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FF SQUAD

Dinh Thai is an award-winning Writer/Director, Filmmaker, Commercial Director. Winner of NBCU's Next Generation Filmmaker and Outstanding Director Awards. First Place winner of HBO Visionaries. Follow him on IG @Dinhster



FF Squad is a diverse group of Honda enthusiasts from the San Gabriel Valley, California. Their love for speed has matured from wreckless street drag-racing into competitive road-racing at regulated high-performance track events. ​

Amongst the Honda tuner community, FF Squad is considered to be the original trendsetter of function over form. These guys ARE NOT The Fast and The Furious; no bright paint and absent-minded tribal decals. No wild lights and Matrix-like dashboards. Their styles are clean, classic, and original.

The FF Squad video series is a passion project for Dinh. He single-handedly shot, directed, and edited each of these pieces. It's a task that's daunting for some, but a true pleasure for him. He recalls when the guys are racing on the track there could be as many as 12 cameras rolling simultaneously: from GoPros to Sony on-boards, to handheld Canon 5Ds and other various systems.

Can you imagine having to manage and transcode all that media on a tiny MacBook? The Squad's fellow racing friend Jared Reyes hand-built some stealthy camera mounts for which Dinh used to place small-sized chase cameras on the rear of the cars.

The FF Squad crew arriving to Buttonwillow on an early morning.

The FF Squad crew arriving to Buttonwillow on an early morning.