iM Event Coverage: Revwerks Track Day II

Another track day and another good turn out! Revwerks has been a great addition to Calgary’s car scene holding as many track days as possible, this one being the second of the year.

Even though it was a Monday there was a bunch of different cars out on the track although the Mitsubishi’s came out in the biggest numbers.

Unfortunately my time was short there so I didn’t get a chance to get everyone that tore it up but there was some impressive machines on the track.

Now onto the pics!

DriftSquad checking in.

Spectators, lots of people coming and going and saw this on the way out.

More pics can be found HERE. Sorry if I missed you out on the track!

iM Event Coverage: Garage Box Track Day

With some what of a summer finally upon us the track at Race City is starting to see some action. There have already been a few track days this year, but this marks the first track day held by GarageBox

The day, Monday May 23rd, started out with a lot of rain but that didn’t stop all the people from coming out and ripping it around. There was a great turn-out with some cars freshly out of their hiding spots from the winter. It was definitely great to see everyone enjoying themselves regardless of the cold and wet conditions and we look forward to seeing everyone at the next one!

Now onto the good stuff, the pics!



















As usual the parking lot is full of sick rides as well.





For the rest of the pics be sure to check them out HERE

May 17th Spec-D

Big thanks to Thomas Kucy for putting this video of the Spec-D event on May 17th. It’s been a while since then, but for those who haven’t seen it, check it out. Our homies do their thing and Thomas does a great job capturing it all.

Calgary Motorsports Meeting

For those local motorists that are residing in the 403, you know that our local race track – Race City, is in danger of being removed. Race city for many of us is a place to take our work of sweat and tears to beat around. With it removed, it means several things.
– Street racing
– Less race enthusiasm
– More accidents

There are many other things that one can come up with. It makes no sense because the city wants street racing to end, yet they remove the source of what many of us call our getaway. Steven Laz – founder of Calgary Racing Core, and a local enthusiast recently attended a meeting in regards to Race City. Here are his minutes:

Over 30 representatives from the racing community were at the meeting hosted by Shane Keating. As everyone was introduced, I was finally able to put some faces to names from the message boards, emails and phone calls that I had worked on over the past 3 months.

Over the ninety minute meeting, many points were covered, including looking into building a new race track, and the economic benefits of keeping the track where it is. Many viewpoints were discussed but the general consensus of the meeting was to bring forward a proposal to the City to keep the track operational. Whether it be a City owned organization like Portland International Raceway which was pointed out to be is fully self sufficient; a Not For Profit owned organization marketed by a for profit company like the NHL; or simply keeping the same business idea running and re-vitalizing it, we need a cohesive plan for dealing with the Race City situation.

The selection of members to the task force was put on the agenda for the next meeting. This task force will put forward a proposal to City Council that will represent the best interests for both the city and racing community. There is a lot of work ahead for this task force, but it does look promising.

Those of you interested in following Steven’s progress and updates can visit Calgary Racing Core. Give him a shout if you have any questions or suggestions.

iM Flashback: ZR Auto Track Day

We all miss the summer, I know everyone thats reading this does. Can’t wait for it to get nice out again and put the WRX back into summer mode. As much as I love blasting through the snow with her in winter mode, I love how she looks in summer mode.

Which got me thinking… how do drivers of exotics do it? I don’t know if I could wait a whole winter to drive my expensive ass car again. It spends most of its life hidden in a garage somewhere or stored.

I started digging back in my pics to look at exotics, and I came across the pics I took at the ZR Auto Track Day back in October. Corey posted some awesome pics of the cars on the track that day, but I figured I’d post a few of the ones I got since I was looking at them and wanted to share.

Check out Corey’s post -> iM Event Coverage: ZR Auto Track Day

Everybody loves exotics, and in reality, who doesn’t? But you know who loves them more? People that can afford them. So how do you live when you know you’ve gotta put your car away for over 6 months? I guess this is how they get it out of their system… by beating on them and using them to their full potential on the track before they have to put them away.

And then we thought that was it. It was late in the day, people were all starting to leave. Zahir (of ZR Auto) had taken the black Ferrari F40 home, so that was that. A few of us stuck around since we had nothing better to do. And then we heard what sounded like an monster, and tried to figure out what would make such a menacing noise. Looks like Zahir had another trick up his sleeve, and came back an hour later, and pulled up into the pits:

See that kid on the left of the picture looking at me funny? Its cause he just finished seeing me jump four feet back because Zahir fired up the Enzo a moment before I took the shot (Prashant can verify the distance of my jump). Seriously, when I was setting up this shot, the car was full frame:

As much as the F40 is my favorite Ferrari of all time, the Enzo is a sight to see and hear on the track:

Hope to see these cars again back on the track this year, and be sure that we will be there to capture them for you guys again.

iM Random Snaps: It’s All About Having FUN!

I miss the summer already. Random cruises, warm weather, track days, photoshoots… the list goes on. At the end of it all, it was all about having fun.

The other guys know that I love taking pics of cars, but I also love taking the randoms and the candids. Here are a few random snaps from a few things we did this summer during the track days, shoots, meets, etc.

We have a few shoots that haven’t been posted yet, so look out for them soon!








iM: REVWERKS Year End Track Day

Hey everyone just wanted to share a video of one of the last track days that we had here for the season. Unfortunately all the hard work, money, time, blood, sweat and tears we put into our cars here in Calgary only gets to be enjoyed for a few months out of the year. This year was especially dismal as we didn’t really have a summer per say; but we made the most of what we had and took advantage of all the track days we possibly could.

Here is a video of the last Revwerks Lapping Day of the season. Hope you all enjoy.

RevWerks Track Day from Ate8e8ate on Vimeo.

iM Event Coverage: ZR Auto Track Day

We were at the track attending the Spec D’s ‘Sunday Funday’ on October 3rd, and it just so happen to be the ZR Auto Track Day as well. So while the drifters were warming up I snapped a few pics of the super cars on the other track. There were a lot of nice cars and they were driven like they are supposed to be, but there was a fence in the way so I only was able to get panning shots of the cars. Enjoy.







iM Event Coverage: Spec D’s ‘Sunday Funday’

I got a chance to attend Spec D’s ‘Sunday Funday’ on October 3rd. Although the clouds were covering the sun, it was still fairly warm out, and a great time was had by all. I believe it was Spec D’s last event of the year considering the snow can descend upon us at any time.

Special thanks goes out to Spec D for organizing the event, and letting us in to get coverage on the event. Get out and support these guys next year by attending their events, they do not disappoint.