This is a guest post by Nico Castronuevo.

This last Saturday around 30 of the Pacific Northwest’s best drift drivers put on a show for the fans at the 2nd annual Bigger Foot Bash/Team Tandem Competition at Pacific Raceways. Bigger Foot Bash marked the last drift event of the year at PGP and was one of the best of the season. From the weather to the people everything was perfect and how every drift event should be.

The day consisted of fast entries, massive angle, and door to door tandems. The drivers really showed what the Pacific Northwest had to offer.

Coming out of Portland, Formula Drift driver Kyle Pollard took the time out of his pro schedule to participate in the event. Unfortunately his differential blew during practice and he was unable to compete.

After a few hours of hot lapping the Team tandem competition started.

The teams were judged on style, angle, and how synchronized they were with each other.

At the end of the day Canadian based team Drift Union showed why they were the reigning champions and won the Team Tandem Competition for the 2nd time in a row.

This event was a great way to end the season and just makes me that much more excited for next season.

Yet another wet spring day in the Northwest could not stop hundreds of people from all over pulling their cars out of the garage to meet in North Seattle for Golden Gardens 2011. Packs of cars from Canada to Oregon left early in the morning cruised the I-5 corridor and the wet Seattle streets headed to a flat of paved parking lot by the Puget Sound. Cars lined to street for a mile south of the park and packed every available parking spot in the park and Shilshole Marina just south of the park. Cars ranged from projects in their beginning stages, rusted out old Datsun’s, fresh off the assembly line cars, tuners, drifters, and even a few miscellaneous trucks, 4×4’s and SUV’s. Showing off what they’re proud of with their cars, hoods up, rims shined up, washed and waxed and looking nice for everyone to admire and get ideas for their own projects. As the damp day moved on, cars rotated in and out of the show area as people came and went. People didn’t just park and walk through, a constant parade as cars cruised through the middle of the meet. With your average Northwest weather for spring the constant drizzle of rain didn’t hamper anyone’s spirit. More and more people came and went as if it wasn’t raining at all. The only problem I had with the rain was keeping the lens on my camera dry so I could take pictures. Other than that it is hard to beat a good car show on a Sunday.

Pictures to follow soon.

Pictures added.

What do car enthusiast do when they want to meet in a large number and show the community they can do something good for the kids?

Show up at the 272nd Park & Ride on December 13th @ 1:30 PM. It’s on I-5 just north of Federal Way, WA, EXIT 147. Bring an unwrapped NEW toy with you to donate to Toys for Tots. Once the group has assembled we’ll drive over to Pacific Raceways for a meet and greet as one large group. Car Clubs of the Pacific Northwest… Unite to benefit the less fortunate children in the area.

Last year we had more than 400 cars attend and this year is going to even bigger. With the facilities at Pacific Raceways opened up to us, we’ll be able to assemble and enjoy a meet and great without bothering shoppers (like last year).

Stay tuned to this website for more details on this years NWToyRun and view pictures and chat with those who attended years prior. We will be opening up a forum in the coming days to help with the organization.

Anyone who has photo’s from previous years… contact sephlar@nwtoyrun.com. We lost anything that was on the site in years prior so if you have the images and can round them up, we’d like to gather as many as we can.

This is going to be a BIG ONE. I want to see everybody there. I mean everybody. This is for the CHILDREN that are less fortunate. I don’t care what you bring, a hot wheel or a stuffed animal. Just an unopened toy. This will show the community that all the cars are not street racing all the time. This will be an open forum event. YOU NEED TO BE AT THIS ONE! LETS MAKE SOME KIDS HAVE A GREAT CHRISTMAS!

SATURDAY DEC.13th 1:30pm AT 272ND PARK N RIDE. EXIT 147. GONNA DRIVE OVER TO PACIFIC RACEWAYS. DROP OFF TOYS AND ENJOY THE PEOPLE AND CARS.