Formula DRIFT or Formula D is the premier United States drifting series. Formula Drift, Inc. was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sag...

About Formula Drift

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Formula DRIFT or Formula D is the premier United States drifting series. Formula Drift, Inc. was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage in 2003 as a sister company to the now defunct Slipstream Global Marketing, the same partnership that introduced D1 Grand Prix to the United States. The new entity would solely own, operate and launch the first official drifting series in North America. 2014 will be Formula Drift's eleventh year of competition.
With more than 60+ currently licensed drivers competing [1], Formula Drift is recognized as the premier North American professional drifting championship series. The series consists of a seven round championship played out at race tracks across the United States. Judged on execution and style, rather than who finishes the course in the fastest time, Formula Drift brings together traditional racing and extreme sports.
Formula Drift works closely with a huge variety of endemic and non-endemic business partners from energy drinks to the military. Most notably Formula Drift works with the largest amount of tire suppliers to a single series. Achilles, Falken, Hankook, Maxxis, Kenda, Nitto, GT Radial, and Yokohama all work together to supply teams and develop test their products.

Drivers

List of competing drivers in Formula Drift

  • Tanner Foust Rockstar Energy 2013 Scion Si, World Drift Champion, Formula D Section 7 champ
  • Brad Predmore Rockstar Energy 1999 S14
Category:Formula D drivers
  • Nick Zoccoli Rockstar Energy Racing 2005 so Monte carlo. 2012 Arizona Grand national Champion. XGAMES title holder. And District 4 division title holder.

Home

Formula Drift is home to 60+ professional drift drivers. The competition for Formula Drift licenses is intense. Drivers in the U.S. can compete in a number of regionally sanctioned Pro-Am series for licensing.
Winners and high finishers of these feeders series are then able to enter the Formula DRIFT Pro 2 series, a secondary national tour where they compete to move up to the main series.

Abroad

Drivers from around the world have set their sights on Formula Drift as the series of choice world wide in which to compete. This also includes the legions of talented drivers from Japan, who have competed previously in the D1 Grand Prix. Other drivers who crossed over to Formula Drift from foreign series are the Irish drivers Darren McNamara, James Deane, Eric O'Sullivan, and Dean Kearney. These drivers rose to acclaim in their European home series before making the move stateside.

Tracks

Current Tracks

Former Tracks

International Presence

Formula Drift has increased its international presence every year since 2008 with the addition of demonstration and sister series in other countries. "Taking the Formula Drift brand internationally is a huge milestone. Our priority is to continue to build the Series here while growing the sport of drifting as a whole," said Jim Liaw, president and co-founder of Formula Drift. "We are very careful in choosing our event partners and take careful consideration of the boundaries of our international affiliates such as Drift Australia, MSC, and Pro Drift."[1]

Sister Series

Formula Drift Asia. Formula Drift Asia was created in 2008 with the inaugural FD Singapore competition. The first real international competition of its in Asia, held at the Changi Air Show Grounds. This historic event was sold out before the gates opened. Since then, Formula Drift Asia became its own championship series, the first Pan-Asian professional drifting championship. In 2009 and 2010, the Championship made stops in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. For the 2011/2012 Championship tour, Formula Drift Asia added an additional stop in Indonesia.
FD Asia web site.
The first Formula Drift Asia Champion was Tengku Djan.
Formula D Australia. The series was announced in June 2005. Formula D Australia visited three tracks in 2005.
The series was held in conjunction with the DRIFT Australia Championship. After the season, the series' website was no longer updated, and has since been taken down.

Exhibition Events

Regulations

Formula Drift has continued to refine its rulebook and technical regulations year to year in terms of car and competition regulations.

Car eligibility

Cars and their builds are constantly under review by the Formula Drift staff. The rule book is revised every year to promote fair and exciting drifting. Some cars and practices are written out of the rule book in order to keep a realistic and level playing field. During the 2004 season, the Dodge Viper Competition Coupe was permitted to compete, whereas it was ineligible in Formula Drift.
Although Formula Drift does not permit front-wheel drive cars, it does allow all-wheel drive cars to be converted to rear wheel drive, such as the Subaru WRX and Mitsubishi EVO. In the United States, the Scion tC is sold only in the FWD layout, but because it shares the same chassis as the AWD Toyota Avensis (sold only in the United Kingdom and Europe), it can be converted to a competition-ready RWD layout.
A trademark of Formula D competition car's is the very open engine rulebook. Formula Drift allows engines from other manufacturers to be swapped into competition cars. "Engine, transmission, ECU and/or final drive modifications are free, but only the rear wheels may propel the vehicle". This results in a huge variety of engine/chassis combinations as well as huge power outputs commonly in excess of 850+ whp. Vehicles wishing to compete for the Manufacturers Championship must use an engine from the same manufacturer as the chassis. Engine swaps remain very common with older models but can be seen with new builds as well. Normally aspirated Chevrolet V8 engines are often used because of their availability and lower operating costs.
Suspension modification is widely open to development as long as stock pickup locations are utilized. Suspension tuning is a vital part of any successful Formula D team.
To keep cars in check Formula D institutes a maximum tire size based on the vehicles total weight.
Formula Drift cars are given fixed numbers for their cars and are not necessarily based on rankings.

