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 @ Final STRD Track Day – Sept 6,…

Had the pleasure of attending the final track day for STRD on a decent holiday Monday.  A lot of us were out there snapping pics, so I’ll keep mine to a minimum.  I’m sure the others will post up their shots soon.  A big thank you to my best friend Aubrey for letting me borrow her camera, and pretty much solidifying the fact that I need an updated camera, and to Prashant for helping me with some optimal settings.

Heres a link to more pics on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aldrichevangelista/sets/72157624896216008/

A few more after the jump!

Enjoy!

Revwerks Track Day 4

I love track days. Nothing beats watching cars opened up to their full potential, soaking in the sounds of their exhausts as they tear down the straight. Or in the case of one RSX, the scream of it’s supercharger.

There was plenty of nice cars that showed up to this track day including some very fast Corvettes and a rare Lotus Esprit. Didn’t get a chance to get a picture of every car as I was only there for few hours, but still got a few good shots. The next track day will be happening on September 23rd so if you’ve got the time, definitely go check it out!







Mark Lin’s Supercharged RSX!




iM: Speedtech August Trackday Pt. II

Some overdue shots from last weeks’ track day at Race City. This is just in additon to Ryan’s contribution a few posts back…
Nice cars, the weather held out for us most of the day, although it did rain for about an hour which did allow us to set up a chicane on the first straight to change the course up a bit. The sun came out and dried up the pavement near the afternoon and everyone was back out in full force.

I tried my best to get pics of everyone’s cars while I was off the track. Sorry for those that I missed!

Gangster D’s Spoon S2k

Crazy BMW 1-series

Revwerks Track Day

Today was Revwerks second track day down at Race City Motor Park so I decided to go check it out, grab some pictures and hang out. I got there pretty late so I could only grab a few pictures and this is also the first time I’ve shot at a track setting so most of my pictures aren’t that great. However, it was pretty fun, missed most of the action but the day had everything including killing crows, putting out fires, barricade hurdling resulting in cracked ribs and lots of “Oh crap, I broke something”.
ESS Supercharged E90 M3. What a monster.

Arif’s EK about to attack the straight.

MR2’s engine caught on fire due to a melted oil line resulting in a dropped clutch and the contents of 2 fire extinguishers being emptied.

Broken front lip.