either, not really getting into the context of drifting to the audience- and probably not fed direct info from judges either. So we are all in for a quite *undramatic* narration of the event. For the driving at self, there were some highlights seeing the ”Big 5” in Sweden going at it. Guys like Johan Halvarsson, Limmet DrifTeam, Tokan of Raidopower and hungry veterans like Mikael Svensson and ”not so innocent” newcomer Daniel Björck really set things off far from the rest of the field. Was also incredibly amazed on Andreas Janssons first run which was jaw-droppingly good in my opinion. This guy has the chassis and skills, but seems to have lots of struggles on the technical side which is a shame. More cars noticed indeed were Christian Halvorssens Nissan Silvia S15 in the classic Gulf colors, a lot of rock and roll ”Gatebil style” but not a very high qualification spot. Things would tell it doesn’t matter much when the heat is on… Our own boys did not do more then to add competition experience this time around. Daniel Asp struggled badly and hit heavy sand with a big thump meaning he wasn’t totally nullified; but the other run was nothing to brag home with either. Gone from competition! Thompa Pettersson in the old Driftspeed Formula Drift S15 had higher hopes, but was shaky and just managed to qualify although he wasn’t the only one having problems. In summary, the qualifiers were struck in a bad way by limited training and too long waiting times. That makes absolutely nobody a happy camper… The scores finally looked something like this, my subjective views don’t mirror them do they: – – – – – Top 16: We’ll let the pics to most of the talking here, and if you get into it you will see how the Top 16 qualifiers eventually looked: (Halvarsson vs Pehrsson: Johan Halvarsson is by default the ”big dog” in any Swedish Drifting event he enters. And he barked down the S13 with R32 GT-R front pretty badly with an easy win.) (Andreas Jansson vs Dotz Drift: Being so good in the first round, I was expecting a lot from Andreas and he had a adrenaline-filled runs with the Dotz sponsors car; but surprisingly enough got eliminated.) (Mikael Svensson vs 7-series BMW: Mikael Svensson had high hopes for this event, the seasoned driver for Rockstar / Team SWR made short work of the big 7-series smoking him out!) (Dennis Martinsson vs Christian Halvorssen: Dubbed by ourselves as an underdog in any event, Martinsson in the Mercedes could have been in a breakthrough here- but it was not to cialis 30 day be here as Halvorssens norwegian thunder kicked in and he chased the hell out him!) (Limmet DrifTeam vs Superior Drift S15: A bit of a city-rivalery as Gothenburg regions Daniel ”Limmet” Liimatainen took on Thompa who hails from just outside Stockholm. In short words, some dirt and unknown ”boundaries crossed” in the first run; but Thompa could not handle the transition very well and ended his day in sand and without a rear bumper!). (Robin HA vs Fredrik Sjödin Heavy-hitting run just like we want it! Lots of wiiide angles and action. Shame Robin HA planted his car in the first sandbox in the second run, easy win for northerner Fredrik Sjödin.)   (Björck vs unknown: Daniel Björck has showed up with his VW V8 beast and : made many drifters afraid indeed. And in perhaps the smokiest first run, followed by the most aggressive chase-run; went on to Top 8.) (Tokan Raidopower vs Black Smoke Racing: The most interesting run of the Top 16, with an unfortunate seed for Tokan of free viagra pills Raidopower running into the mythical beast called Black Smoke Racing. We could go a lot into detail here, but it was damn close and personally I could have given Tokan the nod for keeping more distance, but it went to ”one more time”. Unfortunately Tokan let himself down there and hit sand in his first run, and was probably the most disappointed of all drivers after this weekend…) – – – – – Top 8: (Johan Halvarsson vs Dotz Drift: No mercy yet again shown by Johan ”Hollywood” Halvarsson. Nobody chases like him in Sweden, the Dotz car was an easy snack indeed.) (Halvorssen vs Svensson: Christian showed fearlessness from the S15 and chased Mike really well through think smoke- and then with his well-built machine really put on a clinic in speed going deeper into this and winning us over big time as fans!) (Limmet DrifTeam vs Sjödin: Good technical, but not spectacular driving by both leading to a ”OMT” (= One More Time) which was also close; but the man with the neon smiley stickers advance to the semi-finals.) (Daniel Björck vs Black Smoke Racing: This was the only battle I felt was a let-down, as Turbo+compressor and diesel fueled taking viagra with cialis Teemu Peltola got eliminated by Daniel Björck. A bit more speed and action was my analysis of why.) Semi-finals: (Halvarsson vs Halvorssen: Drop me a big can of OMG (OH MY GOD!) for this battle! The similarly named and joint S15 driving nut cases did the best driving I’ve experience live and did it TWICE! I had really warmed up to Christian Halvorssens Gulf S15 and his incredible speed in lead runs, but he pushed ”Hollywood” Halvarsson to be the true star that he is- and I can’t argue with the judges giving him the win. All in all, if you were here live and saw it in person… you won. Bigtime.) (Björck vs Limmet DrifTeam: Again with a rather unspectacular run involving Daniel Björck, he seemed clearly frustrated by Limmets pretty slow driving in the lead. But hitting a clipping-point with impact which sent the cone at my feet some 20m away did not help either. Daniel Liimatainen to the final vs ”Hollywood” it was!) – – – – – Third price: (Halvorssen vs Björck: Things got pretty heated here, Halvorssens Gatebil-like driving but with merciless accuracy was hard to handle for Daniel; who after the first run was bumped into after the finish- sparking a bit of emotions. In my opinion a perfect finish to the smokiest run of the day, controversy is good! Then in the lead, the gap was once again created which had taken Norways hope this far to finally seize a well-deserved top finish!) Final: (Johan ”Hollywood” Halvarsson vs Daniel ”Limmet DrifTeam” Liimatainen: No sense in describing this final run as it seemed fueled more about emotion then skills. Johan Halvarsson took his revenge from the previous Gatebil Mantorp debacle when Daniel eliminated him- and took first place and a nice sum of 20 000:- SEK at that. Congrats! (From the left: Daniel Liimatainen, Johan Halvarsson and Christian Halvorssen.) – – – – –

