AIRSTRIP ATTACK
For what started as a fun get-together amongst like-minded and similar- “For years we’d been going out at four or five in the morning and doing our
hobby-having friends, Jason Huang and Ryan Fisher’s Shift-S3ctor half-mile thing,” says Haung. “But the cops had really started to pay attention to
shootouts have quickly become one of the nation’s premiere trap speed what we were doing. All of a sudden we weren’t just worried about tearing
events. Founded in 2012 when Haung and Fisher sought out a safe alterna- up our cars or someone getting hurt, we were worried about getting into
tive to high-speed roll racing on rural stretches of California’s interstate serious trouble. So, Ryan and I sat down and started talking about what we
highways, Shift-S3ctor has grown rapidly – expanding from the duo privately could do to keep racing, but do it legitimately and safely.”
renting a race track for a day of fun with friends, to hosting a single race
at a low commercial use airstrip to organizing a series of 7 events up and The first get together was held at Willow Springs International Raceway in
down the West Coast in 2016.
Rosamond, California – a 2.5 road course. “The track people asked us what
HIGHLY EMOTIVE
It’s not only the cars that run hot, as the
people gathered - largely - have a connection
or special appreciation for the men and
women behind the wheel of these cars, as
evident by Richard Fowler’s friends and family
who went wild when he set the standing
half-mile record with a 247.25 mph blast in his
2015 Lamborghini Huracan.
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