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
James Deane has been on a roll this year, winning the last round of Drift Allstars and now claiming the podium in his third consecutive ProDrift round. Deane took out Brendan Stone in the final, while Alan Lenihan took the last podium spot, defeating Damien Mulvey in the consolation round. All four drivers are in a tight race to win the ProDrift championship, so it will be interesting to see how the championship standings shape up after this round.
1st – James Deane – Full Stop Performance FD RX7
2nd – Brendan Stone – MG Crash Repairs S15
3rd – Alan Lenihan – Hankook Tyre S13.5
4th – Damien Mulvey – MG Crash Repairs S15
BDC at King of the Hill this weekend had several classes including super pro, pro, and semi-pro classes for drifting. The hardest charger of the weekend award was taken by Brad Wallbank for the weekend. A great King of the Hill weekend was put in the books. Here is the podium for all three classes:
Super Pro Class:
1st – Paul Smith
2nd – Shane Lynch
3rd – Barry Leonard
Pro Class:
1st – Kevin Corsius
2nd – Paul Chesire
3rd – James Fuller
Semi-Pro class:
1st – Jay White
2nd – Lewis Cracknell
3rd – Lee Barry
Round 3 of the 2012 MDU season kicked off at the Lucas Oil Raceway and saw Mike Pollard dominate the competition. He holds first place in the series along with his victory in his Achilles Tire x Tomei S13 hatchback. Our photograph above came courtesy of Caen & Able who snapped this great shot. Here is how the podium finished:
1. Mike Pollard
2. Dustin Pizzino
3. Bill Cook
4. Geoff Stoneback
Here is how the Championship Standings are after 3 Rounds:
1. Mike Pollard 143
2. Dustin Pizzino 100
3. Tyson Schmidt 87
4. Bill Cook 65
5. Jake Maturen 59
6. Andrew Lewis 52
7. Cody Grim 49
8. Chris Gonzalez 45
9. Chris Conley 39
10. Ryan Nalezyty 39
Ken Gushi finished Pikes Peak in his inaugural run in the Lexus IS-F CCS-R car, and Toshiki Yoshioka finished his second year on the mountain in Colorado in an RS*R S15 he was seen testing last week. To show just how fast Rhys Millen’s record-breaking run up Pikes Peak was, the times for Ken Gushi and Toshiki Yoshioka were several minutes slower than Rhys’s record-breaking run. Yoshioka’s car was originally built by Driftspeed, but is now operated by RS*R and is different from the S15 he uses in Formula Drift. Gushi finished the course in 11:36.175, while Yoshioka finished in 10:49.009. By comparison, Yoshioka finished the course in 11:33.734 last year, showing just how much faster the course is this year.
Former Formula D driver Andrew Comrie-Picard also competed this year in his Scion xD rally car and finished the course in 12:06.160.
Some familiar faces rose to the top again for round 4 of the Streetwise ProAm series, which took place today in Charlotte, NC. Doug VanDenBrink took home the win again, extending his lead in the points. Nate Hamilton took home second place, while Sikky driver “Rapper” Dan Savage took home third. All three drivers were already ranked in the top 7 rankings entering this event, as we highlighted earlier in the week, so they should all be well on their way to earning their FD Pro licenses with only one event to go.
1st – Doug VanDenBrink – Ford Mustang
2nd – Nate Hamilton – Nissan S13
3rd – “Rapper” Dan Savage – Nissan S13 SilTruck
James Deane pulled off a perfect weekend qualifying first, finishing first in the ‘superlap’ competition, and then winning the tandem rounds in his Full Stop Falken Tire RX7. After watching the highlight video he released earlier in the week, it’s clear that Deane is on a mission to finish off the season strong. Could we see Deane make a return to Formula D in 2013 for the 10th season ?
1st – James Deane
2nd – Alan Sinnott
3rd – Juha Rintanen
4th – Mike Deane
