This edit is the result of a few hours of chillin with the Risky Devil Street Car Club in Chicago. Can’t wait to get back to Chicago and do a full edit with these guys. To me, a street-able drift/race/drag car is the ultimate challenge. Forget high dollar race programs, I want to see a car that can make a run to the store an adventure. That makes other drivers do double takes. No trailers, not waiting for a dry weekend afternoon. Cars were built as transportation. They make mundane errands and the boring trips enjoyable. Drive them. Hard.

Thank you to Risky Devil, Grip Gambler, and anyone else who showed up. – Will

Drift Day with WORKS Motorsports from Nation of GO on Vimeo.

NationofGO.com – Drift Day with WORKS Motorsports

This quick edit was created on the road during BFGoodrich’s Nation of GO tour. The crew visited WORKS, a tuning company based out of Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. WORKS was hosting an autocross/drift event during the car meet for the tour. I was able to capture the WORKS drift EVO and a wicked LS1 powered S14. Color grading done with Magic Bullet Looks Suite and Colorista.

While up in Seattle for Formula Drift, John Naderi and I shot with Tim Divers, owner of Divers Street Rods. Tim is responsible for the Detroit Autorama – Riddle Award winning car – Ferrambo. Which is a Rambler wagon with a Ferrari engine. Divers has a nice setup about an hour outside of Seattle, Washington in a town called Startup. Their shop is situated in a thick woods in the middle of a valley. Picturesque settings for a Street Rod builder and his stylish cars.

Read John’s write up on the tour of Divers Street Rods

• Client: StreetFire.net
• Role: Co-Producer, Camera Operator, Editor, and Colorist.
• Delivery Format: Quicktime 720/24p

Four Hundred from Will Roegge on Vimeo.

This digital short film was commissioned by Speedhunters (Electronic Arts) and Royal Purple. During Bonneville Speed Week 2009, I followed the Nish Motorsports team through their week on the salt flats. Their goal is to break the Summer brother’s record and propel the naturally aspirated V8 Streamliner to 425+ MPH. Four Hundred, was selected as the title because it was the goal of the team to get the car up to four hundred miles per hour during Speed Week. This being in preparation for the FIA event where the car would have a longer stretch to reach maximum speed.

Produced by Speedhunters – Rod Chong, Creative Director

Directed, Shot, and Edited by Will Roegge

Special thanks to the Nish Family and John Brooks who conducted the interview with Mike Nish, the driver.

Acquired with a Panasonic HPX-170. Edited in Final Cut Pro. Color Correction done with Magic Bullet Colorista. Minimal Color grading done with Magic Bullet Looks. Cropped to 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio.

Will Roegge/Speedhunters All Star Bash 2009 from The SpeedHunters on Vimeo.

Rod Chong, creative director for speedhunters and I have been trying to collaborate on an exclusive video for his site for some time now. All Star Bash provided that opportunity to create an original piece. Let me know what you think.

Formula D Las Vegas 2009 from Will Roegge on Vimeo.

Here is my edit from Formula Drift Las Vegas 2009. What do you think?

Watch in proper HD on vimeo not the embed.

Formula D New Jersey 2009 from Will Roegge on Vimeo.

Formula Drift New Jersey was my first time at Wall Speedway. Last year, since the event was held at Englishtown Race Way Park- the drivers were initiating at high speed on the road course left handed sweeper. With Wall, they start on the bank initiate their drift into the corner do the full corner, transition from the banking to the flat, and then run a figure eight between the center dividers. For a shooter, this setup is amazing. The distance from one end to the other is manageable on foot and with the lens. Unlike Englishtown which was shot at the end of my zoom/maximum focal length the entire run. Wall’s dramatic transitions also provide for more action- with the weather also proving to be a factor in qualifying and practice on Friday.

Music by AFI. Shot/Edited/Colored by Will Roegge (me)  

Let me know what you think?

Formula D Atlanta 2009 from Will Roegge on Vimeo.

Here is a quick edit I cut together for Formula Drift Atlanta 2009. Road Atlanta is one of my favorite places to shoot because of the red Georgia clay, the clouds, and the elevation change. Plus the event this year was crazy and the fan turn out was incredible.

This is one of the first videos, where I edited first with one song and then replaced it with another. The original edit was done with Metric’s “Help I’m Alive” and then I watched the rough- only to realize it was far too slow for what I was trying to do. Let me know what you think of the Cooker’s Kid Cudi remix and the video.

Formula D Long Beach 2009 from Will Roegge on Vimeo.

Long Beach Formula Drift, round one, was well over a month ago. Slacking on finishing edits. By this time I should have completed an edit for Formula Drift Atlanta Round 2.