After getting our  Superior Drift teams debut done at TIERP DRIFT CHALLENGE, we move on to our next competition which will be a good one- BILSPORT ACTION MEET 2012 and more specifically Dotz Drift Challenge!

We were only pleased with getting it over with, and hope to do better at a much faster track. This is a meet we have been to for many years in a row, and hope to have a lot of support.

(Picture by: Steffen Nilsen of Superior Drivers Club. Team Managers car; Soarer JZZ30)

The whole family & friends of Superior are invited here, as this is the only event that features the best in Dragracing, Drifting and showcars all at one place for one day.

Throw in a little Gymkhana and you’ve got most bases covered in the auto-enthusiast community, as our movie from last year proves very well. Something for everyone!

What will Superior be up to at this meet then? Lets find out:

Superior-family hospitality:

Family comes first, and we intend to have a nice stand on location where friends from past, present and future are more then welcome.

Expect plenty of coffee to be served and perhaps a little snack? Our event sponsors and different benefactors wont be disappointed.

Don’t be afraid to come by and say hi. All our cars from the Superior Drift team will be at your hands to take a photo in, children are extra welcome!

SUPERIOR SELECTED ”Ten of the best”:

We continue a tradition from most our meets we’ve done together with BILSPORT MAGAZINE who is our host for this meet.

The concept is simple, we pick ten cars that hit our stomach and hearts the most. Among previous winners you can find icons in the Swedish car culture scene such as Roland aka ”Dub-Rolle” and Christoffer Geiros:

(Rolands awe-inspiring Corolla made our jaws drop during ELMIA CUSTOM AND MOTORSHOW 2012, and was then in full domino-effect to conquer the world with features on SPEEDHUNTERS.COM and many other big media outlets.)

(The first ever ”Ten of the best” winner was Christoffer Geiros and his simply put s i c k Audi A4 build. This was during the CUSTOM & MOTORSHOW 2011.)

As usual you can expect us to come shoot a lot of video, so we can make a new movie of this years meet. But also to have a really good time and spread positive vibes in this last (?) truly big meet of the year in Sweden.

(The full squadron that is Superior Drift will be at Mantorp Park this weekend, and hope to make some noise in the 50 000:- SEK drift competition. Pic by our friend JALLEGRAPHICS!)

We would like to think BILSPORT for the continuous support, and truly appreciate them for hosting us and believing in what we do at Superior.

There will be several event sponsors and maybe a few surprises to announce as well, but keep looking at OUR FACEBOOK for the spontaneous ones while the big news drop here!

As you probably already read in our SUMMARY OF TIERP DRIFT CHALLENGE last sunday, there was a lot to offer at TIERP ARENA this weekend.

Its time for step two in our event coverage, finishing things off with a video which might take a while. Just enjoy these pics freelancer Patrik KOMETFOTO Karlsson took during the event and was kind enough to pair up with our blog!

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(Save the best for last, or start with it? This extremely close battle between our own Daniel Asp in the Rocket Bunny LS2 powered S14 and Jim Olofsson in his old BMW E30 had everyone talking. Are you uncertain why?)

(This R32 Skyline driven by Martin Poorhamidi was one of those ”I need to take a closer look” kind of things I never ended up doing. Shame as the constantly hassled Dane looked to run an impressive custom body kit and a screaming single turbo RB20 engine…)

(One of our favourites in the lower class, but the only thing stopping this 2JZ-GTE powered IS200 from running with the big boys is a roll-cage. Great workmanship and driving skill gave Jens Stark the overall win here!)

(We’ve ran into a small and enthusiastic guy on more then one occasion nicknamed ”The weasel”, so it was fun to see his ”Grassroot-ish” 200SX with a 1JZ-GTE in action finally. Top 16 was all she wrote though.)

(Good proximity didn’t matter as Mr.Skogsby in the silver S13 got eliminated by veteran Mikael Svensson in this Top 16 battle. It does impress us though that only one of them is street-driven… guess which one?)

(The Superior S15 owned/driven by Thompa Pettersson has a biiig ”need for speed” and really didnt cut loose until twin-drifting with the best in Sweden. Although the car has heritage from Formula Drift and more, its still an underdog in competition.)

(Another car from the lower class, with someone who deserves acknowledgement for his dedication as a rookie in the sport. Fredrik ”LoFet” Löfmans Supra will with more power and experience for its owner be a force in the future.)

