I'm really hoping to get on the track and do well today if I can figure out this misfiring issue I've been having I'll be able to compete against some other drivers that are more experienced than me, which is going to be a challenge but I think it's what I need to push myself to improve. If I don't make it into the competition, at least I'll know for sure and can work on my driving skills in a safer environment. But if I do end up qualifying, I'll be able to get this issue worked out and focus on racing.

So, I've been going around the track trying to find a good line that will allow me to qualify I've been doing some trial runs and seeing how much speed I can gain by making small adjustments to my driving style. It's not easy, but I'm determined to get it right. One of the things I've noticed is that if I cut around this one section just so, I'll be able to get used to it and feel more comfortable behind the wheel. Making a few pops and bangs as I enter the turn will help me build up speed and get on throttle sooner.

The main judge criteria for the competition is to show excitement and enthusiasm while racing, which means I need to push myself to drive aggressively and try new things. I think it's better to overshoot my target than to undercook it, because at least then I'll have the opportunity to correct my mistake and make up time on the track. I'm going to try and go as hot as possible while still being able to get on throttle quickly.

I've been filming myself running laps around the track, trying to get a better sense of how to drive more smoothly and consistently. I've also been working on my braking and acceleration techniques, trying to find a balance between power and control. I feel like if I can lay down some solid lead laps tomorrow, that's really how I'll be able to compete against the other drivers.

The competition is going to be tough, especially since one of the other drivers has a very lightweight chassis that makes it hard for me to keep up with. But I'm determined to add more grit and finesse to my driving style in order to overcome this challenge. Today was a good test run, and I feel like I learned a lot about how to drive on this track. I had some close calls and near-misses, but overall it was a fun day of racing.

Now that qualifying is over, we'll be able to see how our cars performed and make any necessary adjustments before the competition tomorrow. I'm excited to get started again and put everything I learned today into practice. I'll just have to add more aggression and confidence to my driving style in order to take on the best drivers.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe're finishing loading up and strapping everything down look at how crazy this is it's a whole big rig with a chaser you're the chaser little sambhar respond a little truck this thing is sick there's beautiful weather out here so anyway we are about to head to the track it's about a two hour drive there and my whole logic is we're probably meeting the track around midnight rather than drive two hours back to Portland and two hours there at 6 a.m. in the morning and that really isn't much sleep I'm just gonna stay at the track so originally I was gonna stay in the jzx 100 but then I thought if I unload the wheels I could probably actually lay down on this so I would see if I can find the moving blankets and then that'll be my but I should also clarify that there are no hotels or place to stay nearby so this is the best option but anyway I'm gonna wrap the video up here because we got to get out of here I'm gonna try to edit this on the truck on the way so I can get a video of tomorrow cuz you know I gotta stay on that daily grind so anyway should be fun I'm excited I Drive some daisy exes and just have fun super DS always cool gonna drive with a lot of my friends I don't get to drive with often a lot of cool cars and a lot of great drivers so anyway that's all key bye I don't know what its gonna be like tomorrow so I wanted to show you guys real quick the little sleeping arrangement I got inside of the sandbar it's actually pretty cute I think it worked out pretty well I got your rug folded up some blankets and pillows it's pretty nice good way to start the video considering the fact that I slept in the back of a mini minivan I actually slept great but hey it got so cold here in the morning I super underestimated it I should have grabbed like five more blankets like it I don't think you do justice by like licking the windshield or anything but it's like I get my hands frozen that's I quit YouTube looks like where I'm pitted up I'm kind of a little know where some people over there like like all the cool kids are over there with their little tents I'm just kind of chilling back here I'm a music mañana up we're gonna go do some practice laps I'm a little bit nervous about the power band on this car was the turbo doesn't really come on until like four grand and it only revs at like 7500 so pending on how slow the corners are it might be tricky and it