Rain rain go away come back another day, that was the sentiment on most people’s minds when Friday dawned for the practice and qualifying of the second round for Demon Energy D1NZ. Tauranga’s ASB Baypark arena was playing host to New Zealand’s top tier drift stars along with some international flavor in the mix.
Sadly Friday proved to be challenging with rain causing mayhem for most trying to set up their cars. Ryan Tuerck featured in the line up this year piloting a recently completed GT86 2JZ powered drift machine, The rain however limited their set up progress which meant he headed into Saturday with a partially set up car and a lot more work to come up to speed with the characteristics of it. Jodie Verhulst was another stagnant worker with trying to set up her just completed engine swapped 2JZ powered Supra with a GT86 front. With rain causing trouble qualifying for the Pro sport series drifters and the D1NZ drifters was pushed to Saturday which also meant a jam packed day for everyone. Continue reading
