Gatebil at Vålerbanen (VIDEO)
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Gatebil at Vålerbanen (VIDEO)

Team BLACK SMOKEs first competition 2015, Gatebil at Vålerbanen, Norway. Teemu also attended the NM series competition and got to Top 16 but no further. NM competition results: 1.Ismail Salih 2.Fredrik Myhre 3.Kenneth Nornes In Vålersladden Teemu qualified 8th, the finals were not attended as we had to leave for the ferry. VIDEO BY PICTUREFACTORY.FI…

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Trip to Gatebil Vålerbanen + Pictures

Last weekend we had our first real race-trip as we were competing in NM-drifting (Norwegian Championship) and Vålersladden at Vålerbanen in Norway. It’s quite nerve wrecking to go on the first trip every year. First we drove down to Turku to catch the ferry over to Stockholm. We did a big miss planning our trip…

Black Smoke season 2014 in hindsight, part 2.
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Black Smoke season 2014 in hindsight, part 2.

Read Part 1 HERE, if you have not read it yet. After the midsummer event at Kemora, Finland we had two weeks to make the car ready for Gatebil, the main event in Rudskogen. In just a few days we got the cummins injectors for the DI engine, which we were told would fit

Black Smoke season 2014 in hindsight, part 1.
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Black Smoke season 2014 in hindsight, part 1.

Long time since we last made a post. I thought we should do a season recap of the season 2014 and why it went like it did. This season was the toughest yet, it really tested us. Still it was also the most fun.

Report 1/2014
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Report 1/2014

The whole 2013 we were struggling with the engine. For 2014 we were supposed to be driving with another engine but as usual nothing went according to the plans. When we realised that we were not going to be able to make the direct injected engine ready in time we decided to make a backup engine to start off the season in time.