After mechanical issues ended Round 1 prematurely for Marc Landreville, his car and his team were back and ready for Round 2. Round 2 took place at the Autodrome ST-Eustache which is actually one of Marc’s sponsors. It is his home track and with no chance of rain it was going to be a great event.

Round 2 was special since everything (practice, qualification and competition) for both Pro and Pro Am took place in one day so his team was on site early to set everything up.

With the schedule so tight even Lacroix Tuning model Lisa Masse was helping unload the trailer.

Unloading didn’t take long and the car was pretty much ready to go – Just in time for the drivers meeting.

While Marc headed off to the drivers meeting his crew buttoned up the car for the practice session.

Marc always stays serious at the drivers meetings…

After the drivers meeting it was the Pro Am’s practice session so Marc took it easy and stayed hydrated… it was hot out!

Here he is chatting with one of his good friends and Pro Am driver Joel Coutu.

Once the Pro Am drivers practice session was over it was time for the Pro class to get on track… This made Marc happy!

Being his home track as usual Marc did not go easy for the first runs.

Even in practice Marc was having some good tandem runs with Peter C.

Every time Marc would make a run the crowd would go crazy.

He was also producing some of the most smoke all event.

Before we knew it, it was time for qualifications to start. Marc had two good runs getting him into the 2nd qualification spot

After qualification there was a short break on track, just enough time for fans to get some autographs signed.

And pick up one of Marc’s new signature “All Out” T-shirts.

One lucky fan even got to sit in the race car!

The perks of having good sponsors…

After the break it was time to line up for the top 16 drivers introductions.

Drifting around a brand new Scion FRS just for the fun of it before the start of the top 16 battles!

Marc’s first battle was against Jonathan Thiffault. Jonathan did a really good job chasing Marc but made a few corrections in order to keep up.

On Marc’s chase run he stayed with Jonathan through out the whole track… Even shed his bumper while at it… Marc moved on

Next match up Marc faced Francis Tasse in his monster 750HP Super Charged V8 S14. On Marc’s lead run he was able to put a good amount of distance on Francis giving him an edge going into the chase run.

On his chase run Marc stuck to Francis like glue and sealed the deal moving him on to the final 4 battle.

Top 4 battle saw Marc face Tom Tom. Marc’s lead run was good and Tom Tom actually hit the wall behind him.

On the chase run Tom Tom’s hood flew open right before initiation… You can see it in the photo if you look hard enough! Marc was awarded the win.

Time for the battle for the top podium spot.. This should of been an epic battle as Marc was facing Pat Cyr. Marc and Pat have a long history of facing off against each other and the show these two put on is usually amazing. On the first run Marc was on Pat through out the track, he got a little too close and actually hit Pat where they both lost drift.

On Marc’s lead lap he went all out and initiated like a mad man causing Pat to spin out behind him! This made the battle go into a one more time. They set off again and on his chase run Marc’s throttle body cable let go just like at Round 1. On his lead run he knew he had to go all out to get the win. Both drivers initiated and Marc pushed a bit to hard and slammed the outside wall and ground to a stop completely down the track.

And with that Marc got 2nd place!

The car was pretty heavily damaged but will be back for Round 3.

Even though it was not the perfect way to end the event 2nd place is still really good and a lot better then the last round.

Marc would like to thank his team and all his sponsors.

Lacroix tuning
Bar le garage
Restaurants les 3 brasseurs
Moteurs national
Canada tires
Dai alloys
Standard suspension
Synergie produit de soudure
Mishimoto
Autodome st-eustache
Lucky 7
Gulf
Vipec North America
Pro-fusion
R-l auto repair
Ora cosmetique
Transmition bélisle

Check out the official vid from Round 2 from the guys at QDM

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A few days ago I was invited out to the Shannonville racetrack which is a few hours outside of Toronto for some shake down runs of Dave Briggs new 350z. Dave has been running a S14 in the DMCC series and many American Pro Am events for a few years. With the step up to Formula D it was also time to step up the ride.

