Congratulations to Daigo Saito on his first place win in the Achilles Radial / Bridges Racing SC430. That’s a wrap for Formula Drift Round 2 at Road Atlanta! Stay tuned for more coverage from this weekend, you won’t want to miss it.
#1 Daigo Saito Achilles Radial / Bridges Racing Lexus Sc430
#2 Darren McNamara Falken Tire 1995 Nissan 240SX S14
#3 Vaughn Gittin JR 2014 Monster Energy Nitto Tire Ford Mustang RTR
Congratulations to the #1 qualifier, Fredric Aasbo!
Here are your Top 32 qualifiers for Round 2:
1. Fredric Aasbo 90.5
2. Michael Essa 89.8
3. Justin Pawlak 88.4
4. Chelsea DeNofa 87.6
5. Daigo Saito 84.5
6. Darren McNamara 81.4
7. Matt Powers 80.7
8. Matt Field 79.6
9 .Vaughn Gittin Jr. 79.1
10. Chris Forsberg 77.9
11. Odi Bakchis 77.9
12. Forrest Wang 72.9
13. Jeff Jones 72.2
14. Danny George 71.2
15. Dai Yoshihara 70.6
16. Kenny Moen 68.8
17. Robbie Nishida 85.1
18. Conrad Grunewald 84.9
19. Ryan Tuerck 75.4
20. Kyle Mohan 74.8
21. Miro Ovcharik 72.4
22. Toshiki Yoshioka 72.3
23. Taka Aono 71.6
24. Dave Briggs 70.4
25. Chris Ward 69.8
26. Will Parsons 69.8
27. Nate Hamilton 68.9
28. Pat Mordaunt 67.8
29. Joon Maeng 67.7
30. Pat Goodin 63
31. Corey Hosford 59
32. Walker Wilkerson 58.9
Last weekend saw the convergence of nearly 80 drifters from around the Midwest and beyond for the second-annual No-Star Bash, a joint venture between Drift Indy and ClubFR. Held at Gateway Motorsports Park just outside of St. Louis in Madison, Ill, the event served as the first shake down of 2013 for many drivers. More after the jump!
Bakchis Motorsports: 2013 Preseason Video from Ross Fairfield on Vimeo.
Team OMGDrift driver Odi Bakchis likes to stay busy during the offseason. Between running Feal Suspension, testing for Formula D and getting out to Pro-am events, he hardly has time for anything else.
But his dedication shows when he hits the track. Take a look at this video that he just dropped, and see for yourself what his normal routine consists of.
-Ross
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Drift Colorado's Brandon Hack in his LS1 powered S13.
Drift Colorado has kicked off the start to the drift season with their first event out at Pikes Peak International Raceway. The event had a big turnout with a lot of new faces along with some old, familiar faces we haven’t seen in a while. This event also marks Drift Colorado’s second year running events and from the looks of it, seems like this year will be another great success.
Since I’m terrible at introducing myself, let’s get it over with. Hey everyone! My name is Ben and I love cars, coffee, beer and photography. You have no idea how much time it took to think of that finely crafted introduction, but now that that’s out of the way let’s get to some drifting!
Freedom Moves is a two-day drift festival in New Jersey put on by Club Loose.
Professional drift driver Ryan Tuerck sums it up as: “Drift all day, party all night—get up the next day and do it all over again!”
Fellow Formula Drift drivers including Chris Forsberg, Tony Angelo, Vaughn Gittin Jr., and Tuerck all come together in Jersey to let loose on and off the track.
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Well, I seem to still be alive, and if you’re reading this, I assume you are too. No doomsday apocalypse here, so to celebrate, I present my year-in-review post. I traversed nearly 11,000 miles and spent over $1,100 in fuel, on top of hotels, food, camera gear/repairs/rentals, supplies, etc. The end result of those expenditures follows (you’ll find links to each event’s main article within). More after the jump!
Read MoreRecently Chris Brady asked me to come and video him teaching his partner Emma Saunders how to drift. This is the first episode of her learning just that. Initially Emma is just out learning a few basic car control techniques. In the next episode Chris will be teaching her some basic drifting techniques like initiation, clipping points and so on. Sit back and enjoy Emma ringing the neck of an E36 M3. Personally, I was really impressed with her and her attitude inside and outside the car. It is going to be really interesting to see how she gets on in the episodes to come so stay tuned to OMGdrift for future episodes!
-OMGPatrick
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