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GRIDLIFE South: Road Atlanta Part 3

GRIDLIFE South had a lot going on so we had 3 different photographers shooting the event. So far part one and two has consisted solely of Greg Szoda’s photos. Part 3 and 4 will be photos provided by Clayton Hooker.

Like I had written earlier: this Honda Odyssey is part of Honda Racing R&D from Alabama. They also brought an Acura MD-X out to the event that was really making some impressive moves on the track at Road Atlanta.

The crazy S2000 powered BMW 2002 that was in Part 1 of our GRIDLIFE South coverage.

EVO with the GRIDLIFE livery.

Joey Lee of the Chronicles shooting photos trackside.

Chris Forsberg’s Infinity tandem drifting with Von Gittin Jr.

This car came from Chicago to drift at Road Atlanta.

Bumper down. 🙁

Another Chicago Area dude drifting

 Risky Devil BMW getting sideways.

This Subaru is RWD and setup for drifting. Pretty unique.

    Andrew WK showed up to show everyone how to party. Can confirm – he parties hard. He know how to put on a good show.

A wild Frank Downstar Garcia appeared.

SouthrnFresh ran the Car Show on saturday.

R33 Skylines are still a rare site compared to the R-32 which has gotten popular since it is in the 20 year old age limit for importing them to the US.

Johnny Salami’s honda S2000

  Front end of the R33.

Johnny Salami’s S2k’s from.

S13 Babe’s silvia.

The track was hot and REALLY hot. The humidity had to be 90%

HONNNNNDA PRO JASON

Cody Loveland of LoveFAB built this crazy monster to race on Pike’s Peak. Enviate Hypercar. Look it up.

Nick Swann doing his thing running the drifting portion of the event.

Damn Dorito Cars lining up to do some doritoing.

 Wakaflocka was there and got everyone hype as fuck.

                      GRIDLIFE South: Road Atlanta Part 3 was originally published on The Laced Life

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GRIDLIFE midwest recap video

GRIDLIFE midwest was a blast. This weekend was so much fun. Don’t miss GRIDLIFE South or Midwest. Thanks to everyone who made the weekend awesome!

GRIDLIFE midwest recap video was originally published on The Laced Life

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GRIDLIFE Midwest 2016 Coverage

This is the third year that GRIDLIFE midwest took over the sleepy track in Michigan call Gingerman raceway. If you’ve never been to GingerMan, it is magical place that has a really interesting origin story. A story that bares repeating. There is a bar owned by a Daniel Schnitta in Chicago. It is an old school establishment with a lot of charm. That charm wasn’t lost on Martin Scorsese, who decided to shoot scenes for the movie “The Color of Money” staring Paul Newman at Daniel Schnitta’s bar. That bar is called the GingerMan.

After the movie came out, the GingerMan became a local hot spot in that neighborhood in Chicago. Daniel, the owner, also had a love for fast cars. He bought land out side of South Haven, Michigan to create the GingerMan Raceway. The people at GRIDLIFE had the same love for cars, racing and ginger man. GRIDLIFE was born to bring people, road racing, and music together.

We were at the midwest event last year where the weather was pretty bad- the event still had a great turn out though. This year the weather was hot and sunny so we were sure that GRIDLIFE Midwest 2016 was intense.

 Cars on the grid for time attack at GRIDLIFE Midwest 2016

 A track prepped Acura Integra about to go out.

 The atmosphere in the pits is pretty awesome. People working to get their cars fixed and people are usually more than willing to help out.

  Merica

 Big wings and lite wheels

 VIBRANT Performance came down from America’s hat aka Canada. They brought with them this little go-kart on steroids. This is a Honda CR-X with a S2000 motor, trans and turbo setup. It also has a gnarly cantilever suspension. Aaron Weir is the mad man who built it. He was cool and answered a million questions that people had about it. Shout out to Art at VIBRANT too.

Here is the engine bay.

Speaking of weird go-kart like contraptions with Honda swaps..

 This is a K swapped Miata. The K20 from a RSX swapped into a Miata. Pretty awesome.

 There was a really diverse group of cars. Some show cars, race cars, drift cars, and stuff that doesn’t fit into either category.

 Some EF love

 It was nice to see some 240s doing some racing instead of the usual drifting.

    TF-Works was there with their crew

This Miata has a diesel engine in it. No joke.

 Absolutely nasty Datsun 510 with a GM swap.

 HOONIGAN showed up to do bad things with their friends.

 This Silvia Spec R was there getting wild during the drifting.

 Risky Devil was out their doing some hotboy shit

 Ryan Tuerck was getting sideways too. There were a lot of well known people representing at GRIDLIFE.

 One of the other nice parts about the event is that South Haven, Michigan gets swamped with cool cars from the event.

A few other car events have tried to add music and a stage to their line up at night but I don’t think they come any where close to touching GRIDLIFE’s concerts after dusk. The light show and sound system were amazing.

Cody Loveland of LoveFAB built this absolutely insane car he cars the Enviate Hyper car. It is a 1000hp twin turbo V8 made to run the Pike’s Peak Hill climb. This is the first time it was at an event with the body panels on.

  GRIDLIFE midwest was an amazing event that you don’t want to miss next year. GRIDLIFE is also doing a big event down south in ATL as well as several smaller events in the Midwest.

Check out http://www.grid.life for more information or their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/tothegrid/

GRIDLIFE Midwest 2016 Coverage was originally published on The Laced Life

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Gridlife 2016

Gingerman Raceway

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4AM - 5 hour drive to Gingerman for Gridlife