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(90’s Camaros competing in Drifting, with heritage from purebred racing…? Pelle Erikssons ”Swedish Drift Force”  team have slowly stocked up on resources, and just like us been patient competing. Martin who drives this car was eliminated in a typical ”refs got it wrong” battle with ”Tokan” of Raidopower Motorsport but; we’ll leave more then that unsaid and say we want to see more from the ”primer grey” US cars!)

(Tokan of Raidpower was once again involved in a controversial judges call against red-hot Daniel Björck in his monster RWD V8 Golf. I actually believe firmly they did the right call here, but a real winner creates his own luck and Anders aka ”Tokan” is doing his ’thang while others focus on whining…)

(Slap that clipping point Mr. Asp! After securing good enough points to qualify, Daniel decided to gamble a bit and went ”all in” which nearly paid off. But since drifting is about putting on a show, I doubt he has regrets about the low score from this run.)

(One of the most consistent but yet a bit ”un-sung” drivers in the Swedish drifting scene is Mercedes E190  lover Dennis Martinsson. We really like his odd choice of car, and its a sweet sounding machine too. Almost took him to third place, but Daniel Björck nudged him away unfortunately. Still very highly ranked and a favourite of ours.)

(…and here ladies and gentlemen, you see the top two drifters in Sweden at the moment- fittingly facing off in the final of this event. ”Tokan” of Raidopower could not match a Johan Halvarsson of Team Jspec thats focused to win. Congrats!)

(The podium, from the left: Daniel Björck, Johan ”Hollywood” Halvarsson and ”Tokan” Bielkelöf. A very fair Top 3, except we would have loved to see one of our guys there too… 😉 ).

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Again, big thanks to the awe-inspiring TIERP ARENA (go ”Like” ’em!) and their staff who made this a stress-free event for us to debut at.

If you want to read more about drifting them check our the SUPERIOR FACEBOOK and also the one specifically for OUR DRIFT TEAM. Appreciate KOMETFOTO for the pics too!

The smell of tiresmoke from the Final 16 at Tierp Drift Challenge is still fresh on our clothes, and we’re getting you up to date with a summary right here right now!

This was probably Swedens most prestigeous Drift competition yet, set at the newly built TIERP ARENA– you just couldn’t ask for better ingredients to showcase the sport.

Pictures are screenshots filmed by Daniel ”O’SNAP” Hovdahl for us, and we hope top present a few finished videos in the near future with the best from this event. Enjoy!

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Qualification:

In three qualifying attempts you had your two best results place you into a classic ”top vs bottom” format. Only the Top 16 qualified, and suddenly people knew you had to be sharp from the first practice to get somewhere.

Kudos to the Swedish Motorsport Federation who decided on this format, as the competetive part of drifting up to this point in Sweden has been a little ”undemanding” on the drivers.

Therfor some were unfortunate, like our buddy Andreas Jansson in his Bad Ass Parts sponsored S13; who discovered his turbo had crapped out in the first run… and then an all-nighter later stood on the line without practice and eventually missed out.

Better luck next time mate!

Our own Superior Drift debut was of mixed results. Daniel Asp in the Rocket Bunny LS2 powered S14 drive ran solidly.

When he had already posted two runs that would take him on, he decided to ”crazy up” a bit and actually put on quite a show picking out each clipping point like a champ (although unintentially and just on the wrong side of margin):

Another big incident during qualifiers was ”Tokan” of Raidopower and a harsh backwards crash into the concrete wall.

In the corner of my eye, and it didn’t seem bad at first; but after some pit heroics straightening it out- he was lucky not more was busted in the drivetrain etc. Look at the carnage!

Damn impressed by this VW Golf with a V8 driven by a Mr. Björck, whose brother is a driver in the TTA Elite league of racing:

Apparantly driving skills run in this family, and the car itself had many people more then impressed…

At this moment the best we could get in order to follow the qualifying was this pic of the Top 16 tree.

So just click the picture and make out the best you can from it!

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Top 16:

For the finals I actually drew the short straw of the whole spectators experience, just seeing plenty of the big corner action and not the final more technical part.

The idea for the layout was for it to be totally dedicated for the huge rafters of audience, and I definately think they got their moneys worth.

Drivers were also extremely positive, Johan ”Hollywood” Halvarsson said he really had the ”time of his life” driving here.

Big positive words coming from the by far most established and respected ”semi-pro” drifter we have in Sweden…

Too bad our own Thompa Pettersson had to run into him as the opener, but he refused to be a sacrifical lamb and put up a decent fight in especially the first run- but ”Hollywood” passed on deservedly.

Upsets along the way were few, some established drivers like Mikael ”wunderbaum” Svensson spun out, while birthday boy ”Mad Mange” Magnusson gave us the hardest crash of the weekend:

We really hope he will with the aid of sponsors get his custom built Opel Calibra together very soon. Always big fans of something different…

Daniel Asp also spun out misjudging his speed trying to catch up northerner Jim Olofsson in his E30 BMW. They did in our humble opionion bring us the tightest follow-up run though:

Rounding things of here, the final four consisted of the following:

Daniel Björk (VW Golf V8) vs ”Tokan” of Raidopower

Johan Halvarsson S15 2JZ vs Dennis Martinsson Mercedes E190

Controversy in the judging of the first semi, but series leader ”Tokan” eventually advanced after a ”one more time”- while Halvarsson made short work of Dennis ”Dempa” Martinssons very nice sounding Merc Turbo to get to the final battle.

