January 26th, 2012
Jeff Jones has spent his fair share of history in Formula Drift moving from one chassis to another in the sport. In fact, we even own one of his old chassis from the 2010 season in the form of a FD Mazda Rx-7. He is pictured above giving tribute to his old car back at the 2011 SEMA Show. Now he reported today that he will be putting together a new chassis for 2012. The new chassis will be a S14 Nissan 240sx platform with some sort of turbo motor setup. The guys at Garrett have announced they will be coming on board for his new build. We cannot wait to see what Jeff Jones has cooked up for the new season.
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September 26th, 2011
Check out the tentative drivers list here for Formula Drift Round 7. No big shockers in the drivers list (hopefully some last minute shocking entries show up) but read it up and down. The finals are going to be up in the air and we cannot wait until the main event:
1. Fredric Aasbo
2. Jeff Abbott
3. Emmanuel Amandio
4. Odi Bakchis
5. Tony Brakohiapa
6. Patrick Cyr
7. Michael Essa
8. Mike Feiock
9. Matt Field
10. Chris Forsberg
11. Vaughn Gittin Jr.
12. Otto Graven
13. Conrad Grunewald
14. Ken Gushi
15. Jim Guthrie
16. Sam Hubinettte
17. Jeff Jones
18. Ryan kado
19. Dean Kearney
20. Nikolay Konstantinov
21. Alex Lee
22. Luke Lonberger
23. Joon Maeng
24. Cyrus Martinez
25. Darren McNamara
26. Tyler McQuarrie
27. Dennis Mertzanis
28. Rhys Millen
29. Kenneth Moen
30. Kyle Mohan
31. Patrick Mordaunt
32. Charles Ng
33. Robbie Nishida
34. Justin Pawlak
35. Ross Petty
36. Alex Pfeiffer
37. Kyle Pollard
38. Saranon Pornpatanarak
39. Matt Powers
40. John Russakoff
41. Ryan Tuerck
42. Matt Waldin
43. Walker Wilkerson
44. Daijiro Yoshihara
45. Toshiki Yoshioka
Posted in Alex Pfeiffer, Charles Ng, Chris Forsberg, Conrad Grunewald, Daijiro Yoshihara, Darren McNamara, Dean Kearney, Formula D, Fredric Aasbo, Jeff Jones, Joon Maeng, Ken Gushi, Kyle Mohan, Matt Powers, Michael Essa, Odi Bakchis, Patrick Mordaunt, Rhys Millen, Sam Hubinette, Tanner Foust, Tyler McQuarrie, Vaughn Gittin Jr., Walker Wilkerson | 5 Comments »
September 7th, 2011
Last night we headed out to pick up and collect our newest project car. It ran the complete Formula Drift 2010 season with Jeff Jones behind the wheel and retired at Irwindale Speedway. Below you can see a photo of Jeff Jones running tandem with Joon Maeng at Formula Drift Las Vegas last year! We will be opening up a projects blog and filling you in on more with this car very soon!
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August 27th, 2011
Here are the Top 32 pairings for todays big event. Right now if your eye is on the championship you will care about Tyler McQuarrie Justin Pawlak and Dai Yoshihara photographed above. They are on the same side of the bracket and scheduled to meet in the Final Four if they can win their respective tandem battles for the weekend. Sadly Tyler McQuarrie and Justin Pawlak are on opposite sides of the ladder so they would not meet until the finals for a battle that would be huge after the controversy of the weekend.
Matt Powers Vs. Jeff Jones
Matt Field Vs. Fredric Aasbo
Conrad Grunewald Vs. Matt Walden
Ken Gushi vs. Tyler McQuarrie
Chris Forsberg Vs. Alex Lee
Ryan Tureck Vs. Charles Ng
Vaughn Gittin Jr. Vs. Cyrus Martinez
Darren McNamara Vs. Kyle Pollard
Rhys Millen Vs. Sam Hubinette
Dean Kearney Vs. Patrick Mordaunt
Kyle Mohan Vs. Dennis Mertzanis
Michael Essa Vs. Armando “Dio”
Robbie Nishida Vs. Justin Pawlak
Otto Graven Vs. Odi Bakchis
Daijiro Yoshihara Vs. Ross Petty
Ryan Kado Vs. Toshiki Yoshioka
UPDATE at 6:41pm: Formula D changed the Top 32 due to points not given to Ryan Tuerck. No update of rankings as of Top 32 has been posted or provided as of the event going on live in progress. We apologize for the errors in this post.
