What started as a request from our Burn-Out Forum, ended up being a
GREAT BIG BASH! 250+ DRP viewers filled the HOLODECK (and over flowed out in to the
parking lot!).
To say that we were overwhelmed by the attendance would be such an understatement. With a
skeleton crew made of a couple of friends and my wife, every minute of our time was
dedicated to our gracious visitors.
Up front, my wife (Mai Mai) and friend (VT Roman) greeted our visitors. They also sold
over 150 raffle tickets! The tickets were accompanied with the NEW DRP sticker as well as
stickers from Outlast Batteries and Nodalo's Mufflers and Headers. Team after team
streamed through the doors of the HOLODECK. And when things got crowded, people would hang
out in the parking lot for an "Impromptu" Car Show!
Stickers, stickers and more stickers... |
Three pool tables were
reserved for play, by MATONETICS. Guests got to play for FREE! But since there were so
many people, others had to play on the remaining tables on their own tab.
The 20 networked computers were equally filled. Teams played network games with each
other. I guess this was their chance to "virtually" blow each other to bits
(elsewhere other than the Burn-Out
Forum)!
One of the main attractions was the DRP Reaction Time Game. Utilizing a Race America Drag Race timing system
and custom made (by the "Man in the Red Cap") accelerator pedals, Teams ran head
to head in reaction time competition! Even people who don't drive taught some seasoned
racers a thing or two about reaction times! Some of the avid players were from DOOM,
Wheels Auto Performance, Team R-Spec and
Team R-Mode.As everyone was enjoying themselves, meeting people from other teams or
playing the games available to them, the extremely delectable GRACE from REMY MARTIN
served the visitors with 5 bottles of REMY SILVER...by the SHOT! Needless to say, NO ONE
turned her down. I would be remise if I failed to report that our intrepid photographer
didn't get more than side tracked from his duties by the allure of GRACE. He even
volunteered to carry the serving tray for her! But his efforts didn't go un-noticed as he
got the cellphone number of GRACE!!! (way to go JUDE!!!) |
Nodalos's Stainless Steel mufflers |
The highlight of the night had to be the
DRP HORSEPOWER RAFFLE. With over 60,000Php worth of raffle prizes! Due
to last minute ticket sales, the raffle started 5 past 12am. One by one tickets were
pulled from a fish bowl and the winner of the prize was announced. The biggest surprise of the night was the Multi-Prize winner, Reggie
Ramos, from Team R-Spec. He won most of
the coveted prizes. From the Fremuff muffler with a
removable baffle to the Shell Velocity Duffel bag, Reggie's tickets just kept on getting
picked! I even mixed the fish bowl of tickets several times just to make sure. But, time
after time, his tickets kept on finding their way out of the bowl.
One of the rules of the raffle was that you had to be
present to claim your prize, other wise, it would be forfeited and another ticket would be
drawn. Those few from Team Extreme and Wheels Auto Performance, who left early (hmmm, was
there a race somewhere?), you guys let go of some really cool prizes!
All of the raffle winners bought multiple tickets. The lesson here: Next
time, BUY LOTS OF THEM! Just ask Reggie... it DOES work! (he bought 20 raffle tickets) |
Shell Velocity Prizes |
The grand prize of the night was a
gift certificate from ATI
Racing for its Pro Series Head Work service, worth a whopping 17,000Php.
To make things a bit more interesting, we decided to pick 8 tickets from the bowl and then
had the lucky souls compete for the prize in a QUICK 8 Reaction Time
Elimination round!!! And, YES, Reggie Ramos was one of those picked for
this game.
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An Outlast
Battery... |
Fremuff upgraded
its pledge with a racing muffler with a removable baffle. |
The ever so yummy,
GRACE, posing with Erick Nodalo. |
And another premium prize in hand... Redline
Racing's Dennis Ong handed over the prize from Outlast Batteries |
The ATTORNEY posing with his raffle prize from
Shell Velocity |
Two by two, the combatants faced each
other at the "tree", in a "challenge the winner" elimination. In their
excitement, most of the racers "redlighted" miserably! Down to the last two
competitors, Mike Santi of Team R-Mode
and Boboy Rabe from Fusion R, faced off for the championship round. Mike noticed that
everyone redlighted, so he decided to wait for Boboy to depress the accelerator pedal
before he did. Great strategy, as that was what led him to victory!
After the raffle, Redline Racing's
Dennis Ong bought a round of drinks for all the visitors! As you can see from the photos,
everyone had their fair share of racer's fuel!
A week's worth of work came to a close pretty quickly for us at DRP. All the planning,
phone calls and travelling around collecting banners and raffle prizes was finally done.
Judging from the numerous emails and forum entries, it seems that all who attended were
satisfied and happy (especially Reggie Ramos!).Special thanks go out to our sponsors. Without their GENEROUS donations, the
party would not have been such a success. |
Quick 8 Combatants: Mike Santi of R-Mode and
Boboy Rabe of Fusion R |
ATI Racing, AutoPlus Sportszentrum, A+ Audio, FREMUFF RACING MUFFLERS,
GASPEED AutoColorKraft,
HOLODECK, Matonetics, NETWORX Auto Detailing, Nodalo's Mufflers and Headers,
Outlast Batteries, Redline Racing,
R-MODE, Racing Zone and
Shell Velocity.
Thank you to ALL who attended. And to
those who missed the party... well, there's always next time! |
Reggie Ramos with one of his MANY prizes. Erick
Nodalo graciously gave out the FREMUFF muffler... thanks Erick, for being cool about that
:-) |
Vincente Peņa of A+ Audio and The Quickest Man
in the Philippines (in drag racing!) with the lovely GRACE |
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