might be better off actually driving the stock jzx 90 so we'll see I'm just gonna come to you use this as a tester to get a feel for the car and see what is the best option for me all right looks like we're strolling out on a track I want to solve this for a suede wheel it's very slippery with my gloves see what I'm worried about is down here in the second-year stuff and I'm gonna have to clutch kick like crazy to keep it rpms up because it tightens up a lot so it's gonna be really important but I take the widest possible line and stay in throttle as long as I can so we'll see how it works the worst case scenario I got the 90s back up I'm just gonna cruise on this first one and kind of go slow just because I don't want to go check it in super fast and have no idea how the car is gonna work seems like it's hiccuping a little bit hopefully I get this I don't know if it's gonna be something I'll be able to figure out since we weren't able to get access to a laptop so I'll try another lap see if it clears up if not I'll probably just go run and grab that 90 seems like maybe in high boost it won't do it which is weird doesn't make any sense but I switched it over to high boost well chief the shop I will give the high boost map a try this time and see if it still breaks up figure it's worth a shot sounds better now you can't say for certain but we're hoping that the issue and why it's breaking up is because of the plugs if you look at them they have all this orange crap on them when you use the race gas additive like Trenton uses it just destroys plugs so Polly a fresh set will get us through this event let's hope the plug to do the trick this time still breaking up I think I can drive around it I just feel guilty making all these weird poppy gross noises and stuff but I don't really know another solution right now it's a Jay Z it can take it I just got to remind myself that I've got to remind myself that today the goal is just to qualify so I'll just try to drive around their shoes and then hopefully by some time tomorrow before actual competition if I do end up qualifying I'll be able to get the weird misfiring stuff worked out I'm gonna try going the proper around this one where you have to like cut around here just so I can get used to it getting better now making so many poppy noses but we're aggressive and they can tell what I'm driving around it so well if you don't get us qualified making a little pops and bangs and hiccups and surges and jay-z please don't break on me only mean well trying to get on throttle sooner overcooked it a little bit but I have to overcook it to figure out under cooker right so he overcooked it but we still saved it but it's exciting the the main judge criteria is they want to see excitement I don't want to see a boring entry I think overshooting is better than under shooting if you ask me all right I'm gonna now go as hot but try to get on throttle soon or on that first entry maybe not throw it backwards but maybe just a nice solid 90 just to set myself up well that felt good that was a perfect line if I could do that every time it sexist I feel like I'm almost barely in boost in third but that's feeling good I feel like if we've gotten an hour and a half of hope in qualifying where they just kind of judge our runs I can definitely confidently qualify for tomorrow and hopefully get the issue sorted out with the car I don't know how competitive it's gonna be trying to follow a little nimble s Jessie with this thing but if I can lay down some solid lead laps that's really how I won super d Midwest so a lot of it actually comes down to lead runs even though follow is where I shine I just got to make sure I can get comfortable inconsistent and I think that this is a good tool for that all right so this is qualifying now and I've just kind of been doing the same run over and over and over again but I figured I'll film one just again they give you guys an idea I'm throwing it pretty aggressively I'm also using the same lime it'll be using for the lead run where I go through the chicane not going insanely fast but I'm trying to do it so I can get on the throttle and just be in power as soon as possible I'll show you guys what I mean by that the builds of speed good for this little chicane as fast as I can try not to fall out a boost a little bit too I overcooked down a little bit it was fun okay yeah go faster yeah okay I'm going off-track okay they want to see faster is what they want to see drifting so fun I feel bad because my friend judge is nerve to tell me that I'm not going fast enough how's that for your judges you don't want me to write the risk or death I'll write the risk of death I'll tell you what yeah all right so this is open drift right now we're pulling up behind baby Jason we've got a four-car train going on as he's running over Julian and I don't know I thought it'd be cool to get some practice he's a really really good driver in his car super fast so it'll be interesting to see other jzx stacks up against a really fast