A crazy weekend went down in Bowling Green, Kentucky with LS Fest which is still firing up today with several events related to LS powered everything. The drifting portion wrapped up last night with Jason Jiovani taking home first place in his ASD Nissan 240sx and the cash prize. We will have some coverage from LS Fest up on the site this week so stay tuned. Here is the podium results from the event:
1. Jason Jiovani
2. Sam Henry
3. Tyson Schmidt
The 6th round of Drift Mania wrapped up just hours ago, and Marc Landreville returned to the top of the podium for the second consecutive event. Landreville eliminated Pat Cyr in the final, who was in his AE86 Corolla for one of the final times as he is building an FR-S for next year. American Mike Pollard traveled north of the border for the holiday weekend to take home the final podium spot, his second podium of the season. We will have a full gallery later this week from our favorite eskimo photographer in all of Canada Jeremy Glover.
1st – Marc Landreville
2nd – Pat Cyr
3rd – Mike Pollard
4th – Tomy Boivert Bellemare
Fredric Aasbo came off his second-place finish in Vegas to win the British Drifting Championships event today at Silverstone in his Speedhunters 2JZ-powered Toyota GT86. Aasbo will be driving in the ProDrift event this coming weekend in Kildare, looking to make three consecutive podiums in three different countries, a nearly unmatchable feat. Darren McNamara bounced back from his failure to qualify in Vegas to place 4th at Silverstone, and will also be driving next weekend.
1st – Fredric Aasbo – Speedhunters Toyota GT86
2nd – Paul Smith – Japspeed 1JZ S15
3rd – Simon Perry – Lassa Tires R33 Skyline
4th – Darren McNamara – Speedhunters RE86
Evergreen Drift rounded out their 5-event series at Monroe Speedway, and Nik Jimenez was on top from start to finish, qualifying 1st and winning the event. With the points from this event, Nik moved into 1st place overall for the Evergreen Drift season championship, and earned his Formula Drift license. Several previous FD drivers have come from the Evergreen series including Walker Wilkerson, Ian Fournier, Roland Gallagher, Kyle Pollard, and Nikolai Konstantinov.
1st – Nik Jimenez
2nd – Kory Keezer
3rd – Matt Van Kirk
4th – Jeremy Richter
Somehow in all the craziness of Vegas, we didn’t get a chance to post the final results of the ProAm event that happened at Las Vegas Motor Speedway! Vegas Drift pulled off another great event, and was able to showcase the talent of several local drivers on the same course as the Formula D pro drivers. Here are the results of the final round of Vegas Drift ProAm 2012:
1st – Forrest Wang – Las Vegas, NV
2nd – Eric Hill – Huntington Beach, CA
3rd – Brandon Wicknick – Layton, UT
4th – Andy Hateley – Malibu, CA
While former D1 champion Daigo Saito was competing in Las Vegas, he missed two rounds of the D1GP series which took place at Ebisu circuit. Daigo won the first round of the series this year, but knew he wouldn’t be able to chase a championship due to his Formula D schedule. Team Orange did well in round 4, taking two of the top four spots. On Sunday, S-chassis took home the top 3 spots. The weather cooperated much better in Ebisu than at the Odaiba round, pictured above, earlier in the year.
Round 4:
1st – Naoto Suenaga – Team Orange Evo
2nd – Tetsuya Hibino – UP Garage GT86
3rd – Kuniaki Takahashi – Goodyear Mark X
4th – Nobushige Kumakubo – Team Orange Laurel
Round 5:
1st – Masato Kawabata – Toyo S15
2nd – Yoichi Imamura – S15
3rd – Tatsuya Sakuma – Toyo 180sx
4th – Kazuya Matsukawa – UP Garage AE86
A big thanks quickly to MotorMavens.com for the great photo of Luke who managed to take home the 2012 Just Drift series championship. These guys are set to be the new stars of Formula Drift so study up on these Pro Am stars and get ready for them in the 2013 season. Here is how the top three finished up:
1. Luke Pakula
2. Dan Brockket
3. Karl Osaki
The driver we did a mini feature on earlier this week Marc Landreville managed to dominate the competition at Montmagny after a one week delayed event due to excessive rain in the track area. Quebec was in much better shape this weekend as Round 5 finished up. Here is how the top four stacked up for the weekend:
1. Marc Landreville
2. Francis Tasse
3. Alex Michaud
4. Tanner Munson
This weekend featured the closing of the 2012 Just Drift series with Top Drift Round 4 at Willow Springs. The four round series finalized the Southern California Pro Am competition and is putting a spotlight on some new Formula Drift stars. Here is how the fourth round finished:
1. Luke Pakula
2. Jesse Vargas
3. Andrew Hateley