To give a little insight into my editing process. I usually review all of my footage. Grab “selects” and string them together in a sequence. Prior to launching Final Cut Pro- I’ve usually selected several songs that I want to use. The nicest part of making my own edits- is the ability to use whatever music I desire. No worries about copyright, because I’m not selling anything or producing the video for money.

The song I picked for this edit is special. I first heard this remix at the Sundance Film Festival 2009. My old roommate Brian Steele had played Tokyo Police Club for me a while back. Then Dave Drusky, the coolest person I know from Portland, introduced me to the remix by RAC- while at Sundance. It fit my life at the time incredibly well. Lyrically and compositionally.

Its difficult to use songs that you particularly care for in an edit- because it inevitably means that you must listen to them repeatedly. Which can kill the freshness and one’s desire for future listening.

Tokyo Police Club – Be Good (RAC Remix). 

Here is my edit for D1GP Anaheim for StreetFire.net – Let me know what you think. 

About a month ago, Ricky Chu and I went to Texas for the Texas Mile event. We got a tour of Henessey performance from John Hennessey himself and went to MSR Houston to watch them test their 2009 Corvette ZR1 – zr750. Which makes 112+ hp than a stock ZR1. Here is a quick video I put together to highlight a few of the quick laps!

Rick Crawford was nice enough to sit down with us during the Auto Club 500 @ California Speedway. Rick talks about how he got into driving professionally, the differences between NASCAR trucks and Cup cars.

Shot and Edited by me. 

Let me know what you think.

Before the start of the 2009 Formula Drift season, Ricky Chu, John Naderi, and I headed out to MTN High for Formula D Ditch Day. Here is the combined footage and edit from Ricky, John, and I’s cameras. 

Here is my final StreetFire.net, NHRA video from the Winternationals this year. With Chris Cunningham, Bob Tasca III’s Crew Chief. Chris does a stellar job of breaking down the parts of the car and the details of this mean V8 8,000HP Machine. Let me know if you learn something new – I did. 

Here is my finished piece for All Star Bash V. Let me know what you think. The song is one that I’ve been playing non-stop- “sleepyhead” the Wallpaper remix. More info on the video soon. Cheers.

NHRA Pomona was a busy weekend for us @ StreetFire.net – here is my most recent edit. Watch as Bob Tasca III explains burning out, staging, launching, and braking his 8,000hp Funny Car. 

While at NHRA Pomona, we got the chance to interview the motor sports manager at Goodyear tires. He filled us in on the “Eagle” drag tires for the NHRA. Goodyear is the only and official tire provider to NHRA’s Funny Car and Top Fuel Dragsters. They are also the official tire of NASCAR. Which as I found out at the Auto Club 500- is a touchy subject with teams and the fans. So watch as we ask as Tire Scientist- or a marketing man who sounds like a scientist. 

Here is a quick edit I did for Streetfire.net from news market footage of the 2009 Geneva Auto Show. Some nice unveils, yeti, and concept cars of the future. What is your favorite car from the video? Lamborghini SV? Rolls Royce?

Video Shot/Edited by me. @ Streetfire.net

300 MPH on four wheels on the ground. Pretty impressive. Right?

Now consider that the 0-100mph barrier is broken under 1 second. Think your Ferrari has pick up? Quick acceleration? Yeah right.

How about reaching 300MPH in under 1,000ft of runway. Impressed yet? I AM. 

Bob Tasca III of Ford Racing took the time to show us around his Nitro Funny Car rig and explain the gear he wears to protect himself and withstand the explosion of Nitro Methane race fuel. Naderi, Ricky, and I got to cover the NHRA top fuel drag races in Pomona and it was an eye opening experience. These cars are impressive machines that are fully piloted by the quick reaction time and instincts of their talented drivers. The engines have to be rebuilt after each pass because of the wear. Over 15 gallons of fuel pumps through the motor’s massive injectors during a single pass. Once the supercharger reaches power- the car’s horsepower rockets up to several thousands of ponies at the wheels. These top fuel cars are purpose built machines that are loud enough to kill your ears.

Watch the video on StreetFire.net’s new HD player.

A few weeks ago, I went with Ricky Chu up to Cinema Vehicle Services in North Hollywood to shoot a video on the cars of the upcoming Fast and the Furious film. Here is my finished edit of the day with the cars and Fireball Tim. These cars were not the primary cars used in the film- but the stunt cars that took a beating to make the high speed action happen on film. Cropped to cinema widescreen to mimic the look of the official trailer and teasers for the Fast & Furious 4. Let me know what you think.