Facing serious challenges from both competitors and the weather, Team Falken put on a valiant effort, but when it rolled the dice at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Round 4 of the demanding Formula Drift competition, the team managed to make the semi-finals, with Falken’s Tyler McQuarrie losing to eventual overall winner Tanner Foust. McQuarrie placed fourth.
With track temperatures peaking at 145-degrees, and air temps at 110 degrees, great stress was placed on the high-revving engines of all competitors as well as the drivers themselves. During the consolation round to determine third place, McQuarrie suffered camshaft position sensor failure, but his crew was able to replace it in less than five minutes.
Teamwork became the order of the day. During practice on Friday night, Darren McNamara’s Saturn Sky blew its …Â Details
The past two races demonstrate that Brawn GP has entered the “second phase” of the team’s career in Formula One, according to an expert observer.
After dominating six of the opening seven grands prix this year, the Brackley based team succumbed to the superiority of Red Bull Racing at Silverstone and the Nurburgring.
“For Brawn, the solitude and isolation since the departure of Honda is beginning to weigh,” former F1 team manager Joan Villadelprat, who recently made a bid to bring his Spanish outfit Epsilon Euskadi into the sport in 2010, said…Â DetailsÂ
Video Surfing – An Instant Classic 3 – More highlights from one of the greatest days in pro surfing history as Jeffreys Bay goes absolutely haywire during Day Two of the Billabong Pro.