lightweight ass chassis so I'm excited entry was a little bit off but still the cars not as slow as I thought it's just hard to be quick with my movements I have to be more like predictive I guess that was Harry that was baller safe that was a good save did no one hit each other right do it in back that was gay I was like that was dicey no I didn't hit anybody dude it's like amazing how like a group of drivers that know what to do cannot get into a pileup yeah they're like I'm not gonna slam on the brakes that was I don't think that was in purpose but that was sick I'd say today went pretty well I definitely don't have much confidence in the jiseok's 100 at first but I kind of worked around the issues and even though it's breaking up a little bit it seems to be okay hopefully by tomorrow we'll be able to get a computer out to it and figure out what's going on but I feel pretty confident for the comp tomorrow I'm just gonna have to add some more grit because I find it hard to follow the lighter as chassis is and stuff but we had some pretty dicey runs in there and some pretty fun stuff I don't know if I narrate it or what but I don't know it's fun so you be out here for anything for I try and let me drive his car and you guys are excited for the come tomorrow because I qualified I realize didn't say that but I didwe're finishing loading up and strapping everything down look at how crazy this is it's a whole big rig with a chaser you're the chaser little sambhar respond a little truck this thing is sick there's beautiful weather out here so anyway we are about to head to the track it's about a two hour drive there and my whole logic is we're probably meeting the track around midnight rather than drive two hours back to Portland and two hours there at 6 a.m. in the morning and that really isn't much sleep I'm just gonna stay at the track so originally I was gonna stay in the jzx 100 but then I thought if I unload the wheels I could probably actually lay down on this so I would see if I can find the moving blankets and then that'll be my but I should also clarify that there are no hotels or place to stay nearby so this is the best option but anyway I'm gonna wrap the video up here because we got to get out of here I'm gonna try to edit this on the truck on the way so I can get a video of tomorrow cuz you know I gotta stay on that daily grind so anyway should be fun I'm excited I Drive some daisy exes and just have fun super DS always cool gonna drive with a lot of my friends I don't get to drive with often a lot of cool cars and a lot of great drivers so anyway that's all key bye I don't know what its gonna be like tomorrow so I wanted to show you guys real quick the little sleeping arrangement I got inside of the sandbar it's actually pretty cute I think it worked out pretty well I got your rug folded up some blankets and pillows it's pretty nice good way to start the video considering the fact that I slept in the back of a mini minivan I actually slept great but hey it got so cold here in the morning I super underestimated it I should have grabbed like five more blankets like it I don't think you do justice by like licking the windshield or anything but it's like I get my hands frozen that's I quit YouTube looks like where I'm pitted up I'm kind of a little know where some people over there like like all the cool kids are over there with their little tents I'm just kind of chilling back here I'm a music mañana up we're gonna go do some practice laps I'm a little bit nervous about the power band on this car was the turbo doesn't really come on until like four grand and it only revs at like 7500 so pending on how slow the corners are it might be tricky and it might be better off actually driving the stock jzx 90 so we'll see I'm just gonna come to you use this as a tester to get a feel for the car and see what is the best option for me all right looks like we're strolling out on a track I want to solve this for a suede wheel it's very slippery with my gloves see what I'm worried about is down here in the second-year stuff and I'm gonna have to clutch kick like crazy to keep it rpms up because it tightens up a lot so it's gonna be really important but I take the widest possible line and stay in throttle as long as I can so we'll see how it works the worst case scenario I got the 90s back up I'm just gonna cruise on this first one and kind of go slow just because I don't want to go check it in super fast and have no idea how the car is gonna work seems like it's hiccuping a little bit hopefully I get this I don't know if it's gonna be something I'll be able to figure out since we weren't able to get access to a laptop so I'll try another lap see if it clears up if not I'll probably just go run and grab that 90 seems like maybe in high boost it won't do it which is weird doesn't make any sense but I switched it over to high boost well chief the shop I will give the high boost map a try this time and see if it still breaks up figure it's worth a shot sounds better now you