Posted in Charles Ng, Chris Forsberg, Conrad Grunewald, Daijiro Yoshihara, Darren McNamara, Dean Kearney, Formula D, Jeff Jones, Justin Pawlak, Ken Gushi, Michael Essa, Patrick Mordaunt, Rhys Millen, Robbie Nishida, Tyler McQuarrie, Vaughn Gittin Jr. | 8 Comments »
August 27th, 2011
An awesome weekend after dark here at Round 6 had temperatures that were hot but tolerable on the track after 8pm. Team Need for Speed driver Matt Powers proved his talents again this weekend by driving to a first place qualifying finish without a problem. Two other big shocks were Rhys Millen making a return to the top of the qualifying list with a second place finish and Robbie Nishida out of no where took his 240sx to a solid third place finish.
1. Matt Powers – 96.9
2. Rhys Millen – 93
3. Robbie Nishida – 89.8
4. Chris Forsberg – 89.5
5. Vaughn Gittin Jr. – 89.5
6. Dai Yoshihara – 88.5
7. Kyle Mohan – 88.3
8. Conrad Grunewald – 87.5
9. Ken Gushi – 86
10. Michael Essa – 86
11. Ryan Kado – 86
12. Darren McNamara – 85.8
13. Ryan Tureck 58
14. Otto Graven – 84
15. Dean Kearney – 82
16. Matt Field – 82
17. Fredric Aasbo – 81.5
18. Patrick Mordaunt – 79.5
19. Odi Bakchis – 79.5
20. Charles Ng – 79
21. Kyle Pollard – 78.8
22. Toshiki Yoshioka – 78.5
23. E. Armando – 76.3
24. Tyler McQuarrie – 75
25. Matt Waldin – 74.5
26. Dennis Mertzanis – 74
27. Ross Petty – 73
28. Cyrus Martinez – 70.5
29. Alex Lee – 68.5
30. Justin Pawlak – 68
31. Sam Hubinette – 65
32. Jeff Jones – 65
UPDATE at 6:41pm: Formula D changed the Top 32 due to points not given to Ryan Tuerck. No update of rankings as of Top 32 has been posted or provided as of the event going on live in progress. We apologize for the errors in this post.
Posted in Charles Ng, Chris Forsberg, Conrad Grunewald, Daijiro Yoshihara, Darren McNamara, Dean Kearney, Formula D, Jeff Jones, Ken Gushi, Matt Powers, Matt Waldin, Michael Essa, Patrick Mordaunt, RESULTS, Rhys Millen, Ryan Tuerck, Sam Hubinette, Tyler McQuarrie, Vaughn Gittin Jr. | 3 Comments »
August 6th, 2011
The 2010 chassis of Jeff Jones is now for sale by for a great price on Zilvia. The car in the current for sale state is missing an engine and has been stripped down to just a rolling shell. The cage does feature two Formula Drift tech stickers from the 2010 season. This is a much better deal than another Formula D chassis that was listed at $100,000 as a rolling chassis that came up for sale a few months ago on eBay. Follow the Zilvia link to see how the chassis looks as it sits now.
Buy It Now: http://zilvia.net/f/cars-sale/392224-rotary-works-formula-d-fd-roller.html
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July 23rd, 2011
One of the most fun events of the year kicked off today at Evergreen Speedway with…. WAIT FOR IT….. amazing weather. After a delayed/canceled/stalled practice yesterday the track left us nothing but sunshine to play with for qualifying. The track has had some notorious downpours during practice to shake up the qualifying order. It apparently got all shaken up without the bad weather and we caught some amazing action from today shot by Joey Redmond. It is also the 250th event gallery we have uploaded to our website since Wrecked Magazine was started, 25% of the way to 1,000 drift events covered.