My day started out at 4am when I had to get up and make my way to my buddy Kevins place to then make the 3.5 hour ride to the track. We were both pretty excited to see this car run since we have both followed the build up since the start. When we first got to the track it there was a lack of sound.. We then saw the 350z limping back into the pits..Turns out a little mechanical issue put a pause on the testing. It was not a huge deal and while the crew worked on the car I was able to take the the time to get a good look of the car.

The ASD parts are so nice..

Cant beat running HRE’s!

The car is a sick Candy Red.. Looks soo good in the sun.

Dave was taking it easy while his crew got the car back into running order..

But he got bored of that and decided to take his dads car for a little spin on track..

By the time Dave came back into the pits the car was pretty much good to go. Just hearing that Nascar V8 start up was insane! With that Dave and his crew official started their test session.. With the first round of FD fast approaching they want to get the car dialed in as fast as they can.

I was amazed with how much smoke the Falkens were producing.

The Shannonville race track is pretty cool because of all the different lay outs that are available..Dave was able to try the car in a few different track set ups to see how the car would react.

Near the end of the day Dave was getting some crazy angle.

That made his crew chief happy..lol

With some more seat time Dave will be pretty much set for the first round..and it seems like I will be following them there..so it should be good!

Every monday night my team ( Team Overdosed ) hold a car meet called the JDM Mondays..Its a huge meet that has gotten even bigger over the years ( you can read the whole story in the next issue of PAS Mag ) and Im there every monday shooting the cars.

Even tho the meets are called “JDM Mondays” All types of cars show up. Like this flat silver AMG.

Its crazy that every week about 500 or more cars show up to these meets.

Check out the gallery from last night.

Our car season has not been too great so far.we have been getting a lot of rain so a bunch of the events Id usually be shooting got cancelled.. BUT I did not forget about my project and finally had a chance to whip out my Canon point and shoot and try it to shoot some drifting.



I was not able to shoot to long with it since it did start to rain and I dont trust it in the wet as well as my SLR bodies..lol Again I find this helps to show that its not the camera but the person holding it that makes the difference.

With spring finally here I can start updating my blog again! We had a really crappy few weeks were a bunch of the weekly events I shoot got cancelled because of rain.

Check out the galleries of what Ive been up to so far this spring.

http://montrealracing.com/vbgallery/browseimages.php?c=1003

Hey guys..getting more and more content up on my page.. check it out

http://www.facebook.com/pages/JagImaging/183253467144

I was bored one night so figured to try out some light painting with my little Canon PS. The light painting is not 100% good but it was freezing out ( -17 ) so I did what I could before I couldnt feel my hands anymore.. Again..just showing that its skill( the little bit I have..lol ) that can pull off photos and not the camera..

Well after doing some tests with the camera I found a slight problem. The smallest aperture is only f8 which causes a problem when trying to do panning shots during the middle of the day.. My solution was to simply ( so I thought) add a ND or a polarizing filter to the front of the lens to cut down the light entering the camera which would let me shoot slower with out blowing out the exposure. There was only one slight issue…my nice little Canon point and shoot does not have any filter threads on the lens and Canon does not make any adapters either..I found one online but it really did not look all that great anyway..soo I decided to make my own.. With some scrap pieces of plastic, some ND paper for hot lights and some crazy glue I made myself a little filter holder.

I does look ghetto but it works great and also allows me to add more ND filters if I want to really cut light out..for let say a point and shoot rig shot

With it being winter and all I do not have that many chances to shoot for my “project” has been going slow.. I did have the chance to shoot a rally cross but it was freaking cold so I was not able to get as many shots as I wanted. So far Im VERY pleased with how everything is turning out with my not so expensive camera. One thing I have found is that the cam does not have a small enough aperture to pull off good panning shots in day time. Im going to make a filter holder for the front of it so that I can add a ND filter or two..Check out a few shots I took with it at the rally cross..There is also a few fun pics I took in my back yard and one shot I took at a press conference.. I was zoomed out to the max and the lighting was bad..but I still think it came out good..

Check out the new issue of Wrecked Magazine ( since your on this site Im sure you did already ) Id like to thank Joey for doing a feature on me..Its really cool!!