Video From Hangzhou China WDS 2011.

On car GoPro footage.

These events are pretty wild, the track is  paved inside an Olympic stadium and lined with lose K rails. If you make a mistake its game over, but if you don’t then its a lot of fun to fly around the track!  Short Video Check it out!

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2011 was a great year,  I was going threw some photos thinking about the events and different places we went.  Here are a few of my favorite moments that got captured.

Down town Long Beach, Home Track

We started the year off right with a top 5 finish at the opening round in Long Beach. Its my home town and Ive always enjoyed the track so it was a great feeling to do well in front of my friends, fans and family.

Hot lanta 2011

Atlanta was a little rougher, After transport problems with our car and very little practice we qualified 8th and had a good run but that was about it. The sceneries around and inside Road Atlanta are awesome. Its one of my favorite venues just because of the beautiful track and surrounding forest. I wish we could just do full laps  of Road Atlanta.

Palm Beach International Raceway

New track on the circuit, after the first layout was found to be hazardous to spectators the second layout was established. It was a little slower but very technical. In the end we had a great run to the top 8. After a close battle with Die that ended in contact I meet with Rhys. We fought hard and got a one more time but unfortunately we would finish there. Still a great event that im looking forward to in 2012.

Riding Wall NJ

Wall is scary, if you touch the wall at Wall, then your going into the wall, atleast most likley. Its a decivingly real name to a track. The guardrail’s feel ok at first then it sucks  the back of the car in and grabs you, launching the car headfirst into the wall.

Seattle smoke screen

This is a great shot from Seattle. Fast and smoky following Essa riding the bank at full throttle for what seems to be an endless turn when your in someones smoke. Then coming down the power ally in front of all the cheering fans, its crazy, Seattle is a fast track and when your folowing you cant see.

Vegas, Night event

Vegas,  Its a wild town in the desert. Summer time temps hit 114 degrees out there so they just have us run at night,  like that fixes the fact that its still 100+ out without the sun. lol. Its always a fast track but dangerous  with concrete walls.

Hang time in vegas

Crash! You hope it never happens but like I said Vegas can be a crazy event. It the dark of the event we failed to see a brake line had moved and was being cooked by the heat from the exhaust. At 100MPH+ I lost the brakes and hit the wall. Luckily the team had put together a safe strong car and I walked away.

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Round 1 WDS China

China WDS 2011. Travel for 22 + hours, eat crazy food and get no sleep. The cars arrive at the very last possible moment, no problem. Just when a photographer like Larry Chen says stand right here its going to look awesome for a picture, you just do it.

China, Tianjin 2011

The competition goes down inside of the massive olimpic stadiums. They pave the outer ring or running track in this case, it can be a little tight and unforgiving  as its lined with k-rails but it dose make for great competition and tons of seating. I heard they had over 25,000 people there on competition night.

Irwindale wall rides

Back in the good ole US of A! I love Irwindale. California weather, the crowds, the smoke, the walls the fact that its the season finale and its its all on the line. Its just an amazing way to end the season.

Late nights in China

So, not long after Inwindale it was back to China for round 2. I had some repairs to make to the FC after a fender bender in round 1. Most of us had some kind of repair work. with only one day tell the event started we all worked into the night fixing our cars for battle.

KMR, Workin on the 8

The off season. Back at the shop getting ready for the 2012 season!

WDS Round 2 in Hangzhou  China was a fantastic event.  Larry Chen, Andrew Escarcega, and Skyler Smith from Drift Fotos where there to capture the excitement. Ive been to Hangzhou before and know my way around a little. Its a beautiful city and an awesome stadium to drift in. The track this time was tight and technical, K-Rails lining both sides of the track so if you made a mistake it was smash time, with intermittent rain showers during the event it made for a fun exiting show in front of a large crowd

Kyle Mohan Rocks out in China from Andrew Escarcega on Vimeo.

This is an awesome video! Check out some great in car and on car footage from the final round of competition at Irwindale speedway.

Filmed and Edited by, Andrew Escarcega