This has been by far one of my favorite years running this blog, and a lot of it has to do with the type of coverage I was able to get this year. SAR (San Antonio Raceway) has almost become a second home to me and the guys from the ZeroGrip drift club, the first event I attended out there was in April, and its only fair that for our last event coverage piece it ends with the years final Day of Drift Event.

In the all to common procrastination fashion that is my writing process these days, here I am at 5am finishing up this article just hours before its scheduled to be released. Why do I do this to myself…why?!? It’s always hard to start putting out articles at the end of the year because I never know if there will be one more event that I’ll be able to go to – this year has been awesome and there have been a lot of firsts for me this year, besides finally mastering tying a tie (jk). This would be my first time shooting a night drift event, and I think I’m hooked.

It was September 27th, a Tuesday, when I got the email; “Welcome to Super D Matsuri at Grange Motor Circuit…If you are receiving this email, your media application has been accepted and approved”. I don’t think I’ve re-read anything more times just to be certain I wasn’t seeing things, this was the final piece missing from the planned trip some friends and I had decided to take for a few months now. We had our plane tickets, hotels reserved, car rental all good – and now I had confirmation I would be one of the few media guys out there on the track. This would be my first time in California, and the first big trip for any Gear-Trends coverage.