Interview at Adams Motorsport Park

Hi everyone !

Today the Driftingprod Team is back to give you, in exclusivity, some awesome feedback from our interview with Troy Adams, CEO of Adams Motorsports Park, shot on Thursday the 15th of November.

Once again we, really, want to thanks Troy for giving us time and an awesome interview. As the quote says, sharing is caring, and he shared with us all we needed to know about drifting!

Alexandre Collat, and Thibault Torrecilla, even got the chance to get into the cars for few laps to experience the sensations and things go from the inside of the car.

Honestly guys that was an awesome experience.

But I have already told you too much.

I let you discover the video interview.

Ladies and gentlemen... Troy Adams !

 

 

 

Script : 

1. T.T (Interviewer) : Hi ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight to introduce you what drifting is.
   Actually we are at Adams Motorsports Park in Riverside. And now we gonna introduce you what drifting is. In fact you have all seen the movie fast and furious. Tonight we gonna try to show you what is the difference between really and what you see in those movies.
2. Troy Adams : Drifting is, you know, sliding sideways into a corner looking out of control, but yeah, under control. If you have seen the movie fast and furious, you know that is drifting except we do that in a much bigger way.
3. Troy Adams : I think Fast and Furious are really good movies of the underground scene of what we see here, what we call car meets where thousands of teen, or 25 years old, male or female, is got a change to hangout, and it is truly the life style of drifting with the cars in here. Especially, in the United States. A lot of the drifting came from Japan, so that is really good as well. And when we are here on the track, we take that, and we put it on the track and make it safe to the public. 
4. Troy Adams: he basic thing is just learning car control, finding a safe environment like we do here at the track, or can just do donuts, or picking two counts and do a figure rates to get your car controlled down, and then from there it's just trying to learn how to connect the track you will see people going to the big swift first and they can just barely make that turned and then the much they progress to get better and better to connect the track. We think guys progress from 1 to 2 month and learned how to do the first turns and the basics, and then 6 month to a year they are connecting the track and getting closer to people competing...like formula D professionals. 
5. Troy Adams: I would say on bottom level to get a car 1500 dollars to 5000 dollars and then of course, you want to come up and practice. We do 20 dollars an hour practice fees, so they come over and they have 3 sessions, so it's 60 dollars a night. Most of the guys will come and shoot every week. 
6. Troy Adams: A lot of our sponsors are just products sponsors, you know we do have financial sponsors but we have companies like Monster Energy Drinks which is the number one energy drink right now in the country and moving to the world, they are growing rapidly, you start to see a lot of the athletes winning in high level and then we have Lucas Oil which is one of the better lubricants tank and filters, Ibox Spring, those are some of our major sponsors that support us here, right here at the track.
7. Troy Adams: We do everything from go karting, car ride and race program, the general public can come and race for 25 dollars, to a fast go-kart Monday night, we also do a racing school, and every month we have a racing series around here. And then, our Tuesday time attack, our Thursday night drifting, you name it, we do it right here at the park.
8. T.T: The driver was really good, but the fact you get into a car with a person that you don't know, you have to trust him because you put your life in his hands, i mean if this guy crash you basically loose a leg. So, that was really scary, but at the same time so intense.
9. A.C: The first time I get into a car of drifting last time it was a lot of adrenaline and so much fun, it's like a roller-coaster. yeah i would like to do it again if I could, maybe one time or maybe one time it's gonna be in my car. 
10. S.S: It was really great I mean I was so sick after that but before I really enjoyed the drift, and I don't know the feeling is really different and really great. It is not like in the movie, you watch the movie and you are like Wowww, but if you are inside and in the car it is really different and really cool.
11. T.T:  When the car starts to drift and when the guy push the break you really start losing control and it is all about that, it is because you lose control that people likes it.
12. A.C : I was thinking drifting was just like in fast and furious, 100 cars drifting in a street... mm. I mean this is dangerous and now I can we can race drifting in a safe way. And this is amazing!

Meeting Adams Motorsports Park Team.

Hi buddy’s,

We are back today to gives you the best feedback ever at Adams Motorsports Park!
We went there on Thursday 8 of November, where we met the team for the first time.

First of all, we want to thanks the all Team of Adams Motorsports Park for being so kind and helpful with us.
Thanks to them we got real media passes to access the track and even get into the cars for a drift session (as passengers of course).

We got the chance to be so close to the cars and the drivers and shoot them straight from the track, which allowed us to get really good shots.

Unfortunately the weather was really bad, rainy and windy, but the drifting session wasn't canceled thankfully.
We'll probably have to get back there because the shoots we got are not really reflecting drifting. In fact, because the ground was so wet due to the rain, the cars were drifting so well but of course smoke wasn't coming out from the wheels, which killed a bit the spirit of the experience.
Anyway it was still amazing!

Alexis Ostrovick got the chance to get into one of the cars for 3 laps, the driver was pretty good at it and almost made Alexis throw is dinner away, but no worries guys, it didn't happen.

We were there from 6pm until 8pm. The drifting night basically ended at 10pm, but because the weather was so bad we had to pack our equipment and leave earlier.

Please visit Adams Motorsports Park Website for more information about them. They have awesome staff member and really good services. The prices are fair, as a foreigner, from France, I even think the prices are really cheap for what you get out of it!
Our Team definitely would recommend them to you.

Click HERE to access the website and figure out how to get there !

What is our project about

Hi everyone,

We are the Driftprod Team composed of 6 international UCR students. The members are Alexis Ostrovick, Alexandre Collat, Jean Phillipe Carquet, Siva Sivanesan, Philipp Lomme and Thibault Torrecilla.

This project we'll talk about is part of our assignment for the Video production class of Ms. Kim "Kat" Shepherd. She is not only a teacher but a real coach from who we learned a lot about practicalities of video production. We would like to thanks her for her amazing job.

So, what is the project about? The class has been divided in different teams, each of the teams had to choose a subject and make a short video of 6 minutes about it. The video could be an interview, a presentation as a TV add, a documentary, whatever we felt like doing.

So, here we are, the Drifting Prod team decided to introduce you, public and readers, what Drifting is.
I'm pretty sure all of you have heard, at least once, about the movies Fast and Furious, in which bad asses drives tuning cars going crazy. When you see a lot of smoke coming from the tires, which is part of the drifting experience.
For the formal definition, here you the Wikipedia one :

  "Drifting is a driving where the driver intentionally over-steers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner".

Our video will be documentary oriented. We want to show to the public what is drifting in real life, what are the risk, how to do that, the sensation it gives to the drivers...

In order to show you the best of it, we contacted Adams Motorsports Park Company in Riverside. They invited us as guest on their racing/drifting track during the drifting night’s shows, it allowed us to meet the drivers, try the cars, shoot the drifts and so on...

That's it for this post, we'll be back soon to give you a feedback about our experience at Adam's track.

Driftprod Team.