I learned a lot about myself from this round and It really helped me become more confident in my tandems.
First: Alex Grimm
Second: Adam Knapik
Third: Sean Adriano
The night was full of awesome battles. I would start the night off by battling Micah Diaz which was the most fun battle of the night. On Micah's follow he made a slight mistake coming into the connector which ultimately gave me the win, but his chase was great!
My great 8 battle was against top qualifier Jason Kim. During our first battle each of us made mistakes on our follows which lead to a one more time. But after I put on an impressive follow thanks to Jason's great driving I would take the win.
My top 4 battle was my worst of the night. Sean Adriano pulled a big lead on me from the start and kept it throughout the run, however on my lead he made a mistake in the connector which gave me the win.
In the final I got plain lucky. Adam Knapik and I battled twice due to a one more time. During the first battle in my lead run Adam made a mistake coming into the connector and straightened out a bit. On my follow I initiated really well and was close to Adam in the beginning of the run, but his car is so much faster than mine he just continuously increased the gap through out the run to the point that it was an inactive chase.
When the second battle started Adam would be leading. It was a similar story, we started close but he just walked away from me. However, during my lead Adam's car had a failure which poured oil over one of his front tires causing him to almost spin on entry, he straightened which gave me the win.
Huge thanks to David Karey from AMDRIFT.com for taking these amazing pictures and just being an awesome dude! Check out their full gallery from the event here ---> Full Gallery from Round 3
