Check out Matt Powers tearing it up in his China S14 that is mocked after his Formula Drift competition car. Matt Powers finished the WDS event in second this year in this mocked S14. He finished second behind Vaughn Gittin Jr. in this WDS event who brought a demo version of his Ford Mustang out.
Watch the video: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/watchvideo/matt-powers-at-wds-in-china
Mark Lenardon – Chronicles of Irwindale
One of the first and best looking drift videos captured by Mark highlighting Final Fight at Irwindale Speedway. This was the first season ender that gave several drivers a huge opportunity to win a championship. Dai Yoshihara, Justin Pawlak, Darren McNamara, AND Chris Forsberg all had a shot to win it big this season. Watch how the weekend unfolded.
Watch the video: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/watchvideo/mark-lenardon—chronicles-of-irwindale-
Back in 2010 Matt Powers finished the season in 16th place and he managed to knock that down to 6th in 2011 with a great performance all around this year. One of his big upgrades was from his KA Nissan engine to a GMPP LS7 giving him tons of horsepower and torque on demand. He could earn this award next year by taking home the championship perhaps?
Matt Powers hit Chris Forsberg at LBC and Darren McNamara at Road Atlanta so who else could earn this award for Hardest Charger. After those two actions at the beginning of the year he was even warned to tone it down a little bit! Matt Powers never backed down this year and has one beat to hell S14 chassis to prove it. He earned the hardest charger award by far.
Matt Powers (far left) is a surfer, San Diego bum, 80′s rocker, and race car driver all in one. His style is unmatched in the grid and unique attitude makes him stand out. Team Need for Speed grabbed him up after his rookie rise to a podium at Irwindale Speedway. Team Need for Speed has helped him take a step into the next level all around. Even though he bailed on the Mattley Crew his swagger has carried him an easy Best Personal Style award.
The most winning driver in Formula Drift Sam Hubinette took the top qualifying spot this weekend at Irwindale Speedway which is something we haven’t seen from him in sometime. A huge congrats to his performance after a rough start to the 2011 season! Here is how the Top 32 stacked up with Rookie of the Year leader Odi Bakchis missing out with a 33rd place finish.
1.Sam Hubinette – 92.7 points
2. Justin Pawlak – 90.4 points
3. Tyler McQuarrie – 88.4 points
4. Ryan Tuerck – 86.1 points
5. Rhys Millen – 85.9 points
6. Dai Yoshihara – 83.5 points
7. Walker Wilkerson – 83.3 points
8. Robbie Nishida – 83.2 points
9. Conrad Grunewald – 82.3 points
10. Matt Powers – 79.4 points
11. Ken Gushi – 79.0 points
12. Vaughn Gittin Jr. – 77.7 points
13. Fredric Aasbo – 77.3 points
14. Dean Kearney – 77.1 points
15. Luke Lonberger – 77 points
16. Chris Forsberg – 76.9 points
17. Matt Field – 76.5 points
18. Toshiki Yoshioka – 73.1 points
19. Ryan Kado – 72.8 points
20. Kyle Mohan – 72.8 points
21. Michael Essa – 71.2 points
22. Taka Aono – 70.8 points
23. Ross Petty – 68.9 points
24. E. Armandio “Dio” – 68.6 points
25. Dennis Mertzanis – 68.3 points
26. Darren McNamara – 67.9 points
27. Jeff Abbott – 67.8 points
28. Pat Cyr – 66.3 points
29. Kenneth Moen – 66.2 points
30. Cyrus Martinez – 63.3 points
31. Charles Ng – 62.5 points
32. Patrick Mordaunt – 61 points
Matt Powers Crashes at Thursday Practice on the Bank
Check out this video showing Matt Powers have a big hit on the start of the bank and have some issues with the Team Need for Speed S14 which put the passenger side of the car hard into the wall. You can see suspension and parts go flying as the car bounces along the area of the bank.
Watch the video: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/watchvideo/matt-powers-crashes-at-thursday-practice-on-t
Here are the drivers found on the poll for the 2011 Formula Drift Awards that are presented at the banquet after the season ends. Here are the nine questions which each have four options selected by Formula D. I heard they are going to make a new category this year called driver who missed driving their own race car the most but I don’t think we need multiple choice options for that one (this is a joke for you non sense of humored people).
1. Crew Member of the year (this person can be the crew chief, mechanic, suspension engineer, etc.)
A. Mike Kojima (Discount Tire S13/Dai Yoshihara)
B. Scott Dodgen (Discount Tire S13/Dai Yoshihara)
C. Kevin Wells (NOS Energy Drink 370z/Chris Forsberg)
D. Costa Gialamas (Team Need for Speed S14/Matt Powers)
2. Team Manager of the year (this person can be the manager, owner or the person instrumental in managing the team well)
A. Jonathan Bradford (Falken Tire)
B. Stephan Papadakis (Team Need for Speed Scion tC)
C. Chris Forsberg (NOS Energy Drink 370z)
D. Ron Bergenholtz (Full Tilt Poker Mazda Rx-8)
3. Hardest Charging Driver of the Year”
A. Matt Powers
B. Dai Yoshihara
C. Darren McNamara
D. Walker Wilkerson
E. Conrad Grunewald
F. Justin Pawlak
4. Best Drifting Style:
A. Matt Powers
B. Dai Yoshihara
C. Ryan Tuerck
D. Fredric Aasbo
5. Spirit of Drifting:
A. Joon Maneg
B. Ross Petty
C. Walker Wilkerson
D. Dai Yoshihara
6. Best Style (the person with the best overall style this season, not driving style)
A. Matt Powers
B. Matt Field
C. Ross Petty
D. Dai Yoshihara
7. Most Improved Driver:
A. Odi Bakchis
B. Cyrus Martinez
C. Justin Pawlak
D. Matt Powers
8. Best Comeback of the Year:
A. Rhys Millen
B. Fredric Aasbo
C. Odi Bakchis
D. Vaughn Gittin Jr.
9. Best Looking Car of the Year:
A. Dai Yoshihara
B. Matt Field
C. Fredric Aasbo
D. Chris Forsberg
I have been trying to dig up some information about this event in China over the weekend but I can tell you that Vaughn Gittin Jr. took home the win. Matt Powers also took home second place to finish off a great 1/2 punch. Robbie Nishida and Daigo Saito also came in to China to compete in the event.
1. Vaughn Gittin Jr.
2. Matt Powers
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
