Formula DRIFT Announces Driver List for Abu Dhabi Event
A diverse selection of the top drivers from around the globe will showcase world-class drifting to the Middle East.
A diverse selection of the top drivers from around the globe will showcase world-class drifting to the Middle East.
Formula DRIFT has announced the official 2011 Pro Championship Schedule of Events. Palm Beach International Raceway has been added to the list of venues and will host Round 3 on June 3-4, 2011.
Michael Essa wins the Gymkhana Grid burnout contest with an incredible run in his E60 V10 BMW M5 powered “350R” pro drift car.
SCCA and time attack racers were parked next to show vehicles that could barely fit credit cards between their tires and wheel wells.
The all-wheel drive class was led by Ken Block’s Gymkhana 3 Ford Fiesta and Tanner Foust’s X-Games/Rallycross Ford Fiesta.
The all-new Scion is one of the first turbocharged models in the US thanks to Descendant Racing (330whp), has big custom Brembo brakes, a full cage..
Abu Dhabi Added To The List of International Events
We talk with Formula Drift and time attack driver Kyle Mohan at Ken Block’s Gymkhana Grid event. Mohan’s ride is a 400hp turbocharged rotary FC3S Mazda RX-7 racecar that is also used in drift and time attack.
The Mazdatrix crew left the RX-8’s Renesis 13B-MSP internally stock but bolted on the aforementioned ProCharger supercharger kit with a front-mount intercooler and all the requisite plumbing.
The Wankel is pressurized via a Turbonetics GTK 550 turbo that can support 475 to 625 horsepower. In its current trim, this FC Mazda RX-7 produces 490whp and 339 lb/ft of torque.
Inside Ken Block’s Gymkhana Three Ford Fiesta during some pre-video release testing at Hollywood Park. Watch as Block gives a ride to Formula Drift star Daijiro Yoshihara.
2010 FD Season Drifts To A Stellar Closing At The House Of Drift
Scion Racing and its two Formula Drift sponsored drivers, Tanner Foust and Ken Gushi. Foust drives a NASCAR V8-powered rear-wheel drive Scion tC and Gushi a 3S-GTE-powered tC.
For the third video, Block takes on L’Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery in France, which has a distinctively European feel to it and some massive banking. Block even demonstrates the banking’s steep 51-degree incline by standing on his Fiesta at an angle.
In the main event, the boiling weekend ultimately came down to a battle of the V8s. Making the final four for his first time, Tony Brakohiapa in the Cooper Tire / BSP Tuskegee Airmen Mustang went up against 2010 season points leader Vaughn Gittin Jr. in the Monster Energy / Falken Tire Ford Mustang for third place.
Let the comment bashing begin. Unlike NBC, History Channel is not backing out of their plans for a US version of the UK Top Gear TV show. They’ve recently released this trailer for the show and the promo shows off the three hosts and a sample challenge that they will be taking part in – moonshine running.
Skidplate racing combines cheap cars with all the fun that can be had with a extended rental insurance policy. This of this as LeMons meets drifting meets Coors Light.
Crowds regularly pack the D1GP’s temporary urban and track courses to see the hopped up drift machines go sideways with techniques that show why the Japanese made up this sport in the first place.
Opening before the final time attack run sessions of the second day, the drifting competition was an invitation-only heads up battle that promised to feature the best Australian drifters.