Check Out the Gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=250
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July 22nd, 2011
Formula Drift Evergreen Speedway qualifying ended today with Tyler McQuarrie taking the top spot. The rest of the qualifying order is below:
1 Tyler McQuarrie – 94.5
2 Justin Pawlak – 93.5
3 Rhys. Millen – 89.6
4 Daijiro Yoshihara – 86.9
5 Odi Bakchis – 86
6 Conrad. Grunewald – 85.1
7 Joon. Maeng – 83.7
8 Fredric. Aasbo – 82.1
9 Dean. Kearney – 81.3
10 Ryan. Tuerck – 80.3
11 Michael. Essa – 76.4
12 Vaughn. Gittin – 75.7
13 Matt. Powers – 75.1
14 Walker Wilkerson – 74.7
15 Chris. Forsberg -74.5
16 Alex. Lee – 72.8
17 Alax. Pfeiffer – 71.4
18 Otto. Graven – 71.2
19 Darin. McNamara – 71
20 Charles. Ng – 66.8
21 Matt Field – 66.5
22 Kyle Mohan – 65.1
23 Toshiki Yoshioka – 64.6
24 Roland Gallagher – 62.8
25 Ross Petty – 61
26 Ken. Gushi – 60.6
27 Cyrus Martinez – 60.5
28 Robbie Nishida – 57
29 Jeff Jones – 56.1
30 Ryan Kado – 55.2
31 Dennis Mertzanis – 52.3
32 Luke Longberger – 52.2
Posted in Charles Ng, Chris Forsberg, Daijiro Yoshihara, Darren McNamara, Dean Kearney, Formula D, Jeff Jones, Joon Maeng, Justin Pawlak, Ken Gushi, Kyle Mohan, Matt Powers, Matt Waldin, Michael Essa, RESULTS | 7 Comments »
June 4th, 2011
The event is right around the corner so we put together the Top 32 pairings for you from the weekend. Some snoozers mixed with some really get pairings of tandem to fight our way into the Top 16 today at PBIR. The fast entry is going to be a focus point of tandem we feel like and the high speed ending by that wall could result in some serious damage by the end of the day.
1 Chris Forsberg vs 32 Michael Essa
16 Samuel Hubinette vs 17 Ross Petty
8 Tyler Mcquarrie vs 25 Jeff Jones
9 Joon Maeng vs 24 Charles Ng
4 Vaughn Gittin JR vs 29 John Ruskakoff
13 Otto Graven vs 20 Matt Waldin
5 Rhys Millen vs 28 Odi Bakchis
12 Dai Yoshihara vs 21 Kyle Mohan
2 Darren McNamara vs 31 Mike Feiock
15 Taka Aono vs 18 Alex Pfeiffer
7 Conrad Grunewald vs 26 Eric O’Sullivan
10 Toshiki Yoshioka vs 23 Pat Cyr
3 Justin Pawlak vs 30 Luke Lonberger
14 Ryan Tuerck vs 19 Walker Wilkerson
6 Fredric Aasbo vs 27 Matt Powers
11 Ken Gushi vs 22 Ryan Kado
Posted in Alex Pfeiffer, Charles Ng, Chris Forsberg, Conrad Grunewald, Eric O'Sullivan, Formula D, Fredric Aasbo, Jeff Jones, Ken Gushi, Kyle Mohan, Matt Powers, Matt Waldin, Michael Essa, Rhys Millen, Ryan Tuerck, Sam Hubinette, Tyler McQuarrie, Vaughn Gittin Jr. | No Comments »
June 1st, 2011
Behind the Smoke Ep 7: Atlanta Battles Begin
Check out the start of Road Atlanta featured on Behind the Smoke this week. The video highlights the start of the Tires.com Championship with guest interviews from Chris Forsberg and Rhys Millen. The video follows Daijiro Yoshihara around the Road Atlanta complex and shows his victory over Jeff Jones in the Top 32 along with his Top 16 elimination of Fredric Aasbo.
Watch the video: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/watchvideo/behind-the-smoke-ep-7-atlanta-battles-begin
Posted in Chris Forsberg, Daijiro Yoshihara, Fredric Aasbo, Jeff Jones, Rhys Millen, Video | No Comments »
