Winning my First Pro-1 Drift Battle

[Music] [Music] so [Music] so for the start of our second fd seattle video we are in the car with trenton from why plate beautiful new this is the s7 s7 yeah it's making me excited for my audi but the team has been hustling got the engine all back together in the car and we're on our way to meet them at the dyno we're going to a place called is it in tech integration uh one of trenton's friends nikolai has a sweet car hauler that picked up s15 looks so cool i think this bottom end's a lot more similar to our old setup than we initially thought we thought it was like 11-1 but it does look like it's the same if not within a half point of compression of the old bottom end that we had so putting it on the dyno is more of just a preventative measure because it probably will be pretty close to being on point with the whole tune but we'll find out before we hop on the dyno i want to give a massive shout out to one of my sponsors ship station the holiday season's right around the corner and if 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fuel which is probably from a half point higher compression so fun fact we were actually spinning the whole time we were actually making somewhere around 940 horsepower because it was spinning it wasn't reading right so now you can see the actual graph and then you can see uh the difference when we add the nitrous as a spool aid brings the torah on quite a bit sooner step out of it [Music] so [Music] it's officially saturday and it's gonna be the first day of competition uh they announced the brackets actually like a week or two ago and i'm gonna be going up against gucci my biggest concern right now is getting my lead lines dialed and actually after watching the footage that you guys saw in the last video it was super super clear to me that i need to make some setup changes with the car most of all if you watch the footage back you can see i'm basically buried on limiter driving extremely shallow and the car wants to ride an inside line no matter if i entered with more momentum it continually wanted to fall down and what that says to me is i need more wheel speed so we've changed the rear gear and we might potentially actually go to a shorter gear and then run fifth instead of running fourth of the longer gear but that's something we're gonna have to figure out in practice we've got four laps to figure it out so we're gonna be making some setup changes as well uh very common thing for fd cars on bank tracks is to actually run a different setup on that outside rear wheel so people will run a little bit less tow a little more air pressure different shock settings so we're going to try that and hope we can get a dialed in enough to where i can be confident my lead line because i'm not too worried about chase i just need to make sure i put down a chase-able lead so right now that's been my focus probably have about two or three laps in practice that we can squeeze in we'll go from there but then we run into the fun of seattle where we show up to the track and uh 90 of the track is actually dry so we're going to have to now revert from what we had planned which was our wet setup back to the dry setup and i don't know if i want a trainer but don't want to drain it's a good question the car didn't have oiling issues in the rain so i guess i want it to rain i think one thing that it was kind of glazed over that i didn't really put enough emphasis on the fact that the team was able to get together putting together basically an entire long block at the track is no small feat and to be able to just throw it right on the dyno have no issues and have it run strong um looking over the gears again one thing we did decide to do i'm actually gonna run fifth today instead of fourth because we couldn't put a long enough gear in the rear end to get the mile an hour that i wanted so by running fifth with a little bit shorter gear ratio it'll have me with about 10 mile an hour more wheel speed to play with on the bank and hopefully give me to that outer edge but the track is patchy so i'm gonna have to be careful and just do my best [Music] no [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] so there were actually a lot of crashes in practice and although the car felt way better i would have liked to have gotten more runs and to get comfortable with the new setup but yet again that's another thing you don't really see behind the scenes of fd i know when i used to watch i was super judgmental and i was like how the heck are these guys driving spinning out not running the right line but you don't see some of these guys get like maybe two laps of practice the day before or like in this case one lap of practice and uh the other day i think what do we get like four so you know five total laps on a brand new track brand new setup is really hard to adapt but um i guess that's one of those things that just comes with time i'm gonna do my best i feel way more confident in the car now uh [Music] um and here's adam lz and uh i i i found out that they actually uh they had to swap his engine out as well from i believe thursday to friday adam lz is ready to go he's ready to throw down here ken gucci will lead in that in that rowdy energy toyota racing toyota supra adam lz here we go let's send it kushi out front adam was in the chase position let's see if this fd rookie could take down the og ken gucci ken gucci throwing it down big angle there on the bank adam lz a couple car distances behind still mimicking the angle man really holding on to that angle coming out down to the power alley adam elsie quickly dips that back left chromed out blinged out three-piece wheel now transitioning into that last outside zone good flick by lz gucci does not get all the way out there neither does adam lz ryan this looks like a by no offense is that is this an offense but it looks like a pro two battle that we saw the kind of they need to tidy it up here on the second run that's what i'm trying to do well another takeaway is it was that was also probably the most complete and settled that we've seen lz so far in the tough battles that he's had against former champions now going up against a veteran in kengushi you can see gucci kind of starts pretty high on the bank lz was trying to maintain the correct line he falls back a little bit gucci now coming through the power alley here you can see as he comes off that little dip right there that decel zone gets right in that second outside zone a little bit tighter there is ld and he's using that to gain proximity so he's making a little bit of a sacrifice but nice dip in there to try to gain proximity but then again he will be on a little bit of a tighter line so i think this is the best lz we've seen so far in the times that we've seen from the two rounds in st louis and ken gucci's definitely gonna have to step up this chase game here because now we've seen lz was able to keep proximity even though he didn't follow the exact line like in this section here you can see he doesn't go out to outside zone three he did keep the pressure on and a nice little flick to tuck up on the inside to try to follow ken out and came off the line a little bit but still pretty strong performance overall um [Music] um [Music] [Music] gr toyota supra the gazoo racing and uh for for ken he's feeling it i i you know again he he wants it to rain he likes that he says my car likes the ring so i'm with it here we go adam lz will lead really fast on the bank great angle man really throwing down not shaking ken gucci oh look at the lz massive angle now coming to the power outlet oh my goodness ken gucci absolutely smoking it off of the bank and exceeds all four tires off ryan that could be really devastating for the goose coming out last outside zone oh man oh very unfortunate there for gucci i think he was shaken coming off the bank ryan yeah he definitely did not help his cause there and coming off the bank from outside zone one that really long outside zone that basically is the entire bank uh has been problematic for some drivers in terms of finding the proper speed and momentum to exit the bank you can see gucci starts losing a little bit of angle here probably realizes you know i need to catch up but i need to get on the right line and almost the car starts under steering as he comes through the smoke line he goes four tires off so that's going to be an incomplete in the chase and i feel like that's going to be pretty hard to overcome just because lz did not incomplete in either of his runs so this this right now we're on the precipice of a pretty big upset here for lz who may be getting his first win in the pro championship look at lz how long he stays high on the bank that i mean that's a great line and and to his defense basically it seemed that ken gucci