KW Suspension shows off its 2013 drift team including Chris Forsberg, Dai Yoshihara, Ken Gushi, Ryan Tuerck, and Matt Powers round out the big 2013 team. This interview highlights the team, the changes they made to programs in the new year, and what KW suspension they are running. Sit back and enjoy what the team has to say.
We sent out David Moore to also capture the action that was happening at Streets of Long Beach. The veteran motorsports shooter traveled around the Streets of Long Beach capturing all the moments from a unique perspective. We really enjoyed all of his images he put together from Round 1.
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The 2013 season is underway with an intense but very long and delayed qualifying session. Justin Pawlak wrecked his first run and got his car back and rallied to a 23rd place. Tyler McQuarrie snuck in at 32nd after 0 practice time and two blown steering racks on his Camaro. He is not spending the night swapping engines in the car.
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Matt Powers and the Driftparty released some passenger camera footage from his drift day with Steve Aoki that just recently took place. The event was Nitto Tire Steve Aoki Birthday Bash which they held at the Long Beach Convention Center with Matt Powers and his Formula Drift competition car. Matt was even bold enough to let Steve get behind the wheel of his comp car during the event. The video footage is all ReplayXD camera footage captured by Matt during the event.
Watch the video: http://vimeo.com/54345241
Our Project Mustang has been under the knife since we picked it up in July with visits to Paxton supercharger, Energy Suspension, ACT Clutch, and many others getting R&D parts for her big debut at the 2012 SEMA Show. We will be revisiting some of the installations on the car coming up but we put her together for a the Mustangs at Queen Mary Show in Long Beach, California. Tony Brakohiapa had his Formula Drift car in the K&N booth along with Vaughn Gittin Jr. who was doing autograph signings all day in the RTR Mustang booth.
Above is some product previews of our front Wilwood brake kit, Steeda suspension, and Paxton supercharger on the car. Here are some other pictures from the show. Vaughn Gittin Jr. even stopped by to check out our Mustang and we staged some photographs:
The 2012 Formula Drift look book was put together by Linhbergh and our gallery features 60 images shot for the 2012 clothing now available from Formula Drift. The gallery features images all around Long Beach, California (where Formula Drift HQ is located) and features co-founder Ryan Sage and sales/marketing man Bryan Olfert from Formula Drift as well.
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Formula Drift drivers Jeff Jones and 2011 Rookie of the Year Odi Bakchis were at the Just Drift event this weekend having a blast with some tandem video competition. The video is led by Jeff Jones in his CX Racing 240sx and shot by Larry Chen. This is a great video piece that should be getting you excited for the 2012 Formula Drift season at Streets of Long Beach.
The Long Beach, California weather is a 30% chance of precipitation during the hours of 12pm and 6pm. The weather people have a 30% chance of rain at 12:00pm and that percentage stays consistent through 6:00pm. This has been the same percent since early today. It’s going to be cold regardless of if the rain comes in Long Beach tomorrow.
Now, before you get all crazy the weather for Saturday’s main event looks to be sunny skies but Friday’s qualifying session might get some rain. This would really spice up the rankings and I am quite excited about this prospect. The chance of precipitation is 40% for the afternoon currently. We will keep a tab on the Long Beach weather but carnage, slow speed technical driving, and the luck of a draw perhaps to start off the new season.
The 2011 season has arrived and Ricky Cervantes was on the scene to capture these images and some video (coming later tonight) from Media Day. Chris Forsberg looked spot on in his new chassis and Conrad Grunewald looked decent in his Chevrolet Camaro as well. Joon Maeng had some great runs in the Rx-8 while others like Alex Pfeiffer didn’t look so hot along with Michael Essa who crashed his Z4 (more on this in a follow up post). Ryan Tuerck also took the rear end off his car passing the second turn of the course after going wide on his line up into the horseshoe.
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