Life Of A Street Racer 2

Now i have told about my drift experience. And some about my street racing. Well lets just say with a new town comes new challenges. After I moved here I started looking for new racers to test my skills against. I told you of my first race here on my last post but here is more on the racing i have not told you about. After i beat the honda stuff started moving fast for me. It seemed like every time i got out im my car some one new wanted to try me. And i never back down from a good race. Like when i first drove over here and i followed my dad. me and him got into one on the final 6 miles home. I remember it all to well. Mostly because I caught air comming off a bridge going i dont know how fast. But time to reflect on closer races. I had one right before july 4th that was fun. and guy in a 240sx had been following me for a long time. then when we pulled down onto the road i live on wich is on the other side of a one lane tunnel. i stoped and he came up beside me and said let me race that beast. i could tell he was going to be cocky as most racers are. The car he was driving looked nice. It had a full body kit, 17' wheels a carbon fiber wing roof scoop. tons of body mods but none to the motor. So i tell him to follow me. so he does till i come up to what i call the test course were i test run my car. But its accualy just a realy curvy road with pleanty of bums and stuff. He honks his horn 3 times and we take off. I take a quik lead on him. but he stays with me untill around turn 5. when his rear end comes around on him and he hits the ditch. Opon seeing this I wip the car around in the road and head back towards him. i get there and he is just sitting in the car with a red face cusing up a storm. I help him out of the car and we inspect the damage. The whole rear end of the car was smashed. it was no longer driveble. Then he cracked a joke. he said. DANG if i could of kept her on the road i could of had you. then he smiled and said. when i get this thing fixed look out cause i will be looking for another race. the only thing i had to say was your on. and we left it at that.

how i got started in the drifting world.

