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  • Wet Final Round of the Wild 2022 Formula Drift Championship

    Wet Final Round of the Wild 2022 Formula Drift Championship

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    The 19th season of the Formula Drift Championship surprisingly ended similar to the way it began… with Matt Field’s Corvette stuffed into a wall and a Toyota/Papadakis Racing Driver on top of the box. It started back in April when Toyota debuted the all-new Toyota Corolla GR at Round 1: Formula Drift Long Beach. That’s…

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  • Formula Drift takes on St Louis in the heat

    Formula Drift takes on St Louis in the heat

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    Pro Rundown: St. Louis was a wild round of Formula Drift 2022, won by Kazuya Taguchi in his Up-Garage, ISR Performance, VR-38-powered GT86. This was the fifth round of the 19th season and the fifth consecutive different winner of 2022. Quite the contrast from last season, in which two drivers, Chelsea Denofa and Odi Bakchis,…

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  • Formula Drift is back in action and this Aston Martin Vantage is there to party

    Formula Drift is back in action and this Aston Martin Vantage is there to party

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    The 2022 season of Formula Drift kicked off in Long Beach this past weekend. Ryan Tuerck won the Pro class in his new GR Corolla. He finished just ahead of Matt Field and Odi Bakchis. A lot of usual suspects and their wicked machines were on hand, but there was one car in particular that…

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  • Recap: Formula Drift – SeattleA wild weekend in the PNW

    Recap: Formula Drift – Seattle
    A wild weekend in the PNW

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    It was a wild weekend in the Pacific Northwest for drifting. Perfect weather, crazy driving, carnage, and a vicious points race are a good way to kick off the second half of the the 2019 Formula Drift season. Rookie rock and roll I want to start off talking about the two rookies in the series…

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  • Formula Drift 2019: Long Beach recap

    Formula Drift 2019: Long Beach recap

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    The season 16 opening round of Formula Drift is now in the books after a weekend that seemed to go by in the blink of an eye. Great weather and hard driving summed up the weekend. Good times were had by many. That doesn’t make up for the havoc and destruction the walls of the…

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  • Watch Chelsea DeNofa serve up ALL of the angle

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    Say hello to Chelsea DeNofa. He’s part of the team running Ford Mustangs in the current season of Formula Drift. He’s also regularly posting to his own YouTube channel, where he delivers some great videos including several where he coaches drifting techniques. The video above is not one of those videos, but one captured by…

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  • Official Hooniversal Opinion: Drifting is Good

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    This past weekend was spent at the Gridlife South motorsport festival which hosted, among other wonderful things, dozens of drifters both professional and amateur. It was the first time I had ever seen [intentional] drifting in person and I got to witness it as a credentialed media “professional” stationed closer to the track than I…

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  • Capturing the madness at Formula Drift Long Beach

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    Last week I shot for my first full scale motorsports event. It was the Formula Drift Streets of Long Beach event. Here are some things someone looking to do the same should know beforehand.

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  • Driver on Driver: Episode 1 – Chris Forsberg

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    Presenting the first episode of Driver on Driver. Hosted by our friend Sam Nalven (aka Drift Idiot). Sam will interview different drivers each week as the 2015 Formula Drift Season rolls along. Up first? Machete owner and 2014 FD Champion Chris Forsberg

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  • The Drift Chronicles Part 2: What's in a Name

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    [Editor’s Note – You remember the gent calling himself the Drift Idiot? His name is Sam Nalven and he’s on a mission to chronicle the current Formula Drift season, and his goal isn’t simply to cover the event but instead to dive a bit deeper. Here then is the second in a series of videos…

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