Honda FF Battle 2009
Scene: FF Battle Presented By General Tires; Autoclub Speedway - Fontana, CA
By Super Street Staff, Photography by Super Street Staff
The tough part came next: picking the cars.
With connections deep in the Honda world, we spread the word as fast as our 14.4k modems and pigeon couriers could push out. While we
originally planned for this event to take place in October (we know, the timing is off thanks to our print schedule), we moved the date up further
into July to coincide with a NASA HPDE event, which also hosts our Super Lap Battle qualifier and the Honda Challenge series. That meant we
had little time to get the word out and we thought best to search for our local heroes. Sean and Charles attacked the two biggest Honda forums -
Honda-Tech.com and NWP4Life.com - to ask those sites' usual suspects if they were down; JDMWong enlisted his strongest soldier, John "Mi
Den" Nguyen at AEM to work his magic, reaching out to the underground masses you don't see parading around as Internet celebrities. Since
every owner had varying track experience, we called Andy Hope and Jeremy Croiset, two veteran drivers with lots of track time, to come test
these cars to the best of their abilities. Our initial idea was to have Andy Hope drive all the cars, but with the time constraints of other NASA-run
groups being merged together, we felt that the addition of Jeremy could help give us some accurate feedback.
After finding the right drivers, we quickly found our run groups with plenty of back-ups to boot. Representing the original B-Series B-boys, we
had: Kane Chan from Street Image Performance, Chris Tong of Quiktek, Gil Corona from Circuit Hero, Charles Tran and Reza Yaghoubi (who
at the last minute pulled out due to a mechanical problem); the K-Series clan consisting of Loi Song from Sportcar Motion, Will Salazar (also
representing Circuit Hero), Mike Chang of Evasive Motorsports, Raceline's Elton Lo and the infamous Katman, or as he's known otherwise in
the civilian world, Jason Kaplan.
With our choices nailed down, we brought all our competitors and drivers together for a two-day event at the Autoclub Speedway in Fontana,
California. The first day would put all the cars onto the track for timed lap sessions while the second would focus on dyno figures and a local car
meet so readers could come see these cars in action. Let's see how they did:
By Super Street Staff
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