can't say for certain but we're hoping that the issue and why it's breaking up is because of the plugs if you look at them they have all this orange crap on them when you use the race gas additive like Trenton uses it just destroys plugs so Polly a fresh set will get us through this event let's hope the plug to do the trick this time still breaking up I think I can drive around it I just feel guilty making all these weird poppy gross noises and stuff but I don't really know another solution right now it's a Jay Z it can take it I just got to remind myself that I've got to remind myself that today the goal is just to qualify so I'll just try to drive around their shoes and then hopefully by some time tomorrow before actual competition if I do end up qualifying I'll be able to get the weird misfiring stuff worked out I'm gonna try going the proper around this one where you have to like cut around here just so I can get used to it getting better now making so many poppy noses but we're aggressive and they can tell what I'm driving around it so well if you don't get us qualified making a little pops and bangs and hiccups and surges and jay-z please don't break on me only mean well trying to get on throttle sooner overcooked it a little bit but I have to overcook it to figure out under cooker right so he overcooked it but we still saved it but it's exciting the the main judge criteria is they want to see excitement I don't want to see a boring entry I think overshooting is better than under shooting if you ask me all right I'm gonna now go as hot but try to get on throttle soon or on that first entry maybe not throw it backwards but maybe just a nice solid 90 just to set myself up well that felt good that was a perfect line if I could do that every time it sexist I feel like I'm almost barely in boost in third but that's feeling good I feel like if we've gotten an hour and a half of hope in qualifying where they just kind of judge our runs I can definitely confidently qualify for tomorrow and hopefully get the issue sorted out with the car I don't know how competitive it's gonna be trying to follow a little nimble s Jessie with this thing but if I can lay down some solid lead laps that's really how I won super d Midwest so a lot of it actually comes down to lead runs even though follow is where I shine I just got to make sure I can get comfortable inconsistent and I think that this is a good tool for that all right so this is qualifying now and I've just kind of been doing the same run over and over and over again but I figured I'll film one just again they give you guys an idea I'm throwing it pretty aggressively I'm also using the same lime it'll be using for the lead run where I go through the chicane not going insanely fast but I'm trying to do it so I can get on the throttle and just be in power as soon as possible I'll show you guys what I mean by that the builds of speed good for this little chicane as fast as I can try not to fall out a boost a little bit too I overcooked down a little bit it was fun okay yeah go faster yeah okay I'm going off-track okay they want to see faster is what they want to see drifting so fun I feel bad because my friend judge is nerve to tell me that I'm not going fast enough how's that for your judges you don't want me to write the risk or death I'll write the risk of death I'll tell you what yeah all right so this is open drift right now we're pulling up behind baby Jason we've got a four-car train going on as he's running over Julian and I don't know I thought it'd be cool to get some practice he's a really really good driver in his car super fast so it'll be interesting to see other jzx stacks up against a really fast lightweight ass chassis so I'm excited entry was a little bit off but still the cars not as slow as I thought it's just hard to be quick with my movements I have to be more like predictive I guess that was Harry that was baller safe that was a good save did no one hit each other right do it in back that was gay I was like that was dicey no I didn't hit anybody dude it's like amazing how like a group of drivers that know what to do cannot get into a pileup yeah they're like I'm not gonna slam on the brakes that was I don't think that was in purpose but that was sick I'd say today went pretty well I definitely don't have much confidence in the jiseok's 100 at first but I kind of worked around the issues and even though it's breaking up a little bit it seems to be okay hopefully by tomorrow we'll be able to get a computer out to it and figure out what's going on but I feel pretty confident for the comp tomorrow I'm just gonna have to add some more grit because I find it hard to follow the lighter as chassis is and stuff but we had some pretty dicey runs in there and some pretty fun stuff I don't know if I narrate it or what but I don't know it's fun so you be out here for anything for I try and let me drive his car and you guys are excited for the come tomorrow because I qualified I realize didn't say that but I did\n"