“TAngelo Racing is happy to announce a return to drifting in 2012 with factory support from Scion Racing. After three years as a Formula Drift judge and technical manager, Tony’s long awaited return to competition is met with personal excitement and lots of hype from his fans.
Tony will be driving the #33 Scion Tc from 2011, with a whole new look and feel. The crew will consist of drifting favorites, “DA Aces” Lindsay Ross as spotter, and Mike “Carluch” Edwards wrenching on the car. While Tony has been keeping active in overseas competition and driving with “Bloodmasters,” a drifting gang producing explosive missile car videos out of Englishtown, NJ, he’s psyched to return to FD competition.
“I couldn’t be more excited to get back into the drivers seat for 2012,” Tony said. “Scion is a brand that is very active in drifting, and is doing really fun things for 2012. I’ve always been impressed by their presence in FD, and I am totally pumped to be part of the Scion Racing Family.”
In case you ever tried to convince someone that drifting wasn’t just full of hooligan kids doing random hood-rat shit in the time between robbing liquor stores and mugging old ladies then please don’t show them this video. All joking aside this Bloodmasters Part 1 video shows off some intense skill and entertainment all focused around Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey. The video features some Formula Drift drivers such as Ryan Tuerck, Chris Forsberg, and Tony Angelo who all seem to be driving “missile” car S13′s as they slam into each other, parts of the track, and about anywhere else you could think of around the race course. My favorite part of the video falls around 3:13 when they have a five car tandem (two cars going one direction on the track and three going the other way) all at the same time. This is shown in screen capture three above. Follow the link after the video to see a full list of credits for the Bloodmasters Bloodbath Part 1 video.
The Scion Racing tC that ran with Ken Gushi and Hankook Tires for 2011 might not be retired from the sport after all. The rumormill is abuzz this weekend that Drift Alliance member Tony Angelo will be given the tC to run his 2012 season. Not really sure of the Scion tC will have 100% factory support like it did in 2011 with Ken Gushi but we can imagine some of the vehicle sponsors are coming along with the former Formula Drift judge for 2012. This sounds like a great start to the new season for a driver who hasn’t been behind the wheel in Formula Drift for several years. What do you think about Tony Angelo driving this Scion tC?
The team is half street gang and half missile drift crew which is composed of several Drift Alliance Members, a few Drift ALliance Aces, all mixed in with a few new bloods of the sport. The video boasts Ryan Tuerck, Chris Forsberg, and Tony Angelo tearing up Englishtown Raceway in what has to be one of the best drifting videos we have seen in a long time. While the Drift Alliance these days is all but dead (except for Rhys Millen joining the team) this just marks the feeling of 2004 Drift Alliance or dare I say the “Bad As Hell” days. Sit back and enjoy one awesome drifting video.
Tony Angelo announced his retirement from the judges stand and a return to driving in 2012 last night at the 2011 Formula Drift banquet. The blog post has turned into a hot buzz of talk who people think should be his replacement in the hot seat. Who do you think should take the judges stand next year and why!? If we can get a few names said over and over again we will launch a poll later in the week.
The Formula Drift 2011 Awards Banquet has kicked off, and right off the bat dropped a bombshell of a story: Tony Angelo will not be returning as Judge and Technical Manager for the 2012 Season. He has mentioned getting back behind the wheel, however did not mention a ride or major sponsor for 2012.
Ryan Tuerck headed over to Belarus for the weekend to drive Tony Angelo’s old LeMans tribute Mazda Rx-8 at the FX Open series. The last time we saw this car drifting it up in Belarus the rear wheels had a hard time staying on when being drifted by Formula Drift judge Tony Angelo. Hopefully Ryan Tuerck has some better luck in the Mazda. We will update on you on how Ryan Tuerck performs for the weekend in what was the old green/orange LeMans Mazda. Hopefully it won’t wind up like the Chevrolet Camaro at Wall Stadium.
More Clubloose content coming from NJMP that took place last weekend. Formula Drift star Ryan Tuerck brought out his S13 missile car and produced this video (edited it himself) about the fun he had over the weekend at the event. Formula Drift judge Tony Angelo also brought out a missile car and joined the fun.
Once again our top east coast reported Dan Jenkins went out to New Jersey to cover the guys over at Clubloose having a great old time. This event was the first time they were able to slide on New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP). The drifting took place before a Memorial Day Air Show for the crowds. Another great job by the Clubloose boys and the local northeastern drifting scene. Ryan Tuerck and Tony Angelo showed up in missile cars to go sliding for the weekend as well.
Wrecked Magazine takes you international with Line Production shooting EEDC Round 1. They just kicked off the 2011 season with a great video you can check out here on the website. Your even going to see Kristaps Blushs driving Tony Angelo’s old racing heritage Mazda Rx-8 in this piece.
