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
After appearing in the '08 Red Bull Drift Championship, and last year's Formula D closer at Irwindale, Norwegian driver Fredric Aasbo is set to return to US competition at FD Long Beach 2010. Fredric will run with the support of a SoCal-based outfit called FSR Motorsports Creations. There's no word on whether he'll be running the full
The guys at Touge Factory/Proper+ are honoring the late Atsushi Kuroi by offering tribute stickers and t-shirts for sale on their website, with all proceeds being donated to Kuroi-san's family in Japan. The items will only be available for a short time, so head over now to the online store and show some support for Atsushi Kuroi. -Mike Garrett
Some more big news for Formula Drift today. Falken Tire has just announced the latest addition to their drift team for 2010 - Justin Pawlak. Justin will be driving an ASD-prepped 2010 Ford Mustang similar to Vaughn Gittin Jr.'s - making for two Mustangs on the Falken team. This is huge news for Team Falken, and a big move for JTP, who impressed
The Bergenholtz Racing RX8 is not only getting a new driver for the 2010 Formula Drift season, but a new sponsor and an exterior makeover. The car was unveiled this morning, as new driver Joon Maeng serenaded the streets of downtown Long Beach to the sounds of race-tuned rotary. Full Tilt Poker has jumped onboard as a primary sponsor for the team, and
Winter is finished and hibernation is over, whatever Punxatwany Phil has to say on the subject. At least in my world that is. This week down in Spain the Grand Prix Circus set out their stall for 2010. In Florida the Rolex 24 has been and gone, next up is the beginning of the NASCAR season. Best of all is the news in from the city some 120 miles West
Some very sad news out of Japan today. Veteran D1 driver Atsushi Kuroi has passed away after injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. Kuroi was popular not just in Japan, but in all the countries where he drove. Anyone who's seen him drive knows the kind of talent this man had behind the wheel of his Nissan One-Via. Besides being known as a
I just got back from the Formula Drift offices in downtown Long Beach where Bergenholtz Racing announced the new driver of their Mazda RX8 for the 2010 Formula Drift season. I arrived at the office to find some of my fellow media guys anticipating the big news. Who would be replacing Justin Pawlak in the Bergenholtz RX8 this year? Joey Redmond from
Some cool news announced for the 2010 Formula Drift season today. Our friends at Fatlace will be teaming up with Formula D to host the ONE OF ONE car show series at each event on the 2010 FD schedule. Here's hoping this will draw some great cars to the Formula D events around the country this year. The first one will be held at the season opener
At the end of TAS on friday I quickly headed to the Sun-eishobo stand, the publishers of Option magazine, as well as tons of other motoring related titles. I had to pick up a Hyper Rev book/catalogue for an Impreza-crazy friend back home in Italy and as I went to pay I noticed these two postcards on the counter. They are ads for a new magazine that