Justin Pawlak started off the 2013 season with a new team and a big hit in his first qualifying pass. He just went into the turn 10 entry wall to deep and crashed in a similar fashion to Darren McNamara’s 2012 Long Beach crash that totaled his Saturn Sky. Well with a new crew they put the car back together before his second qualifying pass and put him into the Saturday show.
The first weekend of the Manufacturers Championship kicked off at Long Beach which is one of the two new championships replacing the Tires.com Triple Crown. To qualify as a manufacture your car must have an engine that matches manufactures with your chassis. This means someone like Dai Yoshihara doesn’t accumulate points but a motor swapped driver like Ryan Tuerck with his Scion FR-S will. Here is how the Top 5 look after Long Beach. Special thanks to Jacob Leveton for helping us with the calculation.
1. Ford- 146.5 points
2. Nissan- 137 points
2. BMW- 137 points
3. Scion- 126 points
4. Lexus- 111 points
Just before Irwindale Speedway this weekend the Detroit auto maker Ford has announced it will become an official Formula Drift partner in 2013. The brand has been involved with Formula Drift since 2005 and took home a championship with Vaughn Gittin Jr. in 2010. If all goes well this weekend they will be putting away a second championship for the car maker.
Even Wrecked Magazine purchased a Ford this year for a project collaboration with ACT Clutch and Fuelculture . This 2013 Ford Mustang RTR might be the most fun car money can buy on the market right now and we just cannot get enough of our project car which will be at the 2012 SEMA show next month with Energy Suspension. Ford is the second car marker to work with Formula Drift at an official level and we cannot wait to see what this partnership will bring the sport next year.
A few months ago we got together with ACT Clutch and came up with this great plan for a project 2013 Ford Mustang. With help from Sunrise Ford we walked out the door with a 2013 Ford Mustang GT in Sterling Grey with huge plans in the near future. If you follow us on Facebook you might of seen a few sneak previews of the car already posted. Our first stop once we picked the car up was ACT Clutch in Lancaster, California for a new clutch!
They did about a week of R&D with the car and wound up giving us the first 2013 kit which was part number FM13-HDSS with a combination of the XACT flywheel in our car. The clutch/flywheel combination really retains a stock feel with just a much smaller engagement area compared to the stock product. Now we just need more horsepower in our 5.0L and this project will be underway. Stay tuned and let us know what trouble/hooning you would like us to see get into with our new project Mustang. Here is the product being installed at ACT:
The Foxbody Ford Mustang of Yves Faber is up for sale on the Driftworks website. This car won the IDS drift championship in 2010 and was then rebuilt in 2010 by famous German company ACS in Stuttgart (engine builder for several Ford Cup’s as Fiesta and Puma). The asking price is 19,900 Euros. Watch the car in action with an older paint/look attacking a hill climb. Below the video is the for sale link.
Buy this Drift Car: http://www.driftworks.com/forum/drift-cars-sale-private-sales/183221-smoky-fox-sale.html
At a super secret location in Long Beach right now Vaughn Gittin Jr. is unveiling his 2013 Ford Mustang. If you know your dive bars in the area you might be able to track them down but hte car looks pretty awesome. This is leaps/bounds over his older vehicle looks but appears much of the sponsors and car build are the same. The 2013 GT still features the a rear radiator setup and bright green HRE wheels. What do you think of the new 2013 Ford Mustang? Can Vaughn Gittin Jr. start off his 2012 season better than the last one?
The boys from Falken Tire are out at Charlotte Motor Speedway beginning their 2012 testing. From whats been seen so far its just Vaughn Gittin Jr, Justin Pawlak, and Darren McNamarra rocking the teal and blue. The Mustangs front ends have also been switched over to the new 2013 Mustang fronts. The ASD team was seen testing at Lowes Motor Speedway and some photos of the 2013 chassis of JTP have been going around. Notice how pushed out his front wheel/tire setup basically outside the fender. Looks like those guys have some interesting things cooking.
The 2012 season will be adding another Ford Mustang in the drift world with the help of BMI Racing. Due to Mazda retiring the Rx-8 they have put the car away and focused on this Mustang build. The Mustang will have a 5.0L coyote motor with a 2.9L Whipple supercharger. Sarah Burgess will be back driving the car in 2012 but the PR they issued doesn’t make a mention of where they will be competing with the new Mustang. They do have some notable partners such as Ford Racing, Aeromotive Fuel Systems, and SPEC Clutch.
Well the drifting world started a little pre Christmas buzz and now has checked out for the holiday week we bet. Regardless of the holidays Ford is still putting on the Tournament of Ovals which has seen Vaughn Gittin Jr. defeat Tanner Foust along with other Ford superstars. Today he is pitted up against NHRA legend John Force and needs every vote the drift community can swing him. So follow the FB link below and cast a vote for the 2010 Formula D champion.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/OfficialFordRacing?v=app_213889628641298