couldn't hold on and hold that angle as high as adam was and even in the chase he still held that higher line which is incorrect from a chase driver but he still had that that high line some of the drivers are having a little bit more trouble with but adam lz held it together he just dropped the tire barely over the line and gucci had a poor line from end of outside zone one to that area and you can see that he just overshot very unfortunate for ken goshe but you know who stoked adam lz gets the win adam lz will be moving on into the top 16. we did it we won our first battle at fv james is shaking i'm shaking well this is just the beginning the car feels great i'm gonna hold the james i think i'm less shaky than you um i made it happen i definitely went off and missed one of the zones i'll have to watch the footage back but we did what we have to do and we're moving on to the top 16. [Music] um um as we get prepared here are three judges chris ewell brian egger and ryan latte criticizing critiquing and judging brown top 16 round three michael essa throws it in really high on the bank adam lz tucking in just about a car length behind great mimicking of the angle a little bit lower let's see how he handles dropping in from the bank taking that title adam lz coming into that second outer zone good job through the power it looks like dry conditions as of right now we'll see if that holds mike lessa bringing into that final outside zone achilles tire spoke all over the track both these gentlemen on achilles radials the official tire of the link engine management pro 2 championship that was a great battle yeah after last year with adam lz i certainly felt that he deserved to be in pro one and you know after a shaky start in st louis we're starting to see him get a bit more settled here i mean look at that that's that's a champion that he's going up against and mike olessa doing a pretty good job on proximity comes down a little bit lower on the line has to make an adjustment so makes a mistake there but mike lester does as well he makes a little adjustment there not as big he is able to fill that second outside zone and also the third and then keep it nice and smooth here but that gives an opportunity as mike lester does a great lead for adam lz to kind of chase him down we know that great great chases always come about because of quality leads and that's where you see that little mistake there by adam and the slight one there by michael nessa as well [Music] um it's gonna be interesting i think he's really gonna be chomping at the heels of adam lz and adam i think is going to be really comfortable here out front getting the fresh air let's see how lz handles it top 16 in pro competition going against like you said ryan a former champ lz initiates really high on the bank look at michael essa sweating them right now dropping in into that power alley now look oh man that smoke really gets his face oh and a massive mistake there by michael essa and i think he was blinded by the smoke like i said that achilles tire smoke some of the thickest here on track elsie it's just barely a tread of that achilles tire into that last outer zone ryan but that was a big mistake both of them you know lz had the mistake on the inside now essa really big on the outside but some great driving to kick off top 16. yeah let's take a look at this again here really interesting battle between a former champion and michael essa and a rookie in adam lz here comes essa pouring on the pressure but he gets a little bit too far inside here and then he has to fall back and like you said maybe gets lost in the smoke here it is from another angle once again super close as the angle up there's the smoke cloud and he goes a little bit too far almost three tires off loses some ground but a wide swing right there by adam lz allows michael essa to catch back up and close the door for the remainder of the run lz makes a slight mistake by not getting into outside zone number four so we saw some mistakes back and forth and uh this is a close one here jared both drivers with a couple of errors that the judges can point out does it put the direction of the judge's vote in one way or the other you will find out here shortly so chris yule says michael essa ryan lantane says one more time and brian eggert says michael essa gets the win now hey mike we got some stancy boy tires for you look this was left but break the entire run i think it was behind essa so one of the things i think moving into tomorrow um one of the changes that we're gonna make on the car i was gonna say it in the video but actually i don't think i'm gonna say it because we've recently found out that other teams are watching these videos and taking the information and using it to adjust their setups when they battle us so i'm gonna have this conversation off camera we'll talk with jin's right now all right so we just officially lost our very first top 16 battle i brought jin jo virgin has been doing all the spotting to explain to you guys why we lost i know there's a lot of kind of misunderstanding a lot of you guys don't necessarily watch formula drift or understand a lot of the calls a lot of people on the comments are saying oh it's a bogus call so i thought we should do our best to explain you why we lost yep so both runs looked decent like your your lead one run was was great and uh i think the errors were made in the follows of both drivers so adam had two off in the front uh essa had two off in the rear so from the judge's perspective we had one judge judge one more time uh two others voted for essa the one more time judge was stating that uh both drivers made kind of equal mistakes of two tires off and they wanted to see the run again um the other judge's favorite in in essa due to seeing him basically two tires off deeper in his own where adam was shallower in his own and being shallower in his own is not as favorable uh so from adam's perspective he saw um essa checkup on the bank uh which is outside of a decel zone which i'll explain it's like like it's hard to see on video i mean you guys might have been able to see it from the ink car gopro to me it almost looked like he grabbed the handbrake but later now i found out that he actually hit the wall a little bit because i saw the back end of his car kind of upset and my mind was like oh crap he's grabbing the handbrake i need to grab the handbrake so i don't hit him and what that kind of did is it drove me down and i was very far inside and like you said i dropped my two front wheels yes but even though i dropped two front wheels and he dropped two rear wheels uh i think the logic has potentially been on my lead i was coming down sooner on the bank because usually they judge lead for lead and then follow for follow uh i think it was it was on the verge of being protestable i think if it was one more time i don't think anyone would have been like oh my god that's a bogus one more time but i don't think it was an unfair call so i would have liked to see it one more time and like we said we debated uh protesting the call but looking at how pro 2 did where we had guys bouncing off the wall left and right and drivers behind them checking up there was no protester in that given that was in very rainy and you know bad weather uh this is still kind of that same situation it's a very gray area if it was protested it would be like by the skin of our teeth and uh i don't think it would have been a solid protest call um and that's why i chose not to protest that that call we'll just look forward to tomorrow i think it makes sense and like i've said before the beauty of this season is that we do get a second chance tomorrow i'll say just making the top 16 alone was like huge for me like i was borderline on the brink of tears just after the [ __ ] that we've been through with this car and me feeling like i i have no idea what i'm doing here like i was texting coletta i was like man like i think i just want to stick to drifting in japan this stuff is just this stuff's a little much for me so to be able to go out there and actually win a battle in pro one uh but it was huge for me i think it's huge for the team and everybody's super happy you know everyone's been working so hard and they're the reasons why i was able to do this and while i was able to get that win but i think more than anything all the people that are on the internet saying you don't belong here you don't belong here hopefully this shows them that like we're we're we're the real deal like we're doing everything we can i think it's going to take a little while to figure out the setups get acclimated to all the other drivers and like i said before this is the season to do it so yeah overall though i'm super pumped i'm excited for tomorrow hope you guys enjoyed this video when you say

