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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rallim" data-source="post: 1286007" data-attributes="member: 15366">Well, couple events on the new pretty much complete front end setup done now. Had one test day, however it was raining. Did my first competition this past saturday, and I'm both really pleased and really annoyed with how it went. The car had a stupid amount of grip since it ended up being really warm and I was on basically brand new tires all around, I was basically able to full throttle the entire course minus transitions.So, practice I get used to the dry and the huge amount of grip and feel comfortable. Move on to qualifying, first run was shit, I think I took out a couple cones running wide coming off the bank. Second run felt alright, I felt it could have been better though. Went to watch a few friends qualify and left the car alone in the pits. Come back, front tires flat, find a big hole in the tread where air was audibly coming out. ****.Drivers meeting gets called with the qualifying results, I'm expecting somewhere in the middle since I wasn't too happy with my run. Qualified 2nd in my first competition ever. I'm *##&ing blown away. Anyways, had family there cheering me on and one of them ran the tire to discount to try and get it patched since I still had to drive obviously. Friend lent me his Cobra wheels with BRAND NEW tires on them, sweet. Since there was 29? qualifyers, and I qualified 2nd, I end up getting a bye run from 32 straight to top 16. Did the run on the cobra wheels, felt pretty good surprisingly considering they still had the adhesive from the stickers on them. Get a call that they can't fix my tire, well oh well. Oh, did I mention I also found a gash along the side wall where it was just barely cutting into the K-Member? Yeah. Top 16, I'm against a pretty good driver, but I'm feeling confident. First run, made a correction but felt pretty solid otherwise. Second run, I honestly feel like it was one of the best runs I have EVER put down, super high on the bank, nailed the clipping points, pretty much full lock through the course..... aaaand I feel the tire catch as I go to transition into the last corner, hop, hop, BANG. Tire caught so hard in the K-Member it actually ripped a hole into the side of it. I gave my buddy two of my gold wheels as compensation, still amazingly kind of him to even do that knowing it might have happened after seeing the cuts on the other tire.Ended up getting knocked out because of this, and I was pissed because of how good it felt. Still, not too mad because I feel for my first time doing competition I did amazingly well, beat my own expectations. So, plan currently is just to get some smaller tires, and notch out the k member so I shouldn't have any more problems. Other then that the car performed flawless and I've got a good feel for it now and I'm super excited for the next round.Here's some pics guys!<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10369906_313592835459835_1573201111946638762_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/1510926_462633247172315_9187350876112066980_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10295787_779250265433483_4692553956427573095_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5534/14023559779_38d9abeeae_b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Oh yeah, by the way if you guys didn't notice, I got invited to join a team. There's currently 6 of us, all local Mustang drifters. Started up a facebook page if you guys want to follow us. Three fox's, three SN's. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DriftRebels1" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/DriftRebels1</a></blockquote>