In there we saw ”Hollywood” yet again live up to his ”the best drifter in Sweden” epithomy, and all we can do is to ask ourselves how long ”Tokan” can cling on to his POWERDRIFT SERIES lead before the ”blacksmith” catches up…

(From the right: Daniel Bjørck, Johan ”Hollywood”  Halvarsson and ”Tokan” of Raidopower Motorsport).

Conclusion:

Was this indeed the future of Swedish Drifting, at a ”bite size”? The crowd of almost 1500 people would be fools to disagree, and it truly goes both ways that TIERP ARENA with their big league facilities matched well with a up and coming Motorsport such as drifting.

We would like to thank the entire event staff, from the manager Emelie Carlswärd to every member of the staff who worked at the event. We were professionally treated at every little inch of the event.

From getting coffee to the press room to getting humble free time at the track to shoot some promo for both the arena and ourselves:

Also a thumbs up to the Swedish Motorsport Federation officialls, who are proving everyone wrong in being ”stuck in the past”. They did the formal running of the event at the track with time to spare at every block of the schedule. A l l weekend!

More of this please, keep up the good work everyone involved these two days!

The first day of Tierp Drifting Challenge, which is also Swedish Powerdrift Series #4 has passed by half; and I must say its been a juicy bite into the future of the Swedish Drift scene!

Lets face, it the ultra-modern venue and professional organization of TIERP ARENA already make other Swedish Drifting events look very bad; but lets take a quick look on different cars & teams my simple mobile phone camera snapped here wandering about a bit.

First things first: Surprise surprise… Is that a quartermile dragstrip you see…?

Yes indeed, this is actually a venue ranked as high as one of the worlds five best when it comes to this radically different motorsport from drifting- but again we´re speaking strict drifting here where the point is to not going straight.

The sport is still very young here in Sweden while the common courage of drivers to ”dare to take the first steps” is borderline cowardice- so you have to focus on the top dogs in order to find little glimmers of gold (above Johan Halvarsson of Team J-spec definately being one of them).

Johan will once again have to bear the pressure of being both a crowd and competition winner favourite. He slipped up on Gatebil Mantorp but made up for it winning the last Powerdrift event. Repeat now?

Another team I cant wait to see finally in action is Pelle Erikssons Swedish Drift Force. They have struggled to get both 454cc V8 Camaros running, but are from around here and will want to leave their mark here.

Its a double-edgded sword when you invest a lot into a really professional look of a team, but I really wish people would totally support anyone getting into drifting as dedicatedly as Pelle and his teammate Mattias have.

From the grassroots we have a prime example of The Skogsby brothers Nissan 200SX powered by a RB25 Skyline engine.

This time its Johan driving the previous events runner-up, and we shall see if he can upset once again.

Someone we cannot omit is the leader of the pack: ”Tokan” driving for Team Raidopower Motorsport. He has been consistent all season long, and kept his car running- so surely again someone to bet on to reach far into the mix.

He complained about issues with his clutch, but we feel its strategic excusing at early stage… 😉

Always room to mention what class-acts Team Raidopower are, always helpful too. So lets hope we can crush them in defeat as a big thank you! 😉

So what about the boys in vintage teal & orange? Well, they dont look too bothered about doing their debut against the rest of the Swedish elite. Do they?

We will see, so far they are struggling in the slippery grip. Thompas S15 needs more speed, while Daniel might need some  more torque.

Excuses for us as well! Alas, I must find better things to write about… Back with another part tonight and more of the drivers/teams here!

Äntligen är det dags för Superior Drift att tävla för första gången, och lika roligt är det att detta görs ihop med superfräscha TIERP ARENA  när de kör sin spektakulära Tierp Drifting Challenge nu i helgen den 20 – 21 Juli!

Denna tævling ingår æven i Swedish Powerdrift Series #4!

¨Vi har länge önskat ett samarbete med ännu en väl etablerad bana i Sverige, och satsningen Tierp Arena gjort för Svensk Motorsport saknar i nutid motstycke.
Därför är vi stolta över att få ett mediasamarbete med dom i samma veva som vi låter vårt Superior Drift göra debut i tävlings-sammanhang. Nyfikenheten hos allmänheten och oss själva om var vi står gentemot Svenska eliten i Drifting är stor. Ser oerhört mycket fram emot detta!¨

-Mikael Jarosinski, Team Manager – Superior Drift.

På plats har vi med oss följande bilar:

Daniel Asp har med två Gatebil-event i bagaget hittat ett bra flyt i den maskin han från grund och botten byggt själv ute i Vallentunes djupa skogar ihop med sin far Asp Sr. Kan hemmaplan skicka denna LS2 V8 bestyckade Nissan 200SX djupt in i tävlingen?

Thomas Petterssons Nissan Silvia S15 har meriter som ingen annan med tävlan i både Formula Drift och D1GP över hela jorden. Nu har dock Thompa gjort detta till sin bil, och delvis bemästrat den oerhörda teknik som krävs för att köra en så avancerad maskin; gjord för drifting i farter över 150km/h.

Får räknas som en joker i sammanhanget, kan sluta hursomhelst!

