May is Drifting Month
My day job is being an accountant.  At my desk, the wall is covered with drift cars, DP flyers, DP class photos, a model of Danica’s indy car …I think about drifting all day!  What is cool at work is that they started “Idealab University” which is Idealab’s version of the TED talks.  So once a month, someone from Idealab or one of our operating companies is invited to come give an inspirational talk about something.  Its cool…this guy last month was sharing his experiences building & flying experimental aircraft.  What’s next month?  Its drifting month!  Being the resident racer, I’m going to share my experiences in drifting.

I’ve been going through 10 years worth of my racing photos and videos.  There is so much to share during my talk, but only 20-30 minutes to do so.  There are so many different directions to go too…do I set the mood to inspire?  Or teach people how to get into drifting?  Or just show endless car pics?  I have some time but the pics alone have taken me hours to go through!!

While I’ve been prepping for the university talk, I’ve also been trying to piece together this website.  My old site is still up, but I’m taking it down very soon.  Istill have like 4 years of blog/diary entries to copy over before I can retire Nadine180.com.

Drifting Pretty field trip!
DP just met for our first field trip of the year, to Temple City Auto Repair.  There, the owner of the shop, Henry, gave a 2-hour lecture on everything you need to know about alignments.  From camber to thrust angle…the DP gals are now certified alignment gurus.

At the end of the workshop the girls battled it out in an alignment quiz and won free alignments.  Big thank you to Henry & John for sharing their wisdom and time with the girls.  The field trip was a raving success.  The DP ladies partnered up and are now piecing together their alignment 101 presentations to teach the ladies who didn’t make it out to the field trip.  I love it!

Big thank you to Scott Oshiro for photographing the field trip.  For more pics, please visit our photo gallery

Grueling Commute
On my 12 mile bumper-to-bumper commute to work my ears started ringing.  The G35’s breaks don’t shut-up.  We checked them and they have plenty of meat left.  Shut-up brakes.  Shut-up.

Till next time!

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