it started when i got my license. i would go over to a gravel back road down by watauga lake. and practice drifting around the gravel turn which is hard to do concidering if you mess up you will either go off into a ditch or you will slide off the bank into the water below. After i felt like i had mastered that. i took to drifting backroads all along johnson county. my favorite being copper head road. yes the same one in the song. after that i was comming home from daniels house and decided to try forge creek. So i came out of daniels road and redlined at 6000rpm in first gear. shifted to second and chirped my tires. Then i redlined at 6000rpm once again. Shifted rpms droped to 4500rpms. i was now at the first turn. So i turn outwards then downshift to second while turning inwards sharply. rpms hit 7500 and i feel the drift start. so i feather the gas as i go around the turn. once i was through the turn i kicked her into a strait line and started up the hill towards the biggest and most dangerous turn. Opon topping the hill. i am running in 4th gear at 3500rpm i then turn outwards downshift to third and turn in hard. motor running at 6500rpms. once the drift was started i aplyed some counter stear making sure not to over do it or i would hit the gard rail. about half way down the hill i started to get to close to the rail so i let off the gas for a sec and taped the brake the aplied the gas. again. this alowed me to pull away from the rail enough so i could make it down the himm while keeping the drift. once off the hill i slowed my car down and pulled off to the side of the road and got out of the car to inspect the hill that i had just came down. I was tempted to do it again but i said better not push my luck tonight. so after that i just drove on home. the next night i was at work and it was raining so the parking lot was slick. so after we closed i decided to have some fun while the others took a smoke break. i got in my car and proceeded to drift around the parking lot. after that i was always looking for the next rain so i could practice more. a time came were i was heading home from daniels and i was speeding as i usualy do at night. i came around a turn and a car passed me and put its breaks on. then i saw blue lights. Automaticly I drop it down to third and take off like a bulit. Then I turn off my lights and find a back road to go down. At the same time i pull down the back road the cop sees the reflector on the rear of my car so he too cuts down the road. Here i am driving no lights going around 65 70mph on a curvy road. trying my best to keep a few turns ahead of the cop. Once i got to the end of the road i turned around to see if i could double back and see if i could shake him So i turn my lights back on and drive the speedlimit back his direction. And watch as he passes me. I pull into a person drive way and turn off the car just in case he came back. i waited there for arounf 10min before i took back off and went home. So months passed and i just kept getting better and better at it. then came a big snow and i had just got my car fixed. and i was at work. there was a foot of snow on the ground on we decided to close the store early because of the snow. i was chosen to take some of the workers home because they knew i could drive in it better than most. But at the same time i was happy cause i got to drift in the snow while taking them home. it was very fun. after that snow fall my car was messed up again. i had rupsured a linkage on my split drive shaft. it took about three weeks to get it road worthy again. then a few months passed and i was growing tired of mountain city cause there was nothing there for me exept friends. My dad offered to let me live with him over here in marion nc. So i jumped at the chance to out of mountain city. Sure it was hard to do but it had to be done. Just a few days after i had moved in. i was out roming the town getting to know my surroundings. When a honda civic pulls up beside me at a red light and the dude starts to talk trash about my car. So i said to him. Why dont you put your motor were your mouth is. I bet you $50 i will kill that honda. Your on he said. So i sit there waiting for the light to turn green and he is reving the engine putting on a big show. And i just sit there with a grin on my face. Then boom the light turns and i take off burning rubber. He kept with me till i hit 3rd then i was gone. I got stoped at a red and he pulled up beside me and said. Quote: DAMN BOY THAT THING IS QUICK. He then asked me to go to the walmart parking lot. So i go to walmart and park beside him. We get out off our cars and he came over to me and shook my hand. Then handed me $50 and said you earned it. We stood there and talked for about an hour when he said. How about you come to the track this weekend and race. I asked what type of race. he replied circut and drift. I accepted the invite. the next thing i know i was at the track and was being put up against mustangs, camaros, civics, 240sx,s and others. i was the only one driving a 29 year old car. I ran the circut and came in third. then we switched over to freestyle drift. So as i was running. i was not aware there was some people in the stands looking for talent. After i was done and was sitting in the pits. a guys comes up to me and says. I want you to drive in a event on the 1st of july here. i asked what type. and he said you will have a chance to get into FormulaD if you win. So i accepted. The first comes around and i go to the track. There were 2 races going on that day and in order to compete in the drifting i also had to compete in the circut race. I won the circut event then came the drifting. and i made it to the final round. and that is were i learned that the guy i would be racing was no rookie. It was Sam Hubinet from the FormulaD series. I knew i was in trouble when i saw him pull up beside me. He was driving a new charger pushing 560hp. First heat he was the lead car and i was having trouble keeping up with him. Then came the second heat were i was the leader. As much as i tried i could not pull away from him. Then came the results of the race. Sam had beat me by alot. But after all was said and done he came up to me and said. You have to be the best rookie i have ever drove with. Sorry you did not make it. but i look forward to racing you next year. With that he left. Since then i have been invited to some races. And that is how i have been paying to maintain my car. I have placed bets with every person i have raced since then. and made alot off that. but that is how i got into the drift scene.

family

Family is a important thing in life. many people know this in life even i do. but let me ask you this what is family. there is many different types of family the good type thats all ways there for you and the bad type that you think cares for you but when something happens to you or someone you love and care for they turn and run. I have found that this is something that appears alot in life if you study the world around you. myself i have both types of family in my life. but what do you concider family. i concider my friends, and relatives family. most of them are all ways there for me when i need them, but there are some of them that dont give a crap what happens to me. But here recently i found out what true family is. My father and his girlfriend. saw that i was under alot of stress and lossing weight fast. My nerves were bad and i felt like i was at rock bottom. sure i had friends to hang out with and my mother, but i still felt like something was missing in my life. i was missing happynes. and about a week ago i asked my father to take me in. i was willing to quit my job and start over. my father said come on. so that day i got on the phone and told my mom i was moving out. what confused me was she was not upset or any thing like that. That struck me as odd, at the time but then i got to thinking how much she was not around any more. i never got to spend any time with her. and the only time she was around was on payday. so that made me think all she wanted me around for was money, but money was hard to come by concidering because of her my bank account ran dry. so im glad to be moved out of the house. i feel beter about my self even if i am uneployed now. but it gives me time to think about things for awhile and get my mind together. but back to the family thing. family is people that love you and will help you in any way they can. so family for me goes past blood for me. it runs into my best friendships. and they are true friends. thats really all i have to say for now.