På plats i depån hela eventen finner ni denna Toyota Soarer -99 som blivit prisbelönt på bl.a. Gatebil över sin fina dekor lagd av Stockholm-företaget WRAPZONE .

Dekoren i sig togs fram helt av oss på Superior själva tillsammans med vår norska partner Daniel OSNAP Hovdahl, och har mött fler älska/hata reaktioner än vi hade räknat med.

Hela eventet är alla under 15 år välkomna att provsitta och ta en bild med bilen, kanske t.o.m. gasa lite!

Ett stort tack till Emelie Carlswärd på TIERP ARENA som visat tilltro över att Superior är ett spännande komplement i ett stort event som detta.

Vi hoppas alla fans och belackare letar sig till Tierp Arena i helgen och letar upp våran monter/depå på plats, där vi tar emot er med öppna armar- mer info om alla happenings på plats kommer under veckan.

Vi gillar snabba Sedaner.. Allt det där med AMG.. M.. RS..
Men där är något speciellt med det otippade.. Som gör det ännu mer till en Sleeper..

Lotus Omega..

Scorpio Cosworth (Haft en sån)…

Holden/ Vauxhaull bilarna med Corvette motor.

Ni förstår vart jag är på väg..

När det är mitt i mellan en in-house tuner.. Och eftermarknads tuner.Som pressar bilen till strax under gränsen.. Kostar 3 gånger än bilen i sej.. Och som dödar allt som heter garanti, Besiktningsgodkänt, Försäkringar osv osv.

För visst var Mercedes 500E mer spännande än E50 AMG?

Visst är RS2 mer exotiskt än vilken RS4 som helst..

Det handlar om att skapa kärleksbarn mellan olika företag..
Men framför allt.. Att ha något unikt som ev inte vilken tjock plånbok som helst kan köpa.. Men ÄNDÅ ha all slags garanti som när du köper en vanlig brukis..

Vad har vi för nått sånt idag?
Inget.. Nissans Juke-R är inte i samma liga..

Men så har vi…. Nästan.. Eller kanske..

S60 Polestar Concept.

Polsestar känner vi till sen C30 conceptet som alla älskade..

Men ändå hatade för att Volvo själva inte byggde den.

Nu (igår) så sas det att Volvo är i seriösa diskussioner med att bygga Polestar modeller in-house..

Så vad är en Polestar?

Ska vi kalla det för en Volvo S60 Polestar Edition?

Är det Volvo?

Kommer det att bli en Volvo?

Är det en ersättare till Volvo R?

Förra helgen när vi var på TTA Race i Falkenberg för att bland annat se team Polestar

(Som jag insåg sen var ett helt skilt team ifrån Volvo??) så stod detta fullt fungerande one off concept på plats.

Och vi tog tillfället i akt med att fråga hur det ligger till.. Eller hur det låg till just förra helgen iallafall innan Volvos ”serious discussion” utlåtande igår.

Superior TV träffar: Polestar Racing from Superior Media on Vimeo.

Finns det nån där ute som skulle vilja se mej göra en provkörning av den bilen? 😉

Tills dess kan ni roa er med några Polestar C30 provkörningar.

Tryck på 4an i rutan för att komma till Polestar delen.

Det känns som att Gatebil Mantorp är redan så oaktuellt.. Trots att det bara var för någon helg sen.. Men dels så händer det så så mycket hela tiden nu under sommaren.. Och dels så har vi sedan den söndagen på Mantorp redan sett fram emot Gatebil Rudskogen.. Så därför har vi redan avslutat Mantorp helt och hållet.. och allt det materialet som vi samlade på oss insåg vi att det gör mer nytta under det kalla, stillastående halvåren än nu under dagarna precis innan mäktiga Rudskogen.

Vilket som.. När vi var på Mantorp under Gatebil helgen så som vanligt missade man det mesta i all stress..

Men nån gång mellan varven då jag sprang till min bil i Superior Campet så såg jag en rätt så fräck Evo rulla in och ställa sej mitt emot mej.

Ok.. En mattgrön Evo.. Rätt så fräckt..
Det tar lite emot att erkänna att matta färger är faktiskt inte utdött ännu..
Bara mycket mycket (mycket) vanligare..

Det är fortfarande snyggt oavsett.. Även om jag dömde ut det.. Eller just mattsvart iallafall för 1-2 år sen.

Vilket som.. Matt gäller fortfarande.. Bara i annat än svart..

Så en mattgrön Evo.. Det var väl nice..

Timmarna och stressandet fortsatte.. Och det snackades om nån tjej med Evo hela tiden.. Men jag kopplade inte alls vad det gällde just då..

Jag förstår senare att det var just den mattgröna evon som grabbarna snackade om..
Yeah yeah.. Så vadå? Ännu en snusande manhaftig ”tjej” eller?

Något senare när jag stod i depån så ser jag bilen rulla ut..

Slicks.. Åhfan… Tjejen är seriös..

Springandet och stressandet fortsatte.. Och jag bestämde mej för att ta en närmre titt på bilen när jag hade vägarna förbi..

Fullbur.. Rensad.. Och slicks som sagt. Inte illa..
Och då plötsligt var det plötsligt lite lite mer intressant just över att det var en tjej.. Oavsett hur mycket flata/manlig/ful hon nu kunde vara..

Men men..

Stressen mattade ut mej. Och jag tog mej en liten sista i verkstaden på dag 2..
Eller rättare sagt jag däckade..