Channel: Adam LZ

Views: 1,414,603

Rating: 4.9739642 out of 5

Keywords: adam lz, formula drift, pro 1, challenge, battle, tandem, drift, drifting, compeititon, competition, crash, bank, fastest, burnout, entry

Id: q--k9-1zXV0

Length: 26min 17sec (1577 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 27 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/_Slamz_]

Absolutely robbed against Essa, the FD judges bias is so obvious

[u/deadarsebruh427]

That silver Hino tow rig is some Yakuza type of deal. Absolutely cool.

FD judges robbing people of clear wins is uncool, they almost make it not worth the hassle of spending time and money doing FD, in my undecucated opinion.

[u/AfroPandaWarrior]

/u/diiviinemedia I have a challenge for you good sir, now that you master the LZ editing. Put in some option DVD sound effects for "on track" action?

On a another note, how bad on a scale from 11 to 10 is the new FormulaD "waiting-background" music?! Jeeez...

[u/black107]

As someone who has never watched FD before this, how do the competitors stand it being graded like it’s the fucking X-Games? I’m not well versed enough to comment on whether Adam should or shouldn’t have won that first round of 16 match (looked decent to me), just seems super arbitrary. He looked pretty bad today in the second ro16 match though.

[u/turbo999]

I have my opinions but just to see the conversations in this thread are awesome. I have always watched a few events here and there over the last 10 years and have always appreciated drifting. I have learned so much more about the ins and outs of pro drifting following Adam's channel and I enjoy the conversations. Any judged sport has its issues (cough UFC) but the more I learn about the sport the more I appreciate the nuances