A bit late, but better late then never.

Just a small update, on DMCC, round 1 having been completed the results have been posted. A couple of surprises for me to say the least, but Drift Posse 1st of all Qualified well, Pat qualifying in 2nd place, but the big surprise for me being Bradly Carlton pulling off a 1st place qualifying position shocking I bet quite a few people.

As for competition the top 5 came out like this.

1st:Marc Landreville
2nd:Matt Waldin
3rd:Bradley Carlton
4th:David Briggs
5th:Pat Cyr

Unfortunately Pat ended up having an issue with his throttle cable, but a solid finish overall for a car with a new engine, hopefully the bugs are worked out with the car by The time round 2 rolls along.

A minor update for me, New watermark has been made, getting good feedback with it and I have finally mocked up a card design, hopping to get it made soon.

~Andrew Gregg~

The Beast Lives

Small little post, sadly last week during the Shannonville run, Pat was experiencing fuel delivery issues and the car was getting starved for fuel, it sounded to me like it was most noticeable at high RPMs. Thankfully, all seems to be settled now and the beast is running, I'm praying to see it in action.

CYRIOUS PRODUCTIONS - THE BEAST AWAKENS from Cyrious Productions on Vimeo.

It's (needless to say) a Toyota AE86 coupe, running a turbo F20C (Honda s2000 engine) putting out 300whp.

~Andrew Gregg~

DriftStream & Slide America

Quick little mention, for all drift fans checking this out might wanna scope out a couple of things that I"ve been watching while updating things on here, one being the Formula D DriftStream, featuring live coverage of Formula D for it's entire span of event. You can watch at, http://www.livestream.com/formulad It covers the live event as well as has the the events saved for later viewing. The Next live feed is June 4-5.

As well as Slide America an approximately an Hour and 40minute DVD covering grassroots drifting in the United States, you can pick it up from the site above for $9.99 USD and is definitely worth the purchase. A short trailer for you all, enjoy.

Slide America Trailer. from Andy Sapp on Vimeo.

~Andrew Gregg~

Gumball 3000 at Shannonville

Last Thursday the Gumball Rally hit up Shannonville and Toronto, Pat Cyr from Drift Posse was nice enough to give me a lift out for some DMCC car testing and to scope out some rare cars.

Another Toyota MarkII, pretty sure it's the same one that was being sold at DMCC last year.


Sadly not to much was going on, DMCC drivers were working out the kinks of their cars, sadly Pats car was really not looking good, it was being staved of fuel so he wasn't gonna risk the car by running it, it's thankfully been sorted out since then.

Brad Carlton rocking his much cleaner looking 240sx, seems to be running considerably better then in '09 hoping he does well and establishes himself a good place at DMCC this year.


The shooting conditions were less then great, it was very windy that day and just made shooting overall a hassle, the drifters stayed quite late and then DMCC guys took us all out for dinner, went and chilled at Kelsey's, had some good food, good laughs and overall was a great night. even though we got home quite late.

Peter Chrisikopoulos rocking his Silvia through the last turn of Shannonville, loving the colour and volume hes getting out of this machine.


Tania Bourbonnais working out the kinks in her Pontiac GTO (Rhys Millens old car before it was sold to her) hoping she does well this year at DMCC.


Unfortinately I'm not sure who this is, quite like the car though, a JDM Toyota Soarer, hoping I can find out the owner since I'd like to get a shoot with him, or the guy with the silver Soarer. (photo below)


A lovely pair of JDM Toyotas.


A car that needs absolutely no introduction, but if you are not aware, this is a Bugatti Veyron, its worth more then everything you own most likely


Another highly expensive machine, this being the Lamborghini Murciélago SV.


As usual check out my flickr for higher res photos as well as more photos from this set and more.

~Andrew Gregg~

Toronto International Autoshow

Overall I gotta say I was fairly disappointed with the autoshow this year nothing blew me away, got to see a few interesting things, but nothing that overall wowed me with the exception of a Ferrari 599XX, but couldn't get any solid photos of it based on its position.

A very nice concept I liked very much, I don't believe it had a model name but I can see it being the successor to the current G37 down the line if made.


There was a few interesting concepts lurking around, the Infiniti above blew me away more then any, but there was a some cool stuff from Ford, Lexus, Honda and more. Unfortunately not as much interesting as in 2009.

An interesting car from Lexus, that was recently seem undergoing road testing. Personally a nice car I'd say, but seems to be something that should be coming from Toyota and not from Lexus, but an interesting car none the less.


Was disapointed that "Red Zone" wasn't there this year where they had some more unqiue things from some drift and some imports, but ya was taken out this year sadly.