När jag en liten stund senare vaknar upp av Danne DK´s stinkande strumpor så ger jag mej ut på lite frisk luft.. Och går mot min bil.

På väg mot vårt camp så står där en väldigt söt, blond tjej med stort leende och kollar på mej… Och hälsar trevligt..
Yrvaken som jag är så fattade jag noll.. Just då.. Och nickade bara till lite.

Det var t.o.m som så att det var som först när jag sa till Rani att vi skulle åka iväg lite avskilt och ta bilder på den där Evon, Med eller utan ”brud” som jag förstod att den där nätta lilla, blonda tjejen var både ägare och förare till den fräcka Evon…

Och som om inte det vore nog.. Så kändes det som om alla mina fördomar mot tjejer i bilvärlden och tjejer allmänt fick sej en fet bitchslap när det visade sej att denna tjejen var t.o.m ännu trevligare än vad hon var söt!

Och bilen var inte bara snygg utan helt seriöst byggd för att köra bana..
Och detta var första gången hon var ute på bana med bilen.. Och hon börjar med Slicks!!!

Snacka om att det är en brud som laddar! (Tråkig Turbo-hint)

Men jag bestämde mej för att varken ge eller dra ifrån pluspoäng oavsett om det var en stylingbil eller banbil.. Oavsett om det var en tjej, kille eller chichwithdick som ägde eller körde bilen..

Utan bara helt ta bilen för vad den är..

Cool helt enkelt!

Och om jag gissar rätt.. Så är det en bil vi kommer få se mer utav.. Mycket mer..
Och då menar jag inte att den kommer uppmärksammas en massa i media pga det är en blond tjej som kör den.. Vilket det absolut kommer bli en massa utav..

Utan jag vet nästan rätt så bestämt att detta är en bil som ni kommer få se på bankörningar, träffar och alla slags event..Givetvis också på TimeAttack-Eventen. 

Det ryktas om att hon körde konbana för första gången i helgen med Evo-klubben.. och gjorde rätt så bra ifrån sej..

Så… En banbil som bara råkar vara snygg..
Precis som vi gillar det..

Sen resten.. Vad och hur man ska tycka om det.. är upp till er 😉

Ja den ser faktiskt ut precis så.. Som jag sa till Rani.. Bilden är så bra att man tror nästan det är en fejk/TV-Spels bild… Han tog det som en diss men jag menade bara att den var bra =)

Såna hade tyvärr alla behövt på sina instegslister och sidokjolar.. Varför tror folk att ALLA bilar är Pick-Ups där man måste trampa sej in på ömtåliga kolfiberlister??

Riktigt fräck..

Och här har vi ”lilla” EvoCecilia själv.. Tycker du att hon ser malplacerad ut så är du bara en mansgris 😉

Sådär i sista minuten så ska jag åka till Falkenberg.

Vad händer där då?

Jo det är TTA race på gång..

Vad vet jag om TTA serien då?

Inte det minsta… För ett par veckor sedan tog iaf. Superior första stegen mot att mediabevaka racing på högsta nivå, och då med våran vän och profil Alexander ”Alx” Danielsson som gör lite av en comeback till racingen.

Race report: Alx Danielsson – TTA & Swedish GT, Round 2 Anderstorp from Superior Media on Vimeo.

Ingen märkvärdig produktion, men väckte intresse hos många och nu vart det alltså en fortsättning för både Alx och oss själva.

Men.. Som vanligt när man är ute i sista minuten så är det svårt att fixa hotell..

Men detta tar priset.. Tydligen så är TTA riktigt lockande.. För att ALLA hotell/motel/vandrarhem är fullbokade i och runt Falkenberg..

Så det gör ju bara det hela mycket mer lovande..

I quote

TTA – Elitserien i Racing är Sveriges nya mästerskap för landets främsta racingförare. Sportslighet och prestationer kommer alltid i första rummet och alla 16 förare tävlar på lika villkor. Bara den som är snabbast kan stå överst på prispallen.

Så en sport helt i min smak, Där alla har mer eller mindre samma premisser, Eller när det kommer till motorn iallafall..

Och sen är resten upp till föraren.. Till skillnad från Formel 1..

Sen att det sägs bli upp emot 24 grader i morgon.. Och att Falkenberg under sommaren är som ett mer moget Båstad under sommaren.. Låter ju också lovande.

Och… Tyvärr så missar jag något annat som jag sett fram emot sen förra året..

För er som gillar snyggare och kanske t.o.m lägre bilar så är det i helgen dags för den 2a årliga Stance Alliance träffen.

Denna gången är det i Malmö City som träffen är.

Tydligen ska inte vädret vara lika bra här i Malmö, Så Marcus har fixat så träffen är (eller börjar) på det nya garaget på Centralstationen.

Träffen ska vara på det översta däcken så man kan njuta av ev bra väder och en härlig utsikt.

Skulle vädret bli mer än bara grått så åker man ner en våning bara.

Mer om den träffen här

Vi kommer ha löpande uppdateringar på VÅR FACEBOOK med hur det går, men i övrigt kommer all tid spenderas till olika produktioner som ska spelas in. Mer info om vad kommer!

Need a smile on your face? Love tire-smoke, partying and general fun-loving nature?

