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Starting as a driver in 2015 this would be your path to FD:  1. You would start driving on a local level anywhere that hosts events. 2. Once you have advanced beyond your local group you can move into a Pro Am environment. Right now the options are Evergreen Drift (Washington), Golden Gate...

Jim Liaw came out to announce a global Formula Drift schedule with an official merger of the USA and Asia series. Bringing together team registration, media registration, and rulebook under one umbrella for 2014. In 2015 a Formula Drift World Championship series will come to play. A minimum of...

To finish up the 2013 Formula Drift season privateer Pat Goodin finished as the highest ranked Falken driver at Irwindale Speedway. Pat Goodin won the Falken Cup which was a privateer prize for the top ranked Falken privateer. Now, they are flying out Pat Goodin to Las Vegas for the SEMA show...

In the 1st Formula Drift event at Texas Motor Speedway Vaughn Gittin Jr takes home the top qualifying spot. The rest of the qualifying results and Top 32 match ups are below. 1. V. Gittin 2. F. Aasbo 3. C. Forsberg 4. F. Wang 5. O. Bakchis 6. D. Yoshihara 7. M. Essa 8. P. Mordaunt 9. C. Denofa...

As a follow-up to our post about Daigo Saito and Ryan Tuerck not making weight in Seattle, we sought out some additional information about the tire-to-weight rule to better clarify how everything works. After our initial post went live, we got the official weight class list back from FD...

Ever since Formula D added Evergreen Speedway to the calendar in 2006, there has been more carnage in the Final Four at Evergreen than at any other track. For four of the first five years at the track, a major crash happened in the final four every single year. From Okubo and Yamamoto colliding...

*The following post was guest written by someone close to the SWD series that we verified with references. They requested to be anonymous for the following blog post. The post doesn’t reflect the views of our staff just the guest author.*  With Streetwise Drifting concluding Round 3 of their...

Below you can update yourself with the sporting regulations book based on “competition time outs” which is formerly known as the five minute rule. All the drivers took a vote in New Jersey and gave the green light to using your competition timeout in qualifying. After speaking to Formula Drift...

The Streetwise Drift series kicked off this weekend the day after Formula Drift Round 2 with a big event at Gresham Motorsports Park. Kelsey Rowlings who we interviewed in Issue 25 qualified 6th but spun out in her Top 16 tandem run. Brandon Wicknick left Road Atlanta on Saturday and landed a...

Photo Credit: Larry Chen Here is what happened from my perspective. It obviously was an Insane situation for Both me and Fredric. From inside the car here is what I saw and feel happened. I initiated along with Fredric, then all of a sudden the rear of his car was coming back towards me...

Matt Powers drove his Fatlace / Nitto Tire S14 to the win in the first ever Motegi Superdrift Challenge, narrowly defeating Mike Essa’s GSR Autosports BMW E46 in the final. Walker Wilkerson earned 3rd place by default due to Freddy Aasbo crashing out in his battle with Powers in the top 4. 1st...

With the first round out of the way, Dai Yoshihara leads the points by taking the win along with earning top qualifier. 2012 champion Daigo Saito sits in 10th place after getting knocked out in the round of 16 by Freddy Aasbo, matching his worst finish from 2012. JR was the last champion to win...

The other new championship for 2013 is the Tire Manufacturers championship, where the top two finishers on each tire company earn points for their sponsor. All drivers are eligible for these points, regardless of whether they are sponsored by the manufacturer or just buying the tires. Falken has...

The first weekend of the Manufacturers Championship kicked off at Long Beach which is one of the two new championships replacing the Tires.com Triple Crown. To qualify as a manufacture your car must have an engine that matches manufactures with your chassis. This means someone like Dai Yoshihara...

What a day we had to kick off the 2013 season at a gloomy Long Beach day. The sun vanished and really good tandem battles took place all day setting quite a ton for the 2013 season. The most memorable battle by far was Daigo Saito and Fredric Aasbo which saw Aasbo take the in one crazy double...

Let’s start off with the good news is that Formula Drift has banned all exterior mounted cameras for the Saturday of Formula Drift for the 2013 season with the obvious exception of Formula Drift TV. Hopefully any violators will have their cameras auctioned off to the fans at the lowest price...

Here is the official list of drivers who are paid and ready to head out for Streets of Long Beach. You will notice an absense of Rhys Millen but an addition of an open wheel racing star. Please remember that the * denotes anyone who is eligible for rookie of the year in 2013. Saito, Daigo...

So the new Option Video talks to the world about his NASCAR powered Dodge Viper heading to the D1GP series in 2013. While we don’t have a translation on the video we got some tips from an article at Enginelabs.com telling us about the motor set to power this Dodge Viper. The article talks...

. WiseFab hooked up with Dmitry Illyuk in his Monster Energy/Kenda Tire S-chassis to test and talk about the development of the all new Wisefab kit made to be Formula Drift and worldwide series legal. They modified the top of the shock to come out from the factory holes and a camber plate which...

Issue 25 of Wrecked Magazine highlights all the newly Formula Drift licensed drivers of 2013! We highlight Dan Savage, Nate Hamilton, Tyler Wolfson, and an additional 20+ drifters who are making moves for the 13 season. We install an ACT Clutch in our 2013 Ford Mustang RTR and let people know...