A couple of months ago, I used to be loading up my camera bag for some drifting and drag racing at a small local track. Just like the drivers who had prepped their cars for the night, I used to be desperate to head out with some friends and luxuriate in a night of motorsport. But two days before the event, the track was shut down.
This wasn’t the primary time Urban Racing had to search out a brand new venue since its start in 2018. It’s seen a handful of locations within the Dallas/Fort Price area in its quest to take racing off the streets and construct a secure home for drivers who want to search out their limits. Its latest home was familiar though. Motion was back heading in the right direction at Texas Motor Speedway where it had hosted drift events earlier in its history.
Slide N’ Shine: The Finale was the second event back on the track. Very similar to the previous Slide N’ Shine, pro and grassroots drivers had a likelihood to push the boundaries on a high-speed drift course, or try their hand on a smaller scale track, and even in a rental drift automotive with a coach within the passenger seat.
If the track isn’t exactly your style, a burnout pit was added this time around. I feel just like the photos can tell this a part of the story higher than any words can.
Because the name implies, with the ‘slide’ comes the ‘shine’, and a show contained in the facility makes for an ideal place to park up, grab a bite with friends, and let your machine sing in a rev battle – all with no likelihood of the police coming to shut down the meet.
A couple of cars found themselves in front of my lens there too, most notably a turbo Honda K-series-powered NSX behind a row of Toyota Supras, and a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ that I used to be lucky enough to get a number of shots of before the group swarmed around it.
With this event capping off the season, Urban Racing is already focusing attention to next yr. More sponsors, more vendors and more people, all with the goal of fostering a culture and constructing a community across the track for high-octane fun in a time when it is required most.
Brian Barisa
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