A shot of a Ferrari California and the 599XX, sadly from this angle as you can see the California was blocking the 599, and there was a pillar directly in front of it so, this was near the only chance for a shot. Even asked if I could go in the sectioned off area for photos but understandably I couldn't.


A cool thing I wasn't expecting was a Shelby display with pretty much every car the lengendary man was involved with, was a great chance to see alot of automotive history.

My favorite version of the McLaren SLR, even love it in roadster form, typically something that I don't really go for. Very much looking forward to the new cars from each of these companies the SLS from Benz and the MC4-12C from McLaren.


The successor to the SLR, and Benz developed SLS AMG, parts about it visually I prefer to the SLR but also prefer the SLR in the rear.


Quite like this photo, and an absolutely beautiful car. My favorite Maserati without question


Adore the lighting on this photo, on one of my favorite cars in the world.


Was certainly not expecting to see one of these, let alone 2, the true Ferrari slayer. A little back story for those not in the know. This is a Ford GT40, back in the 60's Ford was planning on purchasing Ferrari, Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari founder and owner) had agreed to the deal but at the last second Enzo pulled out of the deal insulting Henry Ford. Ford decided it was time to go to war, and would take the war to Le Mans, where Ferrari was the force to beat. after some trial and error with the car, 2 years after it came out it took the 1966 Le Mans victory, and then subsequently took victories in '67, '68 and '69 insulting Ferrari. The car even managed at least 1 1st, 2nd, 3rd place finish. Easily one of the most famous race cars in the history of motorsports and certainly made it mark is history.


Never been a big fan of side profile shots, but this came out quite well, wasn't expecting much from the photo. This is an MK4 GT40, the last iteration of the car before it was discontinued.

As usual check out my flickr for higher res photos as well as more photos from this set and more.

~Andrew Gregg~

This was the last shoot of the year, was a spur of the moment shoot was, shall we say an interesting day with some drifting a bit of an encounter with security, a near encounter with the front of a bus, and people in a hotel most likely thinking there was a shoot out going on hearing a 240 backfiring.

A near stock minty 240 coupe owned by a buddy of mine, sure its going to look great when hes finished with it if he keeps it.


Unfortunately we had a near accident on the way to the shooting location, going up to Downsview park the 240 I was in lost traction going through an intersection in the rain and jumped the sideway high median and went into the oncoming lane with about 7 cars and a bus coming at us, thankfully timing was on our side and we were far enough away from anything and ther was no damage to the car shockingly.

The lighting in this pic is a lil awkward but still a nice pic with a nice background

After Hitting DV park and getting harassed by security we went to a ditched garage for some different setting, its the same place I had gone for my Honda shoot a few months before not same garage but same area.

So ya, I uhh....I really dunno what to say about this picture, its a 240, its a WIP by the owner but ya, owner is enthusiastic about his car the scene and looking to see what comes out of it.


Buddy with the 240 above seemed to be quite enthusiastic about taking pics, hell at one point he ended up taking the camera for his own pictures.

I'm not a big 240 fan but pretty much love everything about his car, from the look to how it fires of flames from the exhaust.


Nice day thought to chill, meet some new people fuck around and have fun, and get some good pictures. A good way to end the season.

Little bit of recreational oversteer to close off the night.


As usual check out my flickr for higher res photos as well as more photos from this set and more.

~Andrew Gregg~

2009 Recap, Forza Motorsport Autocross

Not to much to say about this event, was a promotional event for Forza Motorsport 3 they held an autocross at Exhibition grounds, can't say it was a terribly exciting day, tried to get some contacts for future shoots, but that failed miserably, need to get some cards to hand out but oh well.

Love this photo since it gives such a clear look at the metallic elements in the paint and its something rarely seem so close, wish I had used manual focus though, but oh well.


Got to see some interesting things though running stuff you would rarely see otherwise there was an old lotus, some shocking stuff like a wicked fast Subaru Legacy, some rally cars (including a rally legend) and more, sadly no exotics other then the little car show they had but not actively running in autocross.

This was intresting to see, yes before it's asked this is a real Viper I had asked, I wish I had hung around long enough to see the end result but had other things to attend to that day so couldn't.


Had my buddy with my GS300 come down was actually trying to coax him into running it and nearly did but in the end figured it was to big and heavy unfortunate would of liked to seem him try and rip it.

My favorite version of the Viper just wish it was in the blue with white stripes but oh well.


The rally legend I mentioned before, unfortunately its not the top spec rally Quattro but still a very nice find and a landmark car like this since things like the Impreza, Evos and the GTR Skylines as most know them most likely would not of existed without this car being made.


The 1st and thus far only GTR I've seen "out in the wild" still looking for one for a photoshoot but thus far that hasn't gone to good but we'll see what happens


As usual check out my flickr for higher res photos as well as more photos from this set and more.

~Andrew Gregg~