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Gardella Racing: Final Battle of 2011

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October 14, 2011 (Howell, NJ) Round 7: Title Fight, goes down in the record books as the best event Formula Drift has ever put on. There was not only an amazing fight for the championship, the driving was fierce and the crowd was sold out. The fans were so loud; it was reminiscent of a college football game. Team owner, Gary Gardella reflects about this epic event, “Looking up into the crowed and seeing the excitement and glow on everyone’s face gave me the best feeling. I am sure all of the people that are involved with the series felt the same way; it was awesome.”

Each battle starting with the top 32 was extraordinary. All of the drivers drove their hearts out to try to make it to the top of the podium. Adding to the excitement for the fans was all of the unexpected crashes along the way. Some of the top drivers were driving so aggressive they were on that fine edge, which is just unbelievably amazing. Some of the crashes or mishaps came from top drivers such as Samuel Hubinette, Chris Forsberg, and Justin Pawlak, to name of a few.

The championship battle was so tight that in the beginning of the final 4, the title could have gone to 4 different drivers; Darren McNamara, Justin Pawlak, Dia Yoshihara and Chris Forsberg. After it was all said and done Dia Yoshihara came away with the 2011 Formula Drift championship.

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O’Sullivan Looks Towards 2012 Following Irwindale Exit

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October 17, 2011 (Howell, NJ)  Irish drifting champion Eric O’Sullivan has vowed to return to 2012 Formula Drift competition with renewed ambition following an unexpexcted early exit from the season finale at Toyota Speedway Irwindale, California.

Following damage sustained to the Gardella Racing Mobil 1 Pontiac Solstice during the first qualification session, O’Sullivans efforts during his remaining pass of the course failed to reach the mark required for passage into the main competition on Saturday October 8th.

Greatly dissapppointed with the result, O’Sullivan was confined to spectating at the sell out finale and reflect on what was a challenging year for the 2009 Formula Drift rookie of the year.

“Irwindale Speedway will test every aspect of a car and driver,” explained O’Sullivan. “Unless you’re 100% comfortable and committed to the course, and with such an unbelievably strong grid of drivers, you can’t just expect to make the grade.  Today we fell short and the result is not a fair reflection of the efforts that we put in as a team during 2011.”

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SHOWREEL MMXI | THE WARNING

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Stephen Brooks dropped his “Showreel” this weekend, which touches on some of his works in and around the drifting circuits, & car shoots that he’s been attending. Stephen is a modern day visionary when it comes to filming drift, he has a knack for tapping into certain filming styles that we dont ordinarily see. We were lucky to have him at the Wall NJ event this summer with Gardella Racing, where he filmed what we would consider one of the most spectacular edits of 2011, “Drifting The Guantlet”
Which can also be viewed here

Ryan Tuerck Vegas Formula D 2011 – YAER Productions (Video)

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First off I’d like to say how much of a pleasure it is to work with Ryan Tuerck and the Gardella Racing team… they are a professional, talented and dedicated group of guys.

Here is a link to their site – gardellaracing.com/​

Second, the inspiration for this video came from a music video I recently saw online from the artist Sapient. He is a local musician from the Portland area were I live, and I have been bumping his stuff for years since his days in the group Sandpeople.

You should check out his facebook for songs and updates on his tour @ facebook.com/​Sapientkills

Lastly, for this video I wanted to try a few new things… I wanted to use only one lens for the main section, and that being a 50mm f1.2 at 1.2. I also wanted to get yet another style of video for Tuerck. The last one we did at the Seattle FD stop was more on the comical side (vimeo.com/​28039775), so we decided to flip the Vegas one a different direction.

I want to continue to try and find ways to show other sides of these drivers than we are all used to. It’s hard for me to follow a driver through a series if I know little about him/her. So my goal was to show how real life a person like Ryan Tuerck is, and how good he is at swinging a beast around like that Camero(which I got a ride in and will never forget).

That said, hope you enjoy the work.

Camera: Ryan Davis, Justin Shreeve and Joe Ayala
Edit: Ryan Davis
Song: Sapient – ‘Many of One’ off the Tusks Album
Canon 5DMK2/T2i
Canon 14mm f2.8 50mm f1.2 400mm f2.8 2X extender
FCP

Mobil 1 The Grid: Spotlight – Eric O’Sullivan (Video)

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Check out as Mobil 1 took some time to spotlight Eric O’Sullivan. Nice little video and well deserved spot on the Gardella Team for EOS.

DRIFTING THE GAUNTLET : Gardella Racing (Video)

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DRIFTING THE GAUNTLET : Gardella Racing from Stephen Brooks on Vimeo.

Stephen Brooks definitely does a superb job on capturing the Gardella racing team while at Round 4 of the Formula Drift series at Wall Speedway. View this video…