No, this is not GATEBIL but close enough as ”Danmarks Hurtigste Bil” is something definitely in the very same league!

This great event is also one of those unique ”Festival style” car events with a lot of love for tire smoke and crazy driving.

Our Norwegian virtuoso behind the camera Daniel ”O’SNAP” Hovdahl was there and captured the true essence of it, supporting his countryman Kenneth Groth who competed at the event.

Enjoy!

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VIMEO:

O’snap – DHB: Danmarks Hurtigste Bil 2012 from Daniel Hovdahl on Vimeo.

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Anyone who really digged this movie? Show your appreciation for more productions like these by ”Sharing” it and encouraging people to like the SUPERIOR FACEBOOK and naturally the same with creator Daniel ”O’SNAP” Hovdahls!

Enjoy it as much as you possibly can, this clip definitely made us make ”DHB” a must visit event next year!

We’ve gotten a lot of variety in content from all our SUPERIOR SELECTED photographers that attended GATEBIL MANTORP 2012, and within that you also get a refreshing mix of ”styles” each guy brings.

Rani ”AUTOMOTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY” Giliana certainly has that, and it was a pleasure to have him over all weekend within the team. Among many ”feature shoots” still on the editing table, these are his general samples:

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(Yellow sure is an easy color to behold,  especially when its a BMW M3 E46 that has been prepped by SS Performance who are well known for their tuning-skills on Bavarian cars. Curious to see how the Gatebil 2012 movie will hold up too…)

(Getting a totally sharp picture of a car that has been built from scratch to slide madly from side to side with lots of smoke; is easier said then done. Its even harder when your machine spends limited time on the track, as poor Olle Hällström of RAIDOPOWER MOTORSPORT was; troubleshooting his pretty unique NA-tuned LS2 powered Nissan 200SX.)

(Rich mix of car cultures indeed. This Honda S2000 with a strong lenience towards stock/OEM refined look ahead of too crazy mods; really fit our taste well- and Rani did give it a deeper shoot as well to share in the future…)

(Camp Superior guest Ragnar ”Ragge” Cederberg with his BMW E36 LS2  *big* Turbo gives the grieving ”thumbs up” after getting an ”immediate nose job” on the front. No biggie though, as he was up and running for our ”Gatebil is All in” session sunday morning!)

(Team Insane Racing and their… well… insane fleet of Corvettes running in the Extreme class were also in the ”troubleshooting mainly” part of the crowd; but this 1000+BHP Vette will be deadly when all bugs are sorted out. Will be a joy to follow inTIMEATTACK.NU!)

(Mazda MX-5 with a bit more HP then stock I would say. Anyone got the specs?)

(Yellow yellow, this time a whole team of them. All very very sharp with the Nissan Silvia S14.5 being the car picked for the Gatebil All in session by them = Something to look forward to…)

(…and for the final pic of our blogtext; this is the car that killed one of our brand new GoPro Hero II cameras we had just gotten from RAIDOPOWER MOTORSPORT. Speed kills, but it was totally worth it as the ”ride along” videos of this full carbon Supra was h o t!)

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Only one photographer to go after Rani, plus another part coming from JalleGraphics. Maybe a trailer of the video we shot to finish our ”general coverage”…?

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With just a quick appearance on saturday for our dutch friend Hjalmar ”JALLEGRAPHICS” Van Hoek, I was expecting a low dose of pics added to our already big collection of GATEBIL MANTORP 2012 coverage. I was wrong.

We have two parts coming with mostly pit action, Mantorp Park has a way of looking monotone unless you dedicate lots of time on the circuit- but I believe this will be something good ”in between”.

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(Slammed Audi A4 with stickers and a intake kit in the headlight and an intercooler —> add +25HP or something. Or is there a deeper meaning spelled A L M to this car…?)

(One of the better cars in the growing Swedish stance scene, this Honda owned by ”Bolek” also represented well at ELMIA EXPO 2012 at OIJOIJ SOCIETY.)

(More equally good Honda love, which one compared to Boleks above one is your favorite?)

(Nicklas Björck is a character in the Audi 5-cylinder scene and always brings an entourage of quirky people. Read on…)

(…there will be funny moments to show as we captured him ignore black flag 4-5 times when his front part started to hang loose during the Extreme race. Despite the reason for being flagged being pretty obvious, he was still extremely pissed about it. All caught on tape too as I said.)

(Mikael ”Wunderbaum” Svensson is good at ”blowing”, which he proudly displays on his Rockstar sponsored Nissan 200SX with LS2 V8.)

(Our buddy and Camp: Superior mainstay Daniel ”Danny the detailer” Karlsson at his part-time job as a Skyline R32 GT-R driving Ninja!)

(Team Driftmonkey had invited Luke Wilson of  ZERO MEDIA over to shoot their shit at the event. Cool to see fellow filmmakers in person, turned out to be a big RX-7 fan as well which we like!)

(The practically only car we really regret did not participate in the Gatebil All in 2012 movie we shot at the event. Good thing there were 11 (!) other sick cars that did run though…)

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Saving the second part for tomorrow, time to do some work for TIMEATTACK.NU that has its premiere in 5 short days.

