I have heard about all these awesome company interactions and reach outs over the past few months as the Twitter hype spreads across the globe. Well on my personal account twitter.com/joeyredmond I have an @reply from the Port of Long Beach. They told me great job on our Wrecked Magazine / Redbull Drifting Championship video and they even RT (retweet for you non tweepels) the link out to their friends. Awesome, great thanks to the Port of Long Beach twitter.com/portoflongbeach and Formula D for making the event a reality. Hopefully they let us come back next year and just maybe I won’t even have to take a bus next time, hey, I can dream right?
The guys at Formula D posted up our Redbull video project on the official Formula D blog. Thanks for the love guys and glad you appreciated the work that went into it. Formula D threw an amazing event at the Piers of Long Beach and we just wanted to provide an amazing video in return.
In case your not familiar with vimeo.com they allow for a huge resolution video to play and downloads for users (that can be disabled). If you happen to be a fan of Vimeo then please add us as a friend, Wrecked Magazine. Enjoy our Redbull Drifting video in all it’s goodness and awesomeness.
Redbull Championship Victory Chat with Rhys Millen
We got to chat it up with Rhys Millen right after he took home the Redbull Championship. Rhys talks about battling Dai in the finals, driving Vaughn Gittin Jr. right into the turn one wall, and other topics like his 2009 RMR race team. Make sure you watch this video until the very end, TRUST US!
Red Bull World Championship Teaser
A teaser video from the Red Bull World Championship. Check out the atmosphere around the Piers of Long Beach and the Drifting action. Will Roegge put together an amazing compilation that should get you excited about our content coming soon. This was a great exclusive piece we had put together for the Redbull weekend.
Right before SEMA 2008 we launched Issue 7 or Volume 2 Issue 1 of Wrecked Magazine. This is the first official product after our one year anniversary and we are excited to keep pushing forward. Justin Pawlak made our cover after having an amazing rookie season in Formula D with a 1st place finish at Formula D Mexico and a 3rd place finish at Irwindale Speedway. We got an exclusive interview with Ziptied All Star Bash founder Brian Harte as well inside the issue. We reviewed the Mad Sklls Rhys Millen DVD inside. We also really nailed it with my favorite section of the issue with our Top 10 Wrecks in Formula D history. We also added AEM as an advertiser for Issue 7.
Well one year ago today we put up the new site live 100% out of BETA. We have enjoyed the last year and all of our experiences with Drifting content from around the world. After we pull our face out of our yummy birthday cake we just want to take a second and recognize our sponsors that have helped make this year happen.
The December 2008 issue of XXL Magazine features Slide America artist Blu on the cover. He provided the music for the St. Louis Drifting section that we shot with the Adrenaline Motorsports crew and our federal trespassing allegations from an Illinois police officer. We are glad to see Blu moving up in the world and very exciting that as he grows into a star that he was a part of our film back in 2007. Good luck on all your future endeavors sir! His song featured in Slide America is “Nuts Hang” from the “Clock is Tickin” EP put out by Clockwork Records. For you automotive industry buffs that read our company blog, Clockwork Records is actually Belle 1’s label, so make sure to give those guys some congrats as well.
After this accident at HIN Nightshift Phoenix I have been in some debates on forums about the safety of media at events and I must say that some people’s replies have really blown me away. After watching this incident happen at HIN and witnessed other accidents in similar environments I think we need to grow up as a motor sports community already.
As someone who owns a company in the media business and does a ton of work around the automotive industry I just see something lacking in a major way. Don’t misunderstand me for a minute either, we have been to these same HIN demo’s and our crew has filmed them in the same fashion as the people above in this accident video. The link below is a video we made for NOS Energy Drink at Hot Import Nights: Nightshift New York. http://videos.streetfire.net/video/HIN-Nightshift-New-York_167950.htm
Now the shot you see from the Drifting demo seems very harmless because no accident had happened but that was filmed by a friend in film of ours who isn’t exactly an automotive media expert. If something were to of happened, he probably had no idea the danger he could of been in around that area. The other thing is anyone with a general credential can walk right up to that wall at HIN or into a hot zone of Formula D. Especially on the Formula D side I think they need to move into a teered system of media.
There is no reason many of the people cluttering the media pits at these events should be inside the area they are in and it just makes it generally more difficult for people who know what they are doing and have a purpose to get their job done. I have witnessed (especially this season at Formula D) some people just doing very dumb things on a hot track even though Formula D takes many great precautions for the media’s safety. Sadly Formula D cannot babysit everyone in the media section constantly observe them to assure they are not doing irrational things but they have to take the liability. Look at this perfect example from Formula D Long Beach. This kid during qualifying hopped on the k-rail and took photos for several runs until security ran and took him down.
This is the major issue I really see that is going on. When you receive a media pass at HIN, NOPI, BOTI, Formula D, Pro Am or any other organization no one delineates you from a official media partner, 5 year shooting professional, blogger, kid on Flickr, local forum or anything. This is where I think a teer system can help everyone’s headache and safety. I think bloggers and local forums/sites are a key and should never have to pay to enter an event but do they really need to be allowed inside the hot media area? Perhaps we need an approval/vouch system to get into the hot area or you have to attend an event first under a cold pass to understand more of what is going on?
Another main reason that got me motivated to right this post is the events that I witnessed at Irwindale Speedway this year. So Friday I woke up wayy early to attend a mandatory media meeting which was no problem. I was upset but swallowed my pride and rolled into this meeting even though I had to bolt out to LAX right after and then head right back to the track. Well after being told for a good amount of time the basics we left and were told we had to come to the meeting tomorrow. I show up to the next meeting on Saturday which wasn’t as early but seemed as brutal time wise. The basics were like don’t run out on the track, don’t be an idiot, stand here, don’t stand here. Well during the main event what does someone do? They jump right across the k-rail while track is hot. The course worker spots them and they did get yelled at immediately. It’s like really though? What if something happened to the guy? Was he really someone worth having the liability of being in a hot zone of the race track? Hopefully he will not be allowed to return after a brash action like that took place. With all of this being said, I want to hop off my soapbox by saying that most of these concerns I am bringing here because I hope we can get this stuff solved before a fatality is caused in the sport. That I feel would be tragic for all of us in the community. If anyone would wish to contact me I am open to help with any way to improve safety at venues from grassroots to the professional series. Just drop a line through the contact form and I will get back to you.
With our live blogging through twitter at Irwindale we joined the likes of hot topics like Obama, Sarah Palin, and SNL over the weekend with our trending topic on twitter #formulad. The live blog which was updated by our staff and open for any fans to chime in was a huge success. http://wreckedmagazine.com/twitter/formulad08/ had tons of peopled tuned in during the main event of Formula D to see what was going on in real time from a fans perspective and our staff’s. It is some pretty impressive company. We are ready to run another promo during SEMA 2008 that people can live blog activities with the #sema tag.
These were the trending topics on Saturday that we got Formula D to rank with:
SNL, Red Sox, Rays, LSU, #formulad, Sarah Palin, Obama, ACORN, #RedSox, Texas
November 29th, 2008 by 
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