The So Cal Viper Club headed back to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana to run the annual

Car Control Clinic for the members.  This year we brought in Naoki Kobayashi from Drift 101

and Megan Racing to work with our members in the art of car control through drifting.

It was a very warm day and the tire rubber was certainly burning.  

This is a labor intensive event and a HUGE Thank You to Scott Hirko, Ben Kawata, Randy Tribolet,

Matthew Gross, Anthony Matranga and Eddie Arguelles for spending Friday out in the sun setting up

the Auto-x course.   On Saturday, even more help came from our great members to help set up

and avery special Thank you to Jordyn and Kaci for sitting at the timing table keeping track of all the

Auto-x times.

It was a very hectic day for Scott and I.  I managed to take a few pictures and Scott took quite a few.

Here are the small handful that I took.

Here is a link to Scott's pictures   http://www.hirkophoto.com/p676930690

Morning driver's meeting

Naoki and a badly shredded tire

This is what happens to old tires when you b urn rubber with a Viper !

Diane in the Drift 101 car

John and Ace getting some driving instructions from one of the Drift instructors

Matthew smokin' some tire

Staged and ready to roll

Fast Eddie

Randy

Cutting it close to the cone

Bruce

Ben

Justin

Randy was so excited to break the 1:00 mark in a stock Gen 1.   Trust me when I say, this is a

GREAT time on old stock tires.   Great driving Randy.  It took me 5 tries to break the minute

and I helped set up the track !

Celebration

Paul in his sweet ACR vert

Demoe

Dylan

Eddie

Jerry

Matthew

Brent

Jeff

Raj

Jerry

Jeff and his dad, Herb

Hirk

Randy

Jay

Patsy and Ron

Nino

Ken

Rolf

Paolo and Albert

Jim

Patsy

Matthew

Andy and Bruce

Gail & Phillipe

John

The Drift guys tried to beat the Viper times

Suzanne and Amanda

Randy and Mike

Mike, Eric and Dan

The Auto-x winners