Chris Forsberg had fun over the past weekend at Englishtown running in group tandem battles with other missiles and New Jersey locals at the most recent Clubloose drift weekend. His helmet camera shows Chris changing tires, hitting the track in his S13, and running tandem with drivers such as Eric O’Sullivan (yellow Pontiac Solstice) on the Englishtown Raceway course.
A great weekend at Golden Gate Drift saw another young gun perform very well and take home a win in his second competition ever. While it isn’t the first Subaru we have seen drifting ever we sure do think it is the first wagon and first Pro Am victory by a Subaru in American drift history. Here is how the podium finished up this weekend:
1st. Dave Forman
2nd. Chris mills
3rd. Nick Bayatti
One of the original Pro Am series returns this weekend with a debut 2013 event at Englishtown Raceway Park. The weather was far from perfect over the course of this weekend but it didn’t stop some amazing driving and competition from happening. Here is how the top four finished up:
1. Geoff Stonebeck
2. Paul Beiswenger
3. James Evans
4. Resse Marin
If you happen to be one of the 43,000,000 homes that picks up MAV TV which includes a ton of great motorsports programming then set your DVR to record today at 5:00pm EST or Saturday again at 12:0pm EST to record The Racing Insiders. Our head editor Joey Redmond joins the cast to talk about the state of drifting in Japan and the United States. The cast mentions going to spec cars and where can you practice to become a pro in America? All these questions and more answered on The Racing Insiders today!
The Streetwise Drift series kicked off this weekend the day after Formula Drift Round 2 with a big event at Gresham Motorsports Park. Kelsey Rowlings who we interviewed in Issue 25 qualified 6th but spun out in her Top 16 tandem run. Brandon Wicknick left Road Atlanta on Saturday and landed a much more desirable fourth place in the Pro Am Round. The biggest scoop of the weekend is Alec Holendell who we are told has been driving less than one year and is still in high school managed to land a big second place finish! Sounds like he is one to keep an eye on for the next few years. Here is how the results finished up:
1st Brad Heyl
2nd Alec Hohandell
3rd Ron Ewerth
4th Brandon Wicknick
Here are some photographs from the Round 1 weekend at Midwest Drift Union which took place over at the Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis, Indiana. The photographs were taken by Jason Carroll who also shot the No Star Bash for us. Follow along the action from a Pro Am weekend that is breeding some of the new drifting stars of the future from the midwest.
Check out the Gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=340
One of the original founders of the Pro Am series with Drift Association back in 2005 are returning to hold an Am series in the north east. The 2013 schedule is four events and kicks off this month at Englishtown with the guys over at Clubloose. The USDrift crew helped run XDC for a while but officially split ways with the sanctioning body at the beginning of 2013.
The USDrift Pro Am series will feature five judges who include Formula Drift champion Chris Forsberg, Matt Petty, Mike Schneider, Dan Summers, and Formula Drift judge Brian Eggert. Two sets of judges will watch the same criteria during qualifying and their scores will be averaged. For example, Judge 1 and 2 are line, Judge 3 and 4 are angle, and Judge 5 is style. The idea is to eventually have 9 judges, with 3 judges for each criteria and then dropping the outlier scores (highest and lowest). Tandem format will remain the same and still be majority rules. What do drivers think of this new judging format USDrift is bringing to the table? Below is the schedule for the 2013 season:
May 18th Round 1- Englishtown, New Jersey (Clubloose)
June 14/15th Round 2- Summit Point, West Virginia (Hyperfest)
July 26/27th Round 3- New Jersey Motorsports Park (ARCA)
August 18th Round 4- Summit Point, West Virginia (Drift Nirvana)
Here is some great coverage of the Clubloose Spring Moves event that happened over the past weekend at Englishtown Raceway Park. The drift season is finally back out of hibernation after the winter in the north east. Also note you can now purchase prints of all the photographs in the gallery. Some old timers like Eric O’Sullivan were out at the track and some new drivers with good skills and great looking cars.
Check out the Gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=334
We sent Jason Carroll out to No Star Bash and just hoped he would come back alive after the best drift weekend the midwest has ever seen wrapped up just outside St. Louis at Gateway Motorsports Park. The event brought out Pro Am and Am’s alike to have a great time. We even got to see two Scion FR-S street cars tandeming against each other.
Check out the Gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=326
Street drifting is a horrible idea for almsot anyone looking to have some fun in this day and age. What makes street drifting even worse is when you are prone to understeer like this Nissan 240sx in the video above. Keep it on the track or at least practice in a big parking lot before getting crazy with some daytime street drifting.
