BFGoodrich has been involved with drifting over the past few years mostly with Sam Hubinette and his Dodge partnership. The two time champion will be losing access to the BFG KDW tire since BFGoodrich will no longer be an approved tire for the series starting in 2012. In other news they have rolled out the g-Force Sport COMP2 and we got invited to test it out.

Sadly with their exit in Formula Drift you cannot see them in action for all seven rounds but you can make them a purchase at your local tire shop starting in Q2 of this year. The tire is a huge improvement over the old COMP tire hands down. BFG really reworked the wet characteristics of the COMP2 and made some serious improvements within the tire’s compound and inner structure.

The tire really seems to be one of the best daily driven/occasional track weekend tires on the market today. The new silica infused compound allows drivers to push the tire to the limits, and keep it there, before it gradually fails. This differs from past and from competing tires, that when pushed beyond the limits, the tires just sort of give up. While testing the BFGoodrich G-Force Comp 2′s, we tested the tire utilizing VW GTis on a wet autocross course (pictured above), and Dodge Challengers on a dry autocross course where we took the liberty of sliding the Challengers through some of the turns to find that even with the weight of such a vehicle, the Comp2′s maintained their composure and provided a sense of security when pushing the tire to the limit.

While we may not get the opportunity to breathe in BFGoodrich smoke at Formula Drift Long Beach, rest assured that BFGoodrich will be making strides to push forward in an ever-competitive market. They are releasing 50 applications between 195/50R/15 and 275/40ZR/20.

Here is the Magnaflow Exhaust 2011 Camaro SS that received the seal of approval from Mario Andretti and sat inside the Magnaflow booth all week. Now Formula Drift champion Sam Hubinette is going to take the car out to Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch to compete in the Optima Battery Street Car Challenge with other similar built vehicles. Normally we see Sam wheeling a Dodge in just about everything he does but this time he is driving a bow tie in competition. We will see how he manages the Camaro and we assume it will be one of the last times we see him not driving under the Dodge banner.

After the 2011 season Formula Drift has 52 events in the books. The series now has 17 overall event winners meaning just about every 3 events (twice a season) a driver will receive his first win in the sport. Now after 2011 nine drivers are multiple events winners in the series. This year added two of those nine drivers with Justin Pawlak winning both his events this season and Tyler McQuarrie earning his second at Irwindale Speedway this season joining the club.

1. Sam Hubinette (9 Wins)
1. 2004 Road Atlanta
2. 2004 Houston
3. 2004 Infineon Raceway (Sonoma)
4. 2005 Road Atlanta
5. 2005 Chicago
6. 2006 Streets of Long Beach
7. 2006 Chicago
8. 2006 Wall Speedway
9. 2007 Summit Point

2. Tanner Foust (7 Wins)
1. 2006 Road Atlanta
2. 2007 Irwindale Speedway
3. 2008 Streets of Long Beach
4. 2008 Englishtown
5. 2008 Infineon Raceway (Sonoma)
6. 2009 Las Vegas
7. 2010 Evergreen Speedway
8. 2010 Irwindale Speedway

3. Chris Forsberg (6 Wins)
1. 2005 Irwnidale
2. 2007 Road Atlanta
3. 2007 Infineon Raceway (Sonoma)
4. 2008 Streets of Long Beach
5. 2009 Road Atlanta
6. 2009 Evergreen Speedway

3. Rhys Millen (6 Wins)
1. 2004 Irwindale Speedway
2. 2005 Wall Speedway
3. 2006 Infineon Raceway (Sonoma)
4. 2008 Road Atlanta
5. 2008 Evergreen Speedway
6. 2011 Las Vegas

3. Dai Yoshihara (6 Wins)
1. 2006 Irwindale Speedway
2. 2007 Evergreen Speedway
3. 2007 Wall Speedway
4. 2010 Road Atlanta
5. 2011 Road Atlanta
6. 2011 Evergreen Speedway

6. Vaughn Gittin Jr. (3 Wins)
1. 2008 Irwindale Speedway
2. 2010 Streets of Long Beach
3. 2010 Infineon Raceway (Sonoma)

7. Ryan Tuerck (2 Wins)
1. 2009 Streets of Long Beach
2. 2009 Irwindale Speedway

7. Tyler McQuarrie (2 Wins)
1. 2010 Las Vegas
2. 2011 Irwindale Speedway

7. Justin Pawlak (2 Wins)
1. 2011 Streets of Long Beach
2. 2011 Palm Beach International Raceway

10. Ken Gushi (1 Win)
1. 2005 Houston

10. Calvin Wan (1 Win)
1. 2005 Infineon Raceway (Sonoma

10. Yukinobu Okubo (1 Win)
1. 2006 Evergreen Speedway

10. Mitsuru Haraguchi (1 Win)
1. 2007 Streets of Long Beach

10. Toshiki Yoshioka (1 Win)
1. 2008 Las Vegas

10. Darren McNamara (1 Win)
1. 2009 Wall Speedway

10. Stephan Verdier (1 Win)
1. 2009 Infineon Raceway (Sonoma)

10. Conrad Grunewald (1 Win)
1. 2011 Wall Speedway

A great day at the track for Final Fight really set the tone for the main event. Joey Redmond shot the quick gallery documenting some great driving from qualifying today. The paddock was buzzing with stories today and Sam Hubinette put on a champion performance in qualifying today. Stay tuned as Justin Kaehler is taking the reigns tomorrow in the photography department.
Check out the Gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=268

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

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

Sam Hubinette was recently spotted drifting the flame-shooting chopped up Maybach in Kanye West’s “Otis” video, and it would appear that he has returned again with his own vehicles for the new Berner music video featuring Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa.

The video for “Yoko” features Sam Hubinette’s Dodge Challenger, as well as the Dean Kearney’s V-LED Dodge Viper drifting around Irwindale Speedway. There’s even a cameo appearance by Mike Ryan and his Freightliner drift truck which we saw drifting during halftime at Formula Drift Round 6 in Las Vegas.

Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgKwR8IuI6Y

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.

The new song released yesterday by Kanye West x Jay-Z called Otis features the most amazing modified car I have ever seen in a music video. Granted Kanye has a track record with brilliant vehicles including his Czech supercar he brought out for a music video in his last album. The man actually driving this flame shooting limo is none other than Formula D champion Sam Hubinette. If he ever returns to Formula Drift (we have been told in Las Vegas) we cannot wait to talk with him about driving this thing around in the video.

Watch the video: http://youtu.be/BoEKWtgJQAU

The famous SEMA unveil we leaked back in 2008 featuring the new Dodge Challenger has hit the auction block at eBay now. The car has no bids (we are not shocked) with a starting point of $99,000. The news gets worse when you dig into the post and read this, “It presently is a rolling chassis with drive train and suspension, as well as all body molds. Anticipated cost to finish project is approximately $35,000.00.”While we promoted Taka Aono selling his AE86 yesterday as a great deal I think this is the exact opposite. Sadly due to the passing of Shawn Carlson this car never touched a wheel on a Formula Drift track.

The advertisement does note that the car comes with a NASCAR Garry Stanton A8 Sprint Car engine along with a G-Force transmission. The car still has it’s roller blade wheel rear end along with most of the items it was displayed at SEMA with. You have 5 days t0 get your bids in!

Buy It Now: eBay.com