Former Prodrift Ireland and European Champion James Deane has just announced that he will compete at the first round of Formula D in Long Beach, at the wheel of the Falken Tires S15. The drive has been provided to him with the support of Falken Tires USA, MCNSport and WKD Imports. This brings the number of Irish drivers to four, all current and former
Hot off the press, current Prodrift Super Series champion Dean 'Karnage' Kearney will compete in the 2010 Formula D championship. Rumours of the move increased when Dean put his championship winning S13 Onevia up for sale mid-week. It's now offficial,check out the links below for more details on the announcement - Paddy Intec Racing Dean
Mad Mike Whiddett has been on quite the roll lately. After taking the NZDrift championship in his home country, he traveled to Thailand last weekend for the inaugural Formula Drift event there. Driving his tried and true Madbul RX7, Mad Mike defeated Ryuji Miki to take the top podium spot in Thailand. Veteran driver Tengku Djan took the final podium
This just in! My email notifier just popped up on my screen, with a message from Formula D's John P: Formula DRIFT Announces New 32 car Head-to-Head Competition Format for 2009 Season Long Beach, Calif. - March 16, 2009 - Formula DRIFT will be implementing a Top 32 tandem competition format for the 2009 season. The Top 32 tandem format will replace
Speedhunter Vaughn Gittin Jr. just sent us a small teaser photo of his new 2010 Mustang drift car that he will be driving next year. The teaser may not reveal a whole lot, but it won't be too much longer until the full car is revealed next week on live Speed TV ahead of the car's official debut at the LA Auto Show. To see the car on Speed, November
Just a quick heads-up for our North American Speedhunters. Speed TV's coverage of Formula D debuts this weekend at 4pm EST Sunday afteroon. The hour long programme featuresRound 1 from Long Beach. The programme will be repeated during the week and a new episode will air the following Sunday, all the way through to Christmas. Meanwhile, if you're
When you're playing the Craps tables in Las Vegas, my good friend Brian Urbano always says " always bet on the 8 and 6. " That appears to be true also at drifting events in Las Vegas, because late last night, legendary AE86 driver Toshiki Yoshioka from Team Droo-P piloted his AE86 with its normally aspirated (nitrous assisted) blacktop
Well it's official. Former D1 star and current Super GT driver Manabu "Max" Orido will be be competing in the upcoming Formula D event at Las Vegas behind the wheel of the Project Mu/3T Motorsport/Yokohama Tire JZS161 Aristo. It's been a while since Orido has competed in pro drifting so it will be very interesting to see how he does