For Immediate Release – Redondo Beach CA, July 24, 2009 – PM Racing, and its driver Patrick Mordaunt wereheading into round four of the Formula Drift Championships on a mission. The tagline,“All In” for this Las Vegas hosted event .Couldn’t be truer for the determined PM Racingteam. After spinning out, in a fearsome one more time battle with veteran Taka Aono inRd. 3 at New Jersey. Mordaunt and his team were optimistic about their return to “SinCity” Optimism would later turn to frustration, as the team ran into a major technicalissue. With the PM Racing/Toyo Tires/Wrecked Magazine Nissan S14. While the teamwas preparing the car to hit the track for its practice session on Thursday, they haddiscovered that they were having some issues with the cars differential. After placing, aquick call to our contact at KAAZ USA to order a replacement. Mordaunt and his crewcould do nothing but wait for their arrival the next morning with the needed parts.Unfortunately as the PM Racing crew was removing the diff, they also discovered thatboth axles were damaged. So to ensure, that broken axles would not be an issue in thecars performance during competition. They were replaced as well. With new foundconfidence in his Nissan S14, Mordaunt would go on to qualify 21
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.Going into Saturdays competition. Mordaunt found himself going up again Kyle Mohan.A former teammate, and good friend. With temperatures soaring well above onehundred degrees Fahrenheit, it was clear that the intense heat was taking its toll on thecompetitor’s cars, and the track. Which, had caused the course to be slicker than usual.Mordaunt’s top 32 battle with his friend Kyle Mohan had turned out to be one of theyoung driver’s most exciting, and crowd pleasing battles of the season. With the runbeing called two “one more times”. Both drivers appeared to be neck and neck witheach other. On the last run that had Mordaunt chasing Mohan’s RX-8, Mordaunt wasable to get within inches of Mohan’s door as they passed the first clipping point. Thisresulted in Mordaunt walking away with the victory. His next match up would be withSignal Auto’s Kazu Hayashida in the Mazora Nissan S15. First lap out Mordaunt leadsHayashida creating a massive gap between the two competitors. With no 3
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gear inHayashida’s car. Following Hayashida on the chase lap would prove to be an issue. As
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