A New Start

this blog goes out to all my friends. as of today i have moved out of TN and in to NC. i am living with my father. the reason i done this is for a few reasons. the first reason is i felt like i was restricted from doing the things i wish to do in life. as in going to collage to further my education. or getting a good job. Mcds is a good job for some one that is still in school and dont have nothing better to do. i have worked at Mcds for 2 years now and its not a real job. A real job is something were you have to move hevy objects, or any thing else that you have to use your muscles to do i learnd that yesterday. and my body has never hurt this much, but i feel good about what i have done. now i know what i must do in life to get what i want. i must get my hands dirty and really push my body to the limits. Another thing my mother was preventing from being truley happy. she was always nagging my head off about her problems. and couldnt talk about mine. and i had alot of them in Mountain City. i had no money cause my mother took most of it so she could pay bills but it left me with very little money. even though we was keeping the bills payed i felt like i was letting money get the best of me. i realy dont care about money it just causes so many problems any more. i am now unenployed because of the move but i dont mind cause it lets me relax and clear my head. But i am looking for a new job as of now but i may be awhile till i get one. but i have a loving family here and im ready to start my life over in a new town. so i can make new friends and have new oppertunitys. but i will not forget my other friends cause they are all like brothers and sisters to me. i love them all. so daniel, cory, maria, gary, sean, and every one else i know and love dont think i will abandon you cause i wont i am always a phone call away.

life of a street racer

what can i say i like to street race. i have been doing it for a while now. sure its ilegal. and can get me put in jail. but ill take the chance. i remember my first race it was against a handa civic. it started off and i thought i was going to loose. but after the handa hit 3rd gear i started catching up with him fast. then i hit fourth gear at 5,000rpms and slung by him like he was sitting still. it was such a great feeling and a good adrinalin rush. after my first race i started to push my car to the limit and finaly became one with the car. about a month later word was spreading fast that i was the one who had to be beat at his own game so the people started coming at me like crazy. they all wanted a peice of me. i started geting a name for my self on the streets. then i dissaperd for awhile. well i really didnt disaper i started being a shadow racer. i would come up behind unsuspecting racers with my lights off then turn them on right when i got right beside them on the road. but i would only keep the on until i went around a turn then i would vanish into the night. word spread quik about the mysterious shadow car. then one night while i was coming up on a car with my lights off i got reall close and saw a light bar on top of the car. and about the time i saw this a car whent by on the other side of the road and the cop spoted me. luckley i was coming up on a back road i knew well so. the second the cop turned on the lights i darted down a back road with pedal to the medal. i watch in the rear view as the cop tried to catch me but after i came around a certan turn i pulled into a drive was and turned the car off. and i watched as the cop went by. i waited about an hour before i took off again. and i made it home safe. that was my closest call ever. now i have calmed down some. but i still race from time to time just to have some fun. but hey im still waiting for the day some one can beat me on the local touge.

