For years, Demaras Racing has competed in road racing, time attack and even oval-racing. We’ve been to nearly every race track and car show in Ontario. But nothing prepared us for what we experienced at the Canadian Sport Compact Series this weekend.
The CSCS is a one-of-a-kind racing event that bills itself as Canada’s biggest time attack series, drift series and sport-compact drag racing series. It’s just as much a car show as it is a racing competition with a ‘show and shine’ contest for rides that are just to nice to take out on track.
This is a ‘lifestyle event’ for the younger generation, with pretty girls in tight shirts and buff dudes in no shirts. The music is loud and car colours are wild. The sport compact scene is dominated by Japanese cars like the Mazda Miata and Subaru WRX, plus German machines like the Audi A4 and VW Golf. Small, fast and originally inexpensive cars turned into works of art.
Like all art, it is subjective. Without a doubt, the older generation will look at the purple Nissan Silvia with the anime graphics and not get it. If it isn’t a stock ’69 Camaro they don’t get it. Well, this isn’t grandpa’s car scene.
After the Jamaican patty eating contest was the ‘Stereo SoundClash’ to find the baddest bass in the place. The Toyota minivan that eventually won had such intense bass that it sent sine waves through the roof rack bars! shortly after that was the outrageous Two-Step Battle to find the loudest exhaust with the most aggressive sound. A two-step prepared vehicle has been modified with two rev limiters (one low, one high) allowing the turbocharger to spool up and make boost, then cutting the ignition so the fuel ignites in the exhaust, like a gunshots. Your local ‘neighborhood watch’ may hate it, but the CSCS crowd went wild!
The marquee event is the drifting. Specially prepared, high HP cars with modified suspension and altered steering geometry sliding sideways though the corners is unbelievable. The sound, the smoke and the incredible driver control as the cars wall-ride on the edge of grip. is enough to make even an old-timer in a Fox-Body Mustang into a dedicated follower of Formula Drift. The It is something that just has to be seen live, because TV does not do it justice.
On that note, the next CSCS event is Sunday June 23rd at TMP (Cayuga). This time event highlights are the Foot & Furious 100m Dash, Stereo SoundClash, 2-Step Battle and Max Attack Race. Demaras Racing will once again be at the show with our No. 12 Can-Jam Motorsports F1200 car, but this time we’re heading out on track to show what the open-wheeler can really do!
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