After hanging at the drift event all day, and still less than 24 hours since hanging out with Diplo and Matthew Johnson in Denver the night before, I was pretty wrecked. ACP headed to dinner with the Drift Alliance crew and NOS Energy crew. [Note that, Andrew Comrie-Picard at the drift event…] and Chrissie Beavis and Tall Tom and I hit up the Greek Diner with one of those all-you-can-read menus with [like] 15 pages of food in it.
Eventually, and I am not sure how, it was decided that we were going to meet Tanner Foust at K1 Speed in Irvine for a little showdown. I am all in favor of karting, but Tanner—he'd just raced 18 head-to-head heats in Formula D's Streets of Long Beach, and he wanted to come out to K1. Waiting for Tanner to arrive gave Chrissie, Tom, and me a chance to pound a Rockstar to try to harness some of that red-mist we'd need to take on Tanner.
It wasn't long after Tanner arrived that we discovered that he'd just done a 150 lap endurance race just days early, at the same track. Prepared to get my ass kicked, I took a backseat and tried to shoot some pictures and video. Neither really worked; in fact, it totally screwed my lap times. Ultimately Tanner was able to beat my best lap by between 2 and 3 tenths of a second, and the most impressive moment was Tanner doing a little kart drifting while I double fisted the video camera and the steering wheel behind him—I also dropped my video camera.
Check out the pics from the night and check out K1 Speed's electric karts with 5 locations in Cali and one in Seatle, I am going back.
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Tanner Foust was allowed first pick of karts. Naturally he chose 34.
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Chrissie reminds us that racing at K1 is clean.
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It all comes down to seat time, and while it's true that the only time I was ever ahead of Tanner was just before he passed me, my fastest laps were only two-tenths from his fastest. I'm probably faster at other things—like typing.
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Tanner Foust…probably drifted an on-ramp during his drive home.
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Bill Lockwood
Having worked in snow and skate for years, Bill Lockwood will defend Rally as an "action sport" to the bitter end. He now spends his time blogging for ESPN and shooting Rally events while (literally) dodging the cars as they fly, skid or cartwheel past.