Scoring and judging

Formula D uses its own scoring system that may differ from other drifting organizations. Often scoring systems for qualifying, tandem battles, and penalties are different.
Qualifying - Formula D competitors are allowed two non-consecutive judged solo runs to post their highest possible score in order to compete. The top 32 drivers with the highest qualifying scores are entered in a competition bracket pairing the highest scoring drivers against the lowest scoring drivers. 1st v. 32nd, 2nd v. 31st, 3rd v. 30th, etc. The drivers are judged on line, speed, angle, and overall impact. The judges can also make additional request at the drivers meeting for actions or techniques that will weigh in their decision making (ex; entry technique, racing line, proximity, etc.). Formula D drivers are scored on a points-deduction system where every driver will start their judged run with a perfect score of 100 pts. For every mistake, points will be deducted. These points will vary between .25 point to the most severe mistakes (-1.75).[2]
Competition - The top 32 qualifying drivers are paired up in an elimination bracket pairing the highest scoring drivers against the lowest scoring drivers. The biggest difference from qualifying is that now drivers face off head to head on the track in a tandem battle. The two cars run together side by side, each driver trying to show greater skill than the other. The highest qualifying driver leads on the first run, then on the second run the lower qualifying driver leads. Drivers are judged on the same basic criteria as qualifying but an emphasis is put on the interaction between the two drivers competing head to head. The lead driver will set the pace and driving line often trying to produce a gap between themselves and the following driver. The following driver will try to stay on top of the lead driver as close as possible without making contact with their vehicle. The goal is to mimic or "shadow" the lead drivers run while staying on their door throughout the run. It is possible for either driver to win either run. Often one driver will have a points advantage going into the second run. Driver mistakes (ex. 2 wheels off course, spinning out, avoidable contact, etc.) can also cause them to be given an automatic zero. The 3 judge panel then will look at both runs and determine one of three outcomes; Driver 1 advances, Driver 2 advances, or if a winner can not be determined a "One More Time" will be called. In the event of a "One More Time" the drivers will then complete a new pair of runs. The drivers will face off again until a winner can be determined. The winner advance to the next bracket.
Competition Time Out - Drivers have a one-time option to utilize a "Competition Time Out" in order to attempt to fix their vehicle. In the event that a driver or car can not come to the start line in time for their tandem run the other driver will be allowed to run a solo lap to advance.
Overtaking - Formula D rules are structured so as not to encourage drivers to overtake their opponents; doing so incurs a penalty. Overtaking is only permitted when the lead car makes a mistake such as coming to a complete stop or going completely off course.[2]
The current judges are Andy Yen, Ryan Lanteigne, and Brian Eggert. Doug Artus is the Race Manager for the series.[2]

Formula Drift Champions

US

ASIA

Honors

Rookie of the Year

Most Improved Driver

Driver of the Year

Hardest Charging Driver

Spirit of Drifting

Superstar of the Year

Best Drifting Style

Best Personal Style

Best Looking Car

  • 2011 United States Matt Field's S14[3]

Crew Member of the Year

  • 2011 Japan Mike Kojima[3]
  • 2012 Japan Mike Kojima[8]
  • 2014 United States Brian Wilkerson

Team Manager of the Year

Comeback of the Year

Fan Favorite

All-time Formula Drift event winners list

  1. Sweden Samuel Hübinette - 9 wins (2004 at Road Atlanta, Houston, and Infineon; 2005 at Road Atlanta and Chicago; 2006 at Long Beach, Chicago and Wall Speedway; 2007 at Summit Point)
  2. United States Chris Forsberg - 8 wins (2005 at Irwindale; 2007 at Road Atlanta and Infineon; 2008 at Long Beach; 2009 at Road Atlanta and Seattle; 2013 at Seattle; 2014 at Long Beach)
  3. Japan Daijiro Yoshihara - 8 wins (2006 at Irwindale; 2007 at Seattle and Wall Speedway; 2010 at Road Atlanta and Wall Speedway; 2011 at Road Atlanta and Monroe; 2013 at Long Beach)
  4. United States Tanner Foust - 7 wins (2006 at Road Atlanta; 2007 at Irwindale; 2008 at Englishtown and Sonoma; 2009 at Las Vegas; 2010 at Seattle and Irwindale)
  5. New Zealand Rhys Millen - 7 wins (2004 at Irwindale; 2005 at Wall; 2006 at Infineon; 2008 at Road Atlanta and Seattle; 2011 at Las Vegas; 2012 at Las Vegas)
  6. United States Vaughn Gittin, Jr. - 7 wins (2008 at Irwindale; 2010 at Long Beach and Sonoma; 2012 at Wall Speedway; 2012 at Seattle; 2014 at Road Atlanta and Miami)
  7. Japan Daigo Saito - 6 wins (2012 at Palm Beach and Irwindale; 2013 at Road Atlanta, Wall Speedway and Irwindale; 2014 at Irwindale)
  8. United States Justin Pawlak - 4 wins (2011 at Long Beach and Palm Beach; 2012 at Long Beach and Road Atlanta)
  9. United States Ryan Tuerck - 2 wins (2009 at Long Beach and Irwindale)
  10. United States Tyler McQuarrie - 2 wins (2010 at Las Vegas; 2011 at Irwindale)
  11. United States Michael Essa - 2 wins (2013 at Palm Beach and Texas)
  12. Republic of Ireland Darren McNamara - 2 wins (2009 at Wall Speedway; 2014 at Monroe)
  13. Norway Fredric Aasbø - 2 wins (2014 at Wall Speedway and Texas)
One win each for:
  1. Japan Ken Gushi (2005 at Houston)
  2. Hong Kong Calvin Wan (2005 at Infineon)
  3. Japan Yukinobu Okubo (2006 at Seattle)
  4. Japan Mitsuru Haraguchi (2007 at Long Beach)
  5. Japan Toshiki Yoshioka (2008 at Las Vegas)
  6. France Stephan Verdier (2009 at Infineon)
  7. United States Conrad Grunewald (2011 at Wall Speedway)

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