Gymkhana Grid – The Videos

So as well as the pictures of the racing and the pictures of the Mass Appeal show at the Gymkhana Grid Invitational, I can’t really leave out the videos!

First up is the final battle between Ken Block and Tanner Foust for the AWD final competition. You can’t deny Foust the win after watching his inch perfect driving skills! Skip to about 1:14 to ignore the random DC advert bit.

Next up is the RWD class final between Dai Yoshihara in his S13 and John Russakoff in his AE86 Corolla. Good to see two relatively old cars (S13′s are kinda retro now right?) in the finals! The sound of these two cars is about 100x better than the Fiesta’s in the above video. It’s a shame Russakoff had a few troubles because he was doing really well but Dai’s driving was spot on for a well deserved win.

My favourite video is the Matt Powers vs Alex Pfeiffer RWD battle. Matt Powers took the win in his S14 with some nice driving but its Pfeiffers ridiculous smoke trails from the rear tyres of his big Lexus that last from the beginning to the end of the race that makes it brilliant to watch. The commentator has it right when he says Pfeiffer is driving a tugboat!

Burnouts are very silly but very fun and this is Michael Essa killing some tyres in a very dramatic fashion for the burnout competition win. Not good for climate change but very good for the laughter!

Talking of climate change, Kevin Abbring came all the way from Holland in his Bio-methanol powered Datsun 350Z. Although I think all his good environmental efforts are voided by the amount of burnt rubber he laid down around his whole team!