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Someone who has raised his game on other fronts then pure photography, which he already had an extremely high skill set for- is Martin ”BILBILDER.SE” Persson. With new responsibilities within the SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHER team, you might see less pics of him- put hopefully seeing what he brings on many other areas/photographers. We are indeed moving forward at a far higher pace then the blog can keep up with, maybe as far as not catching up until 2013; but keep enjoying these galleries and the rich mix of different photo-styles + areas covered on events we visit! – – – – – (We see people ”backpedalling” more and more towards times where cars were built on dreams, personal character and not always sanitary business foundations. Ashamed of not exactly knowing what this is, I think we might see more and more ”hybrids” with shells from the 50’s and onwards- and I definitely don’t have a problem with that…) (I can see this pic being a highly suitable choice to show what Gatebil events are all about = Shredding tires in totally reckless style, and doing it proudly for people to enjoy. I just told you something obvious, but if you are reading these texts just move on to more interesting facts.) (Camp: Superior was busy all weekend, with a rich amount of guests and different styles of car cultures. Displayed here is crew manager Tony Wenngrens awesome Time Attack RX-7 built by us and refined by him; while Rickard Klarbys VW Golf on Rotiform wheels stays firmly slammed to the ground in the back.) (The rain was a on/off visitor the entire weekend. It gave opportunities for some interesting shots. Martins analysis of this twisty corner was ”there will be blood”; but no crashes happened… to his disappointment?) (A tribute to my bright red tan or to all the haters who keep inspiring us to stick to ”doing sh*t our own way” and not being too kind of their sore little toes? Nah, just a ”moment” and nothing more.) (Unless entirely mistaken, the car in the background was one of the wildest driving drifters all weekend; and with the ugliest behind on a Nissan 200SX I have ever seen. Not that it matters, when its usually covered in thick clouds of burnt tire smoke. We can confirm this dude as one of the Gatebil All in 2012 participants as well…) (David Johansson and Rani Giliana dancing while a cringing myself looks on with a bottle of beer filled with… water. This pic needs no further explanation.) (The fastest car of the weekend if you believe in Gatebil Extreme races as a way to measure. We made sure to do a more in-depth shoot of it as well, as some hipsters have said for a while wide body Porsches are in hot trend.

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HENRIK OULIE MEDIA, the young man that took the free-styling role in our group of SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHERS at GATEBIL MANTORP 2012 gives us Part II of his ”just having fun” sessions.

Decent amount of people, life in pits and of course some cars. Enjoy and check out OUR FACEBOOK for the general spamming of cool pics and requests for ”Likes” we all appreciate!

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(… … … speechless. Not that Christoffer Geiros Audi A4 that was in our camp all weekend is hard to make look good but… … this is epic.)

(Me be very good automotive journalist, me do great pics many people press ”Like” on with my iPhone. True story bro.)

(Compare the above with this Irish chap. Who is the pro and who is the amateur? Clearly its this Irish fellow who could use a tip or two from a veteran in the automotive media scene. I was trying to give him pointers all weekend on how to improve his results, and HIS COVERAGE (PART ONE – – TWO – – THREE) turned out decent IMO.

All kidding aside, we really appreciated having this full-bloodied pro staying with us for the full weekend. We were even kind enough to not rib him about the Irish goalkeeper Shay Givens efforts in the Euro cup…)

(On to some cars! This is a small package with a big heart, just like owner Mikael ”Diket” Borggren. They both combined pack a damn heavy punch, and he effortlessly placed second in the Extreme race despite not running on pure slicks like the rest. Can we see the destruction of norwegians at Rudskogen…?)

(Team Yellow doing what they do best in their mad Silvia S14.5 build that only sports the best bits directly from Japan. We will see them do a lot of this in our upcoming Gatebil is ALL IN 2012 movie coming… somewhere in the future.)

(…we take a short break to inspect the pit crew; hard at work.)

(This Cobra V12 which is also supercharged was FEATURED BY US last summer, and got crazy attention as usual.)

(And here is the owner, builder and general car building genius Magnus Jinstrand which has done 100% of the work on the above Cobra V12. Here inspecting a fellow friends car, which in hindsight we should have taken a closer look at…)

(Looks like Photographer Camilla from Norway had better luck to get a piece of Daniel ”Limmet” Liimatainens BMW 1-series for a feature then we were! Daniel or crew, if you are reading this; ”no soup for you next time!”.)

(…meanwhile the pit crew are still at hard work at the track.)

(We had to take out the old Skyline DR30 on the track after hours, since its so fast… nah, not even the biggest imbecile would buy that. We just let Nils Gunnarsson take some cool pics of it!)

(The Simpsons have Disco Stu, but we trump that with Disco ”Danny the detailer” who was shaking things up friday evening in the Superior Camp!)

(Apart from obviously being an Ove Harlem loyal customer with his DC gear, he took ”being bling” to a whole other level with the four Audi rings gloriously hanging from his neck…)

(Fellow Superior Camp members Ragnar aka ”Ragge” and Calle Linnarsson looking a bit akward fixing up the BMW E36 with LS2 twin-turbo engine transplant. Great guys who might become more then just guest of our camp in the future…)

(Final pic is a classic ”live in the pits” one, its a big part of Gatebil events to mingle around and taking a closer look at the sick cars that just tore up the track. Kai Roger Bakken anyone?)

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Great coverage by Mr. Ouuuulie, who has a bright future in our team- as long as he gets some proper sleep before the events! 😉

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