Last weekend's Formula D event in Long Beach was a groundbreaking one in the fact that it introduced the new 32-car tandem format, something which was first seen at the Red Bull Drifting Wold Championship last year. Last night Rod showed an interesting perspective with his view from the judging tower, and now it's time to head down to track

So of you lot who were at the Long Beach Formula D... let me ask you this: what did you think of the judging and the Top 32 format? From my perspective, this was the best FD event I've been to. The judging seems spot on and the Top 32 format allowed some interesting upsets and tandem battle combinations. I think Ryan, Jim and company have really

By now you've probably heard all about what happened at the opening round of the '09 Formula Drift series in Long Beach - whether it was through our trackside Twitter updates ,or from the other media outlets that were covering the event. Needless to say, there were a lot of big stories on the Long Beach waterfront this weekend, including the

As I'm writing this post it's T-minus three days until Formula D kicks off in Long Beach and there a few more photos that I wanted to quickly share from last weekends preseason tech day and gathering at the Universal Technical Institute "way out" in Rancho Cucamonga. As i mentioned in yesterday's post, the car show portion of the

With the start of the Formula D season just a few days away, Formula D got together with the Universal Technical Institute to hold a preseason tech day on Saturday at the giant UTI campus in Rancho Cucamonga. After an uneventful drive down to SoCal and then a trip through the wonderful LA traffic out to Rancho Cucamonga, I arrived at UTI to have a look