what can i say

lets just say im hating my life right now. today i was having a really good day for once. that dont happen very often any more. here is how my day went today. i woke up as i do every day cause if i didnt wake up i would be dead. even though i bet death would be kind of cool. ok back on subject. after i woke up i went into the living room to listen to my mother gossip as she does every time i see her. even though i hate to listen to it. THANK GOD FOR INTERNET!!! thats the only way i can zone her out and keep a sain mind..... well a half sain mind cause i am a little insain if you ask my freinds. ate myself some food. then got on the computer for about an hour. then i looked at the clock and there was one hour till work so i got ready and left. but i didnt go strait there. i stoped by auto zone to pick up some car paint for my car. there went $76.00 down the drain oh well its the price you pay when restoring a car. after i got done at auto zone i went to work. i clock in and they put me on fried pruducts. i dont mind that too much concidering they depend on me more than any one else there any way. i have been there longer than all the other employies. i still dont see why im not the manager yet. ill get my time in the spot light. after about an hour on fries they put me on table wich i cant stand table cause its just too crazy to work on. i really prefer the grill over any thing else there because i am unmatched when it comes to cooking on it. they kept me on table for about a hour in a half. then they put me on front counter to take orders. that i dont mind cause i love holding money. of course i havent met a person in this world who dont so thats cool. i stayed there until i went on break. i went to burger king to eat cause i love the quad stackers with extra stacker sause. then when i got my food i took a bite and noticed that it was thicker than it should be so i looked and they had put 6 peices of meat on there. i was in burger heaven. lol. after my break i went back to taking orders and i did that till 10:30pm. then i had to go and clean the walk in freezer. but i like the freezer cause i love cold places. after i was done with the freezer i was about to go home for the night when my manager told me to put the tea in the walk in cooler. and there was about 24 gallons of sweat tea i had to push in on a cart. so i get in to the walk in and there is a bunch of boxes of food on the ground so i would have to try to get around them. that when my night got bad. i thought i was in the clear and 12 gallons of tea hit the floor. oh man did i cuse. i had to stay over and clean up that mess after i was done i walk out the door and drove home and started typing this out. so now you know why i my day sucks.

my life in view 2

after i graduated i started working full time at mcds. were i was starting to spend all my time and feeling like my life had no meaning to it. but i knew there had to be a way to be happy again. so i started to look online for college and i found devry university. so i applied for college. but something happened and i was not able to go which realy sucked concidering that was my only chance to get out of this hell. the reason i call it hell is because of a mother always complaining about money, and going through the change of life. after awhile i started to look into studieing japanese. which i find to be fun. but when i speak it people look at me in a weired way. like saying wtf. its left me confused. i dont know what i want any more. i want happienes but there is only one was to achieve that and that is to move from here were my mom is and move in with my father. so that leaves me at a cross roads. should i stay here and be unhappy for the rest of my life and not hurt my mother by leaving, or should i move in with my father and be happy and do something that will get me places in life. cause were i live now there is nothing here its a retirement town. sure there are people my age here but there is not any thing for us to do here ecept to watch out friends get into drugs and go to jail. its a really hard thing to watch. i was moved here when i was young and lived with a drunk up till a few years ago. i tried to kill him but was not able to because of my mother. since then we have been trying to make ends meet. which are almost able to do. thats why i think she would be better off with out me. well thats pretty much my life.

my life in view

I have a interesting life i think. i have some funny friends were i live most of them are nerds but what can i say. its never boring when you hang around me and my friends. i have found that i am a out cast when it comes down to it. i remember back when i started high school after coming off home bound. i didnt realy fit in with most people in the school, but there was a small group of people that just interested me. it was a group of nerds. so i started to hang out with them every day. and i felt like i really fit in with them. before i knew it i was a nerd myself. i thought my life could not get any funner than it already was. but soon after meeting them we all started kung fu. i found that to be alot of fun. but that was put an end because i had to get a job so i could help pay bills. i got my first job a mcdonalds. and quikly became the king of the grill. so i had a job and could pay bills. but i also still tried to hang out with all my friends. i found that it was hard to do concidering that i worked almost every day after school. then out of no were they cut my hours. for around 3 months, so i had plenty of time to hang out with my friends. and this was my senior year in high school. so i had alot to do. come the end of the year i had my hours back at mcdonalds and it was wearing me out quik. my grades were starting to drop cause i had no time to do my homework. but thanks to a teacher that helped me out. my grades were coming back up and i was able to concetrate better on my work. so in may of 08 i graduated from high school.