Chelsea DeNofa won the XDC championship two years in a row (2010-2011) and is now making his way over to Formula Drift in 2012. He just released a 2011 reel video which you can check out by following the link below. He really puts down some great follow runs through these 2011 XDC video and we are hoping he can bring that aggressiveness into Formula Drift for this season. Hopefully his 2012 chassis has more power or on some tracks he will have a hard time keeping up with the rocket ships competition like ASD.

An American dominated another season of Drift Mania this year with Miro Ovcharik. Ryan Tuerck and Matt Waldin have taken a championship from the Canadians in the past and this year was no exception. Here is the championship finishing order:

1. Miro Ovcharik
2. Dave Briggs
3. Jeff Laflamme

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.

Evergreen Speedway is the most exciting round of the year by far over and over again. This year eliminated Justin Pawlak in the Top 32 and allowed Dai Yoshihara to take back his championship reigns. The top 25 is going to be shaken up through Las Vegas and Irwindale Speedway this year we have a feeling resulting in the best season of Formula D history. Here is how they came out of Evergreen Speedway:

1. Daijiro Yoshihara (412 points)
2. Justin Pawlak (397 points)
3. Chris Forsberg (369 points)
4. Darren McNamara (345.50 points)
5. Matt Powers (328.50 points)
6. Tyler McQuarrie (317 points)
7. Ryan Tuerck (308 points)
8. Conrad Grunewald (300 points)
9. Vaughn Gittin Jr. (291 points)
10. Kyle Mohan (266 points)
11. Fredric Aasbo (250 points)
12. Toshiki Yoshioka (238.25 points)
13. Rhys Millen (207 points)
14. Ken Gushi (188.75 points)
15. Odi Bakchis (185.50 points)
16. Walker Wilkerson (185 points)
17. Ross Petty (184.25 points)
18. Joon Maeng (165.50 points)
19. Matt Field (159.75 points)
20. Matt Waldin (159 points)
21. Otto Graven (158.75 points)
22. Dennis Mertzanis (157.50 points)
23. Charles Ng (152.25 points)
24. John Russakoff (146.50 points)
25. Dean Kearney (128.75 points)

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

Dan Jenkins shot up Englishtown for the famous East Coast Bash with 300+ photos from just Saturday. Watch as Formula Drift stars like Matt Waldin and Chris Forsberg mix it up with the northeast locals such like Steve Angerman and John Wagner. If your ever going to attend one local grassroots drifting event in the United States this should be it.

Check Out the Gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=242

Here is how the championship stacks up after the New Jersey Wall event. JTP did a great job defending his lead as everyone else finds themselves chasing the 363 point leader. Here is how the Top 25 stack up.

1. Justin Pawlak – 363 points
2. Daijiro Yoshihara – 306 points
3. Darren McNamara – 291 points
4. Chris Forsberg – 280 points
5. Matt Powers – 273.50 points
6. Conrad Grunewald – 272 points
7. Ryan Tuerck – 245 points
8. Tyler McQuarrie – 244 points
9. Vaughn Gittin Jr. – 228 points
10. Toshiki Yoshioka – 213.75 points
11. Kyle Mohan – 204.50 points
12. Fredric Aasbo – 169 points
13. Ken Gushi – 164.50 points
14. Ross Petty – 160 points
15. Walker Wilkerson – 160 points
16. Matt Waldin – 159 points
17. John Russakoff – 146.50 points
18. Matt Field – 135.25 points
19. Otto Graven – 134.25 points
20. Rhys Millen – 130 points
21. Taka Aono – 127.75 points
21. Charles Ng – 127.75 points
23. Odi Bakchis – 127.50 points
24. Joon Maeng – 108.50 points
25. Dennis Mertzanis – 103.25 points

Justin Pawlak now has a demanding lead in the championship race as we pack up and head north to New Jersey in 14 days. He has a 36 point lead on his ASD teammate Darren McNamara. Daijiro Yoshihara took a huge hit in the standings and is now barely holding on to 3rd place. Here is how the Top 20 stand.

1. Justin Pawlak – 272 points
2. Darren McNamara – 236 points
3. Dai Yoshihara – 220 points
4. Chris Forsberg – 215 points
5. Matt Powers – 212.25 points
6. Ryan Tuerck – 182 points
7. Tyler McQuarrie – 179 points
8. Conrad Grunewald – 166 points
9. Toshiki Yoshioka – 159.25 points
10. Vaughn Gittin Jr. – 157 points
11. Kyle Mohan – 149.50 points
12. Fredric Aasbo – 144.50 points
13. Walker Wilkerson – 135.75 points
14. Matt Waldin – 130 points
15. Rhys Millen – 130 points
16. John Russakoff – 119.50 points
17. Ken Gushi – 108.50 points
18. Ross Petty – 104 points
19. Taka Aono – 103.50 points
20. Charles Ng – 103.25 points

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

Matt Waldin at Road Atlanta by Cyrious Productions

Find out what Matt “The Wolf” Waldin was doing at Road Atlanta a few weeks back for Formula Drift Round 2. The guys from Cyrious Productions put together a piece highlighting the DMCC champions run at Road Atlanta. Matt Waldin has taken his Helix Energy Drink 350z to 10th place currently in the Formula Drift Championship standings. This is the highest he has sat in his career currently!

Watch the video: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/watchvideo/matt-waldin-at-road-atlanta-by-cyrious-produc