Event Coverage | Sideway Sundays #3 (Pt. I)

Night-Import: Photography and Words by William Lee

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It's been almost a week now since the third Sideway Sundays event happened at Irwindale Speedway. If you have no clue on what this event is about, I suggest you to visit Sideway Sundays fanpage for detailed information.
First of all, my bad on the lag with the coverage. There are still a few event coverage and features I'll need to post up, but because I didn't want all you Sideway Sundays participants to think we bailed out, I caught up with other minor things and finally decided to write up this coverage today, but there are more reasons on the wait, which will be explained later on.

All in honesty, unlike the past two Sideway Sundays event held on March 20th and May 1st, the feedback from this past weeks Sideway Sundays was not so pleasing to read, which is why I wanted to wait a bit so that everyone had an opportunity to voice their opinions about the event, but this issue will be explained more in Part 2.
I was responsible in promoting this event on various forums and on facebook, so if you saw 'night87' on your forum, that was me. Old to new information were listed on the forums and I only update new information after receiving it from the organization/staffs, so please read through the original post. Because the Car Show section did not have any complaints, today's Part 1 coverage will only cover the Car Show area and Part 2 will be about the most debated issue as of still today, drifting. Well let's get on with how everything went on in the morning.

Special Coverage | Lexus of Westminister Meet

Night-Import: Photography by Nick Schultz | Words by William Lee

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While I was busy at Sideway Sundays, our photographer Nick made it out to an annual Lexus meet at a Lexus dealership located in Westminister, CA. I've actually came across this event post on the Lexus forums and was planned to attend, but because I had to support an event our site was a part of, I missed out! Looking through the photo coverage, seems like this meet was off the hook.

Special Coverage | Raceline & Super Street Meet

Night-Import: Photography and Words by William Lee

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It's been a busy week going to work and managing the site almost every day, but when the weekend comes by, you guys know I'll be out there covering an automotive related event. I was pretty hesitant about going to one of the biggest Euro car shows here in SoCal called Big SoCal Euro Gathering held at San Diego, CA, but because of some issues I had with the car, I decided to head up to Raceline/Super Street's car meet at Fontana, CA, the same day when NASA had their own event.

I'm not familiar with any of the staffs from Super Street, except Joey from The Chronicles because I went up to him during It's JDM yO!'s One Year Anniversary Meet to compliment his site. He probably forgot who I was, but I did see him doing his own coverage for his site, so make sure to visit The Chronicles.
Enough with my loneliness and let's talk about this meet hosted by Raceline and Super Street.

Random Spotlight | ASM S2000

Night-Import: Photography by Kaoru Shoji | Words by William Lee

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A few S2000s are well known when it comes to Time Attack in Japan, but there was one that struck the world with amazement, leaving some of us speechless with its extraordinary power and overall outstanding build; Autobacs ASM's S2000.
Our new family member, Kaoru san from Japan, gave us these exclusive photos taken during a time attack session at Tsukuba.

Event Coverage | NASA Racing

Night-Import: Photography and Words by William Lee

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Let me start off by saying, "if you want to race, do it legally!"
There were so many meets I've been to during this past year and I'm also including the ones that were hours away from my pad. From just a specific brand/model to general meets, I've spent so much money on gas my credit card statement was building up every month. But if you love cars, you gotta do what you gotta do right? What really sucks though about these meets is the continuation not lasting so long because of immature behaviors by drivers. Burnouts and revving are the most common behaviors seen, but also illegal street racing.
Yes, it's fun if you race against someone who has the same specs as yours, but is it safe and worth getting a ticket? Hell no.

There are only a limited amount of locations where racing is actually legal in the states and I found out about one organization that was created with a purpose of racing legally, called NASA.
NASA (National Auto Sport Association) is an organization created since 1991 opening the tracks for amateur to pro drivers to drive at 'a safe and controlled environment'. Most of their events in California are held at AutoClub Speedway, Fontana and I was luckily present on the day of the event when my plan was to attend Super Street/Raceline's meet, which was on the same day and location right outside of the Speedway entrance. I wasn't informed about this event nor knew about NASA, but it was definitely worth my time walking around the pit area